John Pepper
Merrill S. Bankard Professor of Economics
Contact Information
Department of Economics, University of Virginia
Monroe Hall, Room 234
434-924-3402 (phone)
434-982-2904 (fax)
Working Papers
“The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People Who are Blind or Vision-Impaired,” (with Chris Clapp, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), June 2023
Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications
“Measurement of Learning Disabilities and Intellectual Disabilities: Racial Patterns and Labor Market Biases in RSA-911 Data,” (with Chris Clapp, Steven Stern and Robert Schmidt) Journal of Human Capital, forthcoming. LD
“Causal Effects of Mental Health on Food Security,” (with Greder, Jensen, Kreider and Zhylyevskyy), Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming. MI
“Reexamining the Evidence on Gun Ownership and Homicide Using Proxy Measures of Ownership,” (with K. Chalak, D. Kim and M. Miller), Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208. Proxy
"Does the Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) Improve Infant Health Outcomes?" (with Brent Kreider and Manan Roy), Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58(4). WIC
“Assessing the Effect of Firearms Regulations Using Partial Identification Methods: A Case Study of the Impact of Stand Your Ground Laws on Violent Crime,” (with Megan Miller), Law and Contemporary Problems, 2020, 83(3), 213-230 . SYG
"The Effect of Youth Transition Programs on Labor Market Outcomes," (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Economics of Education Review, 2019, 68: 68-88., PERT
“How do Right-to-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping with Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions,” (with Charles Manski), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(2): 232-244. RTC
“The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People with Physical Disabilities,” (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12(1), 1-37. PI
"The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People with Mental Illness,: (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(3), 826-858. MI
“Identifying the Effects of SNAP (Food Stamps) on the Nutritional Health of Children when Program Participation is Misreported,” (with Craig Gunderson, Dean Jolliffe, and Brent Kreider), Journal of the American Statistical Association, (JASA), 107(499), September 2012, 958-975. SNAP
Edited Books and Reports
Deterrence and the Death Penalty, National Research Council, Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty; Committee on Law and Justice; Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, 2012, (Editor with Daniel S. Nagin). Death Penalty
Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, National Research Council, Committee on Law and Justice and Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C., 2004 (with Carol V. Petrie, Charles F. Wellford). Firearms
Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us, National Research Council, Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2001. (with Charles F. Manski and Carol Petrie). Drugs
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