More mature working papers
(with E. Aslim and D. Tekin) "Visible Immigration Enforcement Arrests and Mental Health Among Hispanic Adults in the United States." [July 2026 medRxiv WP]
(with E. Bair, C. Lowenstein, and R. O'Brien) "Political Power and Mortality: Heterogeneous Effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act" [December 2025 arXiv WP, November 2025 NBER WP] Undergoing a substantial revision with more theoretical grounding and sensitivity checks, but substantive findings are unchanged. That is great news because we have basically done the analysis in a few different ways!
(with R. Khanna, R. O'Brien, A. Stokes, and E. Wrigley-Field) "The U.S. Mortality Crisis as a Preston Curve Reversal" [July 2026 NBER WP] [July 2026 arXiv WP]
(with A. Mishra and R. O'Brien) "Area-Level Economic Opportunity Modifies the Income-Health Gradient in the United States." [March 2026 medRxiv WP]
Earlier stage working papers
(with S. Bhalotra, D. Clarke, J. Gomes) "Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Voice: Historical Evidence from the U.S." [March 2023 CEPR WP]
(with S. Bhalotra and D. Clarke) "Complementary Investments Over the Life-Course and the Black-White Earnings Gap" [Slides from 2023 NBER Race and Stratification Workshop]
(with S. Bhalotra and R. Brown) "Human Capital, Infectious Disease, and Selection: Evidence from Mexico's National Clean Water Program." [March 2019 PacDev Conference, December 2013 IZA WP]
(with A. Halpern and G. Whitehorn) "Opportunity Perceptions and Health and Well-Being Expectations: Evidence from a Survey Experiment." [Pre-analysis plan] [Draft forthcoming]
Ongoing studies
The IGNITE study on concentrated investments in low-income neighborhoods [Endline data collection complete, full results anticipated in Fall/Winter 2026]
Workplace Outcomes from Reskilling: Knowledge, Stress, and Health (WORKS) [Currently enrolling participants]
Stuckness in America [July/August 2026 survey in field] [Report Based on 2025 Data]
Parked
(with B. Fried) "Does Saving Lives Win Votes? Evaluating the Electoral Consequences of Providing Clean Water in Mexico" [October 2017 SSRN Draft]
(with J. Fletcher) "Early Life Exposures, Gene-Environment Interactions, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age" [Version: 2018 ASSA Conference Draft)