Biography

Sayantani holds a Ph.D. in Economics (specializing in urban and public economics) from University of California, Irvine, completed in June 2023. As a Staff Economist at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Sayantani will be involved in housing policy research with the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and will be a part of the UCLA Anderson Forecasting Team.

Sayantani's paper, "Intercity Impacts of Work-from-Home with Both Remote and Non-Remote Workers", co-authored with Jan K. Brueckner, has been published at the Journal of Housing Economics: special issue on COVID-19 and Housing Markets.
You can read the paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101910

Among other projects, Sayantani is currently working on an empirical paper that analyzes the county-level response of the U.S. housing market to selective COVID-19 regulations.  The paper specifically focuses on the impact of shelter-in-place and eviction moratoria on housing sales and building permit approval.