More mature working papers
(with S. Ahn, M. Freedman, and D. Phillips) "Means-Tested Public Transportation Subsidies: Causal Evidence and Implications." Accepted, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
(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 basically unchanged.
(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)