Child Employment Penalty and Gender Wage Gap Across Countries (with Harold Cuffe and Nguyen Doan)
Are Students' Goals, Grades and Fights Influenced by Friday Night Lights? (with Harold Cuffe and Nguyen Doan)
R&R at Education Finance and Policy
Life-cycle Bias Adjustment and Intergenerational Associations in Crime
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, forthcoming. [A*] Working paper version
Labour Economics, 91, 2024. [A*]
Do Academically Struggling Students Benefit From Continued Student Loan Access? Evidence From University and Beyond (with Harold Cuffe)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(1), 2024. [A*] Working paper version
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Taiwan: 1990-2010 (with Ming-Jen Lin)
Empirical Economics, 59(1), 2020. [A] Working paper version
Joint Culpability: The Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime (with Wilbur Townsend)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 159, 2019. [A*] Working paper version
Brief summary at The Conversation (reprinted in Newsweek, Foundation of Economics Education, Business Insider)
In media: NZ Herald, Radio Adelaide, Daily Mail, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, Salient, Cannifornian, MPP, NORML, Greendorphin, Medical Marijuana Inc. News, Daily Chronic.
High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use (with Seth Gershenson)
Economics of Education Review, 66, 2018. [A] Working paper version
In media: Times Higher Education
Addiction, 113(6), June 2018.
Gender Gap in Upward Mobility: What is the Role of Non-cognitive Traits? (with Susan J. Linz)
International Journal of Manpower, 38(6), 2017. [A] Working paper version
Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Hard Drug Use?
The Journal of Law and Economics, 58(2), 2015. [A*] Working paper version
In media: EconLog, JSTOR Daily, MJ Detox Blog, Leafwell, Interest
One of the most read articles at The Journal of Law and Economics (Rank 3rd in 2016).
The Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Illegal Marijuana Use
Journal of Health Economics, 38, 2014. [A*] Working paper version
One of the most downloaded articles at Journal of Health Economics (Rank 2nd in 2015).
Work Ethic in Formerly Socialist Economies (with Susan J. Linz)
Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 2013. [A]
Weber, Marx, and work values: Evidence from transition economies (with Susan J. Linz)
Economic Systems, 37(3), 2013. [B]
High Temperatures and Rural Household Expenditure: Evidence From Longitudinal Data in Colombia (with Cristhian D. Prieto and Ilan Noy)
Review of Development Economics, forthcoming. [A]
Individuals’ Emigration from Christchurch City After the 2010–11 Earthquakes (with Yousef Abdeljawad and Ilan Noy)
Regional Studies, Regional Science, 12(1), 2025. [A]
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