Working Papers


Applied Econometrics 

Nonparametric Identification of Demand without Exogenous Product Characteristics, w/Kirill Borusyak, Jiafeng Chen, & Lihua Lei

Submitted [Paper] [Twitter thread]


Long-Term Causal Inference with Many Noisy Proxies, w/Apoorva Lal & Guido Imbens

Updated January 2026 [Paper]


Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual, w/Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham & Michal Kolesár 

Revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Perspectives [Paper] [Code]


Estimating Demand with Recentered Instruments, w/Kirill Borusyak & Mauricio Cáceres Bravo

Updated April 2025 [Paper]


Robust Signal Maximization in Spillover Experiments, w/Kirill Borusyak and Evan Munro

In progress


Shrink Responsibly: Empirical Bayes in Economics, w/Michal Kolesár 

In progress, Journal of Economic Literature


Healthcare 

Instrumental Variables with Time-Varying Exposure: Dynamic Effects of Revascularization on Quality of Life, w/Joshua Angrist, Bruno Ferman, Carol Gao, Otavio Tecchio, & Robert Yeh

Resubmitted, Journal of the American Statistical Association [Paper] [Appendix]


Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians, w/Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matthew Gentzkow

Resubmitted, Review of Economic Studies [Paper]


The Good Doctors: Cost and Mortality Effects of US PCPs, w/Jason Abaluck, Zachary Bleemer, & Amanda Starc

In progress


Resting Papers

What Marginal Outcome Tests Can Tell Us About Racially Biased Decision-Making


Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-Experimental Data


Estimating Treatment Effects in Mover Designs


IsoLATEing: Identifying Counterfactual-Specific Treatment Effects with Cross-Stratum Comparisons