Economist & Founder

Issi is the founder of MetroSight, a fellow at the ADP Research Institute and an affiliate of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at U.C. Berkeley. He has also served as Chief Economist of Trulia and Senior Director of Housing & Urban Economics at Zillow. His research and writing on metropolitan growth patterns, construction trends and housing has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and more. He regularly speaks at industry and research forums.

Prior to that, Issi served as Chief Economist of BuildZoom, advised the Rentonomics team at Apartment List, and worked as an economist at OnPoint Analytics and the Bay Area Council.

He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University, and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he was advised by professors David Card (Nobel prize winner, 2021), Bob Helsley and Enrico Moretti. He has taught econometrics as an adjunct professor in Berkeley’s economics department.

Economist & Research Affiliate

Dan is an economist and research affiliate of MetroSight, a professor at the Weatherhead School of Management, and chair of the economics department. He was formerly an associate professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and an affiliate of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s New England Public Policy Center.

Dan’s research focuses on housing, regional and urban economics, and state and local government finance. Shoag’s research has been published in major academic journals like the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics, and his work has been featured, among other outlets, in The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He was selected as one of Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30 in 2012. Shoag received his BA and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Shoag has worked as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University, and was selected as a rising scholar by the Stanford University Center on Poverty and Inequality. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. He co-founded and chaired the 200+ person HumTech conference in Boston and co-edited the annual peer-reviewed conference proceedings volume.

Daniel Shoag has worked as an economic consultant for over a decade, with clients ranging from financial institutions, real estate developers, non-profits, public agencies, and state and local governments. Data series and reports produced by Shoag have been widely cited and used by academics and practitioners alike.