Research
Working Papers
Keep Me In, Coach: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Targeted Academic Coaching (joint with Serena Canaan, Pierre Mouganie and Geoffrey Schnorr) R&R – Journal of Political Economy: Micro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15469, EdWorkingPaper No. 22-620, Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 22-370
- Best paper award Australia Labour Econometrics Workshop 2022
Published Articles
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US (joint with Heather Royer and Corey White), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2024.
NBER Working Paper No. 30141
Media Coverage: Freakonomics
Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes (joint with Valerie Bostwick and Matthew Lang), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2022.
Online Appendix Replication Package
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12429
Media Coverage: The Chronicle of Higher Education, AEA Research Highlights
Coordination and Contagion: Individual Connections and Peer Mechanisms in a Randomized Field Experiment (joint with Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard and John Hartman), Journal of Public Economics, May 2020.
Does the Response to Competition Depend on Perceived Ability? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment (joint with Kelly Bedard), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, March 2019.
The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortions, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases (joint with Heather Royer and Corey White), Journal of Public Economics, November 2018.
NBER Working Paper No. 23634, IZA Discussion Paper No. 10920
Media Coverage: NYT The Upshot, NYT The Upshot, Marginal Revolution, Houston Chronicle, MarketWatch
Amicus Brief Coverage: Washington Post, New York Times, Brookings Report, Nature, C-SPAN
Juvenile Crime and the Four-Day School Week (joint with Daniel Argyle), Economics of Education Review, June 2018.
The Downside of Good Peers: How Classroom Composition Differentially Affects Men’s and Women’s STEM Persistence, Labour Economics, June 2017.
The Academic Achievement of American Indians (joint with Chris Stoddard), Economics of Education Review, October 2013.
Selected Works in Progress
Disentangling Sources of Variation in C-Section Rates (joint with Heather Royer and Corey White)
[Draft available upon request.]
The Long-term Effects of Academic Probation (joint with Serena Canaan, Pierre Mouganie and Goeffrey Schnorr)
[Draft available upon request.]
The Academic Calendar and Faculty Productivity (joint with Valerie K. Bostwick, Francesca Truffa and Ashley Wong)