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 Lai & 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]
Optimal Formula Instruments, w/Kirill Borusyak
Resubmitted, Econometrica [Paper]
Optimal Experiments for Estimating Spillovers, w/Kirill Borusyak and Evan Munro
In progress
Education
Putting School Surveys to the Test, w/Joshua Angrist, Russell Legate-Yang, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
Resubmitted, American Economic Review [Paper]
Healthcare
The Good Doctors: Cost and Mortality Effects of US PCPs, w/Jason Abaluck, Zachary Bleemer, & Amanda Starc
In progress
Impact of Medicaid Bed-Hold Policies on Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents, w/Hyunkyung Yun, Hye-Young Jung, Cyrus Kosar, and Mark A. Unruh
Revise and resubmit, JAMA Health Forum
Instrumental Variables with Time-Varying Exposure: New Estimates of Revascularization Effects on Quality of Life, w/Joshua Angrist, Bruno Ferman, Carol Gao, Otavio Tecchio, & Robert Yeh
Reject and resubmit, Journal of the American Statistical Association [Paper]
Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians, w/Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matthew Gentzkow
Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies [Paper]
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