Research

Working Papers

An Experimental Evaluation of Deferred Acceptance: Evidence from Over 100 Army Officer Labor Markets (Revisions Requested, Econometrica)

with Kyle Greenberg and Damon Jones, NBER Working Paper 31612. 

Labor Market Design Can Improve Match Outcomes: Evidence from Matching Teach For America Teachers to Schools  (Resubmitted,  JPE Microeconomics)

Firm Strategy and Internal Talent Markets (Revisions Requested, Strategic Management Journal)

with Bo Cowgill, Pablo Montagnes, and Patryk Perkowski

Scale-Up Experiments (Link to NBER working paper version)

     with Jonathan Guryan, Kelly Hallberg, and Jens Ludwig. NBER Working Paper No. 23925.

Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility

    with Bhashkar Mazumder

Distributional impact analysis: toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect

    with Guadalupe Bedoya, Luca Bittarello, and Nikolas Mittag. World Bank Policy Research Paper 8139.


Peer Reviewed Publications

Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums  Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Forthcoming.

with Tracey Meares and Emily Arnesen

Stable Matching on the Job? Theory and Evidence on Internal Talent Markets, Management Science, Forthcoming.

with Bo Cowgill, Pablo Montagnes, and Patryk Perkowski

The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility After 1980, Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.

    with Bhashkar Mazumder

Data and Code for Replication

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among AdolescentsAmerican Economic Review, 113(3): 738-765, 2023.

with Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Monica Bhatt, Philip Cook, Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland Fryer, Susan Mayer, Harold Pollack, Laurence Steinberg, and Greg Stoddard

Rethinking the Benefits of Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs  Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2020.

     with Sara B. Heller   (Appendix Materials)

Programs: Programs for replication

Instructions for applying for data and details about code: ReadMe File

Internal Immigrant Mobility in the Early 20th Century: Experimental Evidence from Galveston Immigrants Explorations in Economic History, April 2020.

     with Daniel Aaronson and Karl Schulze

Identification of Average Marginal Effects Under Misspecification when Covariates are Normal Econometric Reviews, 38(3): 350-357, 2019.

with José Ignacio Cuesta, Andrew Gianou, and Alejandro Hoyos 

The Relative Returns to WIA-Supported Training in Florida by Field, Gender, and Education and Ways to Improve Trainees' Choices   Journal of Labor Economics, 35(S1): S337-S375, 2017.

with Louis Jacobson

A Comparison of Intergenerational Mobility Curves in Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the US  The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119(1): 72-101, 2017.

with Espen Bratberg, Bhashkar Mazumder, Martin Nybom, Daniel Schnitzlein, and Kjell Vaage

Parental Income and Children’s Well-being and Future Success: An Analysis of the SIPP matched to SSA Earnings Data Economic Inquiry, 51(3) 1795-1808, 2013.

with Bhashkar Mazumder

Other Work

How to Design an Internal Talent Marketplace Harvard Business Review, May/June 2023. 

with Cowgill, Bo, B. Pablo Montagnes, Patryk Perkowski, and Bettina Hammer.

Studying Properties of the Population: Designing Studies that Mirror Real World Scenarios. The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It, Edited by John List, Lauren Supplee, and Dana Suskind. Routledge, 2021

with Jonathan Guryan, Kelly Hallberg, and Jens Ludwig

Improving Teacher Labor Markets with Market Design,  More Equal By Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, Edited by Scott Kominers and Alex Teytelboym, Forthcoming. 

Using Causal Forests to Predict Treatment Heterogeneity: An Application to Summer Jobs.  American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 107(5): 546-550, 2017.

with Sara B. Heller

The Upside of Down: Postsecondary Enrollment in the Great Recession, Economic Perspectives, Vol. 36, 4th Quarter 2012
with Lisa Barrow

Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate, Chicago Fed Letter, No. 296, March 2012

with Daniel Aaronson and Luojia Hu

How much has house lock affected labor mobility and the unemployment rate? Chicago Fed Letter, No. 290, September 2011

with Daniel Aaronson