Brian Y An
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Y An |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian Y |
| FAMILY NAME | An |
| SIGNATURE | AN B Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8945-6981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Trajectory of Rental Housing in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Natural disasters have been increasing in intensity while rental affordability has been declining in many cities. This article presents a new dataset at this intersection, merging rental outcomes with disaster incidence and government assistance. We construct two new panel models that estimate the effects of the natural disasters from 2000 to 2020 on zip codes across California and Florida. Results indicate that rents per unit increase by 0.2 to …
How Public School Districts’ Characteristics Relate to Their Students’ Postsecondary Intentions
In this study, we explore characteristics of public-school districts in the state of Iowa (USA) that contribute to high school graduates’ postsecondary intentions classified as either a four-year university (public or private), a community college, professional training (identified as private two-year or other training), employment or military, or other (homemaker or unknown). To explore this topic, we utilize census, population-level data associ…
Preservation of Affordable Rural Rental Properties by Understanding Owners, Managers, Subsidies, and the Local Market
Rural affordable housing preservation is a pressing policy issue due to subsidy expiration, aging properties, encroaching exurban growth, increasing property management challenges, and ownership succession uncertainties. Little research has been done on how ownership characteristics influence preservation outcomes. This study extends the literature on ownership type and scale impacts to the rural affordable housing field, by exploring multifamily…
Who Bears the Brunt of Disruptive Innovation? The Effect of Grocery E‐Commerce on Local Retail Competitors
The rising prominence of e‐commerce has raised concerns regarding its potential threat to local businesses. However, existing literature lacks substantial empirical evidence of the impact of e‐retailers due to its ambiguous service areas. Our study aims to address this gap by focusing on e‐grocery giants Amazon Fresh and Instacart to examine their influences on local brick‐and‐mortar businesses within the grocery retail industry. We leverage e‐gr…
Frontiers of weatherization
Low-income weatherization programs provide home energy efficiency upgrades to reduce utility costs, improve indoor comfort, and address the health and safety needs of income-constrained households. This review examines seventeen retrospective, outcome-focused evaluations of weatherization programs conducted over the past four decades to assess how program evaluation methods have evolved, where critical gaps remain, and how future studies can impr…
Uncovering neighborhood-level portfolios of corporate single-family rental holdings and community wealth loss
Who Owns America? A Methodology for Identifying Landlords’ Ownership Scale and the Implications for Targeted Code Enforcement
Problem, research strategy, and findings Scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in understanding who owns real estate in communities and resultant implications for targeted planning approaches. Yet, practitioners lack an efficient and comprehensive methodology to assess landlords’ ownership scale, namely, how many properties they own in each geographic area. The existence of variegated ownership, multiple legal entities, siloed da…
Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service
In recent years, public administration scholars have started paying attention to intersectionality of government workforce identities and its implications for diversity management. This study unpacks how the intersection of multiple identities increases the transaction costs inherent to underrepresentation by looking at employee engagement in uncompensated extra‐role behaviors and its effect on emotional exhaustion. Using a structural equation mo…
Global diffusion ofCovid‐19 policies
In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID‐19 pandemic, when vertical global governance plays a relatively minor role, government leaders must obtain policy information cues from other governments' behaviors horizontally. This study builds on the policy diffusion literature to examine the distinct role of geographic, cultural, and institutional peers in influencing a country's policy adoptions throughout a diffusion episode. We theorize th…
The Influence of Institutional Single-Family Rental Investors on Homeownership
The emergence of institutional single-family rental investors in local housing markets is increasingly concerning to policymakers and planners. This study examines how their rising presence in the single-family housing market has impacted homeownership. Leveraging both granular spatial and temporal variations in large investment firms’ transaction activities over 800 neighborhoods in the Atlanta metropolitan area between 2007 and 2016, I find tha…
Covid ‐19 emergency policies, financial security, and social equity
Using worldwide country‐level panel data of COVID‐19 emergency policies and aggregated survey responses of 46 million randomly sampled Facebook users, we study the impact of public health and economic measures on household financial worries among various demographic groups. The analysis reveals that public health interventions with stringent mobility restrictions—domestic lockdowns and international travel restrictions—increase the proportion of …
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion
When Agency Priorities Matter
Most studies in collaborative governance examine system-level or agency-level drivers of the horizontal dimension of collaboration, that is, the specific forms of collaboration among an existing set of actors. Few have examined the vertical dimension, that is, what actors are involved and the scope of collaboration. This study examines the latter issue by studying the implementation of the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA),…
Self-Organizing Special Districts
Can self-organizing special districts created from the bottom up be a tool for community change and development? Focusing on community services districts in California, this study introduces the context in which communities opt out of a county service system to reshape their governing structure for better representation. The empirical part measures their effectiveness, using single-family home sale prices as an impact metric. Leveraging multi-lev…
Small and medium multifamily housing
Housing units in small and medium multifamily (SMMF) properties, defined as buildings with 2 to 49 units, comprise over 20% of the U.S. housing stock. Using the American Community Survey and American Housing Survey, this study fills an important gap in the literature by examining the affordability and availability of these housing units. This analysis reveals that SMMF units contain the largest percentage of the lowest-income households and the m…
A contingent diffusion model of local climate change policy adoption
Managing environmental change through inter-agency collaboration
Policy Design for Covid ‐19
To understand the extent to which a policy instrument’s early adoption is crucial in crisis management, we leverage unique worldwide data that record the daily evolution of policy mandate adoptions and COVID‐19 infection and mortality rates. The analysis shows that the mask mandate is consistently associated with lower infection rates in the short term, and its early adoption boosts the long‐term efficacy. By contrast, the other five policy instr…
Bottom-Up or Top-Down Local Service Delivery? Assessing the Impacts of Special Districts as Community Governance Model
This article assesses the impacts of bottom-up local governing institutions relative to top-down bureaucracies in local service delivery. Community services districts (CSDs) in California, a class of special districts that provides various neighborhood-level services, are examined to answer this question. An innovative characteristic of this institutional form is that it is residents who create them through a grass-root collective action to achie…
Lessons From Covid-19 Responses in East Asia
Existing commentaries on government responses to COVID-19 have focused on such factors as competent leadership, policy instruments, or cultural dispositions. Yet, few have provided a synthesis that examines how these factors relate to each other. This article fills this gap in the debate by comparing COVID-19 responses among five advanced economies in East Asia: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan. Although agile actions and comp…
What Determines Where Public Investment Goes? Regional Governance and the Role of Institutional Rules and Power
As an embodiment of the collaborative governance model, metropolitan planning organizations in the United States allocate federal, state, and local funds to member municipalities for transportation projects across their regions. To examine how institutional rules and power shape where public investment goes, the authors consider the extent to which the allocation of local voting power in regional governing policy boards influences the spatial all…
It’s Not Just Welfare
Recent research shows that inequality between racial groups is a critical determinant of redistributive policy in the United States. Using various measures of local and state spending and examining multiple levels of geographical and political jurisdictions, we extend this research to government spending on local public goods. Specifically, we examine (1) whether the extent to which income inequality falls along racial lines dampens local and sta…
Fade to Black? Exploring Policy Enactment and Termination Through the Rise and Fall of State Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry
Policy termination has received less scholarly attention than policy diffusion, and empirical state-level studies that examine the rise and fall of the same policy are mostly absent from the literature. This study assesses the factors that led more than 45 states to enact and some to later repeal Motion Picture Incentive programs, a collection of tax incentives aimed at facilitating job creation and economic diversification. We find program enact…
Lessons From Covid-19 Responses in East Asia
Existing commentaries on government responses to COVID-19 have focused on such factors as competent leadership, policy instruments, or cultural dispositions. Yet, few have provided a synthesis that examines how these factors relate to each other. This article fills this gap in the debate by comparing COVID-19 responses among five advanced economies in East Asia: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan. Although agile actions and comp…
It’s Not Just Welfare
Recent research shows that inequality between racial groups is a critical determinant of redistributive policy in the United States. Using various measures of local and state spending and examining multiple levels of geographical and political jurisdictions, we extend this research to government spending on local public goods. Specifically, we examine (1) whether the extent to which income inequality falls along racial lines dampens local and sta…
Policy Design for Covid ‐19
To understand the extent to which a policy instrument’s early adoption is crucial in crisis management, we leverage unique worldwide data that record the daily evolution of policy mandate adoptions and COVID‐19 infection and mortality rates. The analysis shows that the mask mandate is consistently associated with lower infection rates in the short term, and its early adoption boosts the long‐term efficacy. By contrast, the other five policy instr…
Bottom-Up or Top-Down Local Service Delivery? Assessing the Impacts of Special Districts as Community Governance Model
This article assesses the impacts of bottom-up local governing institutions relative to top-down bureaucracies in local service delivery. Community services districts (CSDs) in California, a class of special districts that provides various neighborhood-level services, are examined to answer this question. An innovative characteristic of this institutional form is that it is residents who create them through a grass-root collective action to achie…
Fade to Black? Exploring Policy Enactment and Termination Through the Rise and Fall of State Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry
Policy termination has received less scholarly attention than policy diffusion, and empirical state-level studies that examine the rise and fall of the same policy are mostly absent from the literature. This study assesses the factors that led more than 45 states to enact and some to later repeal Motion Picture Incentive programs, a collection of tax incentives aimed at facilitating job creation and economic diversification. We find program enact…
When Agency Priorities Matter
Most studies in collaborative governance examine system-level or agency-level drivers of the horizontal dimension of collaboration, that is, the specific forms of collaboration among an existing set of actors. Few have examined the vertical dimension, that is, what actors are involved and the scope of collaboration. This study examines the latter issue by studying the implementation of the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA),…
A contingent diffusion model of local climate change policy adoption
Global diffusion ofCovid‐19 policies
In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID‐19 pandemic, when vertical global governance plays a relatively minor role, government leaders must obtain policy information cues from other governments' behaviors horizontally. This study builds on the policy diffusion literature to examine the distinct role of geographic, cultural, and institutional peers in influencing a country's policy adoptions throughout a diffusion episode. We theorize th…
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion
Managing environmental change through inter-agency collaboration
The Influence of Institutional Single-Family Rental Investors on Homeownership
The emergence of institutional single-family rental investors in local housing markets is increasingly concerning to policymakers and planners. This study examines how their rising presence in the single-family housing market has impacted homeownership. Leveraging both granular spatial and temporal variations in large investment firms’ transaction activities over 800 neighborhoods in the Atlanta metropolitan area between 2007 and 2016, I find tha…
Covid ‐19 emergency policies, financial security, and social equity
Using worldwide country‐level panel data of COVID‐19 emergency policies and aggregated survey responses of 46 million randomly sampled Facebook users, we study the impact of public health and economic measures on household financial worries among various demographic groups. The analysis reveals that public health interventions with stringent mobility restrictions—domestic lockdowns and international travel restrictions—increase the proportion of …
Self-Organizing Special Districts
Can self-organizing special districts created from the bottom up be a tool for community change and development? Focusing on community services districts in California, this study introduces the context in which communities opt out of a county service system to reshape their governing structure for better representation. The empirical part measures their effectiveness, using single-family home sale prices as an impact metric. Leveraging multi-lev…
Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service
In recent years, public administration scholars have started paying attention to intersectionality of government workforce identities and its implications for diversity management. This study unpacks how the intersection of multiple identities increases the transaction costs inherent to underrepresentation by looking at employee engagement in uncompensated extra‐role behaviors and its effect on emotional exhaustion. Using a structural equation mo…
Small and medium multifamily housing
Housing units in small and medium multifamily (SMMF) properties, defined as buildings with 2 to 49 units, comprise over 20% of the U.S. housing stock. Using the American Community Survey and American Housing Survey, this study fills an important gap in the literature by examining the affordability and availability of these housing units. This analysis reveals that SMMF units contain the largest percentage of the lowest-income households and the m…
Fade to Black? Exploring Policy Enactment and Termination Through the Rise and Fall of State Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry
Policy termination has received less scholarly attention than policy diffusion, and empirical state-level studies that examine the rise and fall of the same policy are mostly absent from the literature. This study assesses the factors that led more than 45 states to enact and some to later repeal Motion Picture Incentive programs, a collection of tax incentives aimed at facilitating job creation and economic diversification. We find program enact…
It’s Not Just Welfare
Recent research shows that inequality between racial groups is a critical determinant of redistributive policy in the United States. Using various measures of local and state spending and examining multiple levels of geographical and political jurisdictions, we extend this research to government spending on local public goods. Specifically, we examine (1) whether the extent to which income inequality falls along racial lines dampens local and sta…
Bottom-Up or Top-Down Local Service Delivery? Assessing the Impacts of Special Districts as Community Governance Model
This article assesses the impacts of bottom-up local governing institutions relative to top-down bureaucracies in local service delivery. Community services districts (CSDs) in California, a class of special districts that provides various neighborhood-level services, are examined to answer this question. An innovative characteristic of this institutional form is that it is residents who create them through a grass-root collective action to achie…
Lessons From Covid-19 Responses in East Asia
Existing commentaries on government responses to COVID-19 have focused on such factors as competent leadership, policy instruments, or cultural dispositions. Yet, few have provided a synthesis that examines how these factors relate to each other. This article fills this gap in the debate by comparing COVID-19 responses among five advanced economies in East Asia: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan. Although agile actions and comp…
What Determines Where Public Investment Goes? Regional Governance and the Role of Institutional Rules and Power
As an embodiment of the collaborative governance model, metropolitan planning organizations in the United States allocate federal, state, and local funds to member municipalities for transportation projects across their regions. To examine how institutional rules and power shape where public investment goes, the authors consider the extent to which the allocation of local voting power in regional governing policy boards influences the spatial all…
Managing environmental change through inter-agency collaboration
Policy Design for Covid ‐19
To understand the extent to which a policy instrument’s early adoption is crucial in crisis management, we leverage unique worldwide data that record the daily evolution of policy mandate adoptions and COVID‐19 infection and mortality rates. The analysis shows that the mask mandate is consistently associated with lower infection rates in the short term, and its early adoption boosts the long‐term efficacy. By contrast, the other five policy instr…
Self-Organizing Special Districts
Can self-organizing special districts created from the bottom up be a tool for community change and development? Focusing on community services districts in California, this study introduces the context in which communities opt out of a county service system to reshape their governing structure for better representation. The empirical part measures their effectiveness, using single-family home sale prices as an impact metric. Leveraging multi-lev…
Small and medium multifamily housing
Housing units in small and medium multifamily (SMMF) properties, defined as buildings with 2 to 49 units, comprise over 20% of the U.S. housing stock. Using the American Community Survey and American Housing Survey, this study fills an important gap in the literature by examining the affordability and availability of these housing units. This analysis reveals that SMMF units contain the largest percentage of the lowest-income households and the m…
A contingent diffusion model of local climate change policy adoption
The Influence of Institutional Single-Family Rental Investors on Homeownership
The emergence of institutional single-family rental investors in local housing markets is increasingly concerning to policymakers and planners. This study examines how their rising presence in the single-family housing market has impacted homeownership. Leveraging both granular spatial and temporal variations in large investment firms’ transaction activities over 800 neighborhoods in the Atlanta metropolitan area between 2007 and 2016, I find tha…
Covid ‐19 emergency policies, financial security, and social equity
Using worldwide country‐level panel data of COVID‐19 emergency policies and aggregated survey responses of 46 million randomly sampled Facebook users, we study the impact of public health and economic measures on household financial worries among various demographic groups. The analysis reveals that public health interventions with stringent mobility restrictions—domestic lockdowns and international travel restrictions—increase the proportion of …
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion
When Agency Priorities Matter
Most studies in collaborative governance examine system-level or agency-level drivers of the horizontal dimension of collaboration, that is, the specific forms of collaboration among an existing set of actors. Few have examined the vertical dimension, that is, what actors are involved and the scope of collaboration. This study examines the latter issue by studying the implementation of the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA),…
Who Owns America? A Methodology for Identifying Landlords’ Ownership Scale and the Implications for Targeted Code Enforcement
Problem, research strategy, and findings Scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in understanding who owns real estate in communities and resultant implications for targeted planning approaches. Yet, practitioners lack an efficient and comprehensive methodology to assess landlords’ ownership scale, namely, how many properties they own in each geographic area. The existence of variegated ownership, multiple legal entities, siloed da…
Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service
In recent years, public administration scholars have started paying attention to intersectionality of government workforce identities and its implications for diversity management. This study unpacks how the intersection of multiple identities increases the transaction costs inherent to underrepresentation by looking at employee engagement in uncompensated extra‐role behaviors and its effect on emotional exhaustion. Using a structural equation mo…
Global diffusion ofCovid‐19 policies
In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID‐19 pandemic, when vertical global governance plays a relatively minor role, government leaders must obtain policy information cues from other governments' behaviors horizontally. This study builds on the policy diffusion literature to examine the distinct role of geographic, cultural, and institutional peers in influencing a country's policy adoptions throughout a diffusion episode. We theorize th…
How Public School Districts’ Characteristics Relate to Their Students’ Postsecondary Intentions
In this study, we explore characteristics of public-school districts in the state of Iowa (USA) that contribute to high school graduates’ postsecondary intentions classified as either a four-year university (public or private), a community college, professional training (identified as private two-year or other training), employment or military, or other (homemaker or unknown). To explore this topic, we utilize census, population-level data associ…
Preservation of Affordable Rural Rental Properties by Understanding Owners, Managers, Subsidies, and the Local Market
Rural affordable housing preservation is a pressing policy issue due to subsidy expiration, aging properties, encroaching exurban growth, increasing property management challenges, and ownership succession uncertainties. Little research has been done on how ownership characteristics influence preservation outcomes. This study extends the literature on ownership type and scale impacts to the rural affordable housing field, by exploring multifamily…
Who Bears the Brunt of Disruptive Innovation? The Effect of Grocery E‐Commerce on Local Retail Competitors
The rising prominence of e‐commerce has raised concerns regarding its potential threat to local businesses. However, existing literature lacks substantial empirical evidence of the impact of e‐retailers due to its ambiguous service areas. Our study aims to address this gap by focusing on e‐grocery giants Amazon Fresh and Instacart to examine their influences on local brick‐and‐mortar businesses within the grocery retail industry. We leverage e‐gr…
Frontiers of weatherization
Low-income weatherization programs provide home energy efficiency upgrades to reduce utility costs, improve indoor comfort, and address the health and safety needs of income-constrained households. This review examines seventeen retrospective, outcome-focused evaluations of weatherization programs conducted over the past four decades to assess how program evaluation methods have evolved, where critical gaps remain, and how future studies can impr…
Uncovering neighborhood-level portfolios of corporate single-family rental holdings and community wealth loss
The Trajectory of Rental Housing in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Natural disasters have been increasing in intensity while rental affordability has been declining in many cities. This article presents a new dataset at this intersection, merging rental outcomes with disaster incidence and government assistance. We construct two new panel models that estimate the effects of the natural disasters from 2000 to 2020 on zip codes across California and Florida. Results indicate that rents per unit increase by 0.2 to …
Business (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Public economics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Housing Market and Economics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Finance (5 works)