Research

Working Papers:

The Effects of Emergency Rental Assistance During the Pandemic: Evidence from Four Cities (with Rob Collinson, Anthony DeFusco, John Eric Humphries, Ben Keys, Vincent Reina, Patrick Turner, and Winnie van Dijk)

The Effect of Emergency Financial Assistance on Employment and Earnings (with Dan Hungerman, Kevin Rinz, and Jim Sullivan)

Eliminating Fares to Expand Opportunities: Experimental Evidence on the Impacts of Free Public Transportation on Economic Disparities (with Becca Brough and Matt Freedman)

Reducing Re-arrests through Light Touch Mental Health Outreach (with Mary Kate Batistich and Bill Evans)

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

[Journal name links to final version; title links to ungated version]

Personalizing Homelessness Prevention: Evidence from A Randomized Controlled Trial, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, forthcoming (with Jim Sullivan)

High Schools Tailored To Adults Can Help Them Complete a Traditional Diploma and Excel in the Labor Market, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming (with Becca Brough and Patrick Turner)

  • Previously distributed as "The Labor Market Return to Reversing High School Dropout"

Do Homelessness Prevention Programs Prevent Homelessness? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming (with Jim Sullivan)

Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Means-Tested Public Transportation Subsidies on Travel Behavior, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022 (with Becca Brough and Matt Freedman)

Can Transportation Subsidies Reduce Failures to Appear in Criminal Court? Evidence from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, Economics Letters, 2022 (with Becca Brough, Matt Freedman, and Dan Ho)

The Effect of Emergency Financial Assistance on Healthcare Use, Journal of Public Economics, 2022 (with Henry Downes and Jim Sullivan) 

Landlords and Access to Opportunity, Journal of Urban Economics, 2022 (with Dionissi Aliprantis and Hal Martin)

Policies to Reduce and Prevent Homelessness: What We Know and Gaps in the Research, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021 (with Bill Evans and Krista Ruffini)

Understanding Socioeconomic Disparities in Travel Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Journal of Regional Science, 2021 (with Rebecca Brough and Matthew Freedman)

Measuring Housing Stability with Consumer Reference Data, Demography, 2020.

Do Low-Wage Employers Discriminate Against Applicants with Long Commutes? Evidence from a Correspondence Experiment, Journal of Human Resources, 2020.

Do Comparisons of Fictional Applicants Measure Discrimination When Search Externalities Are Present? Evidence from Existing Experiments, Economic Journal, 2019.

Does Emergency Financial Assistance Reduce Crime?, Journal of Public Economics, 2019. (with Jim Sullivan and Caroline Palmer)

Smart Sentencing Guidelines: The Effect of Marginal Policy Changes on Recidivism, Journal of Public Economics, 2018. (with Sarah Estelle)

Effective Sterilized Foreign Exchange Market Intervention? Evidence from a Rule-Based Policy, Journal of International Economics, 2018. (with Guido Kuersteiner and Mauricio Villamizar)  Online supplement.

Why Do Kids Get Into Trouble on School Days? Evidence from Teacher Work Days, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017. (with Steve Billings)

Landlords Avoid Tenants Who Pay with Vouchers, Economics Letters, 2017.

Stopping On Nine: Evidence of Heuristic Managerial Decision-Making in Major League Baseball Pitcher Substitutions, Southern Economic Journal, 2017.

Career Interruption and Productivity: Evidence from Major League Baseball During the Vietnam War Era, Journal of Human Capital, 2016. (with Brennan Mange)

Does Public Transit Spread Crime: Evidence from Temporary Rail Station Closures, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015. (with Danielle Sandler)

Getting to Work: Experimental Evidence on Job Search and Transportation Costs, Labour Economics, 2014.

Wages and Health Worker Retention: Evidence From Public Sector Wage Reforms in Ghana, Journal of Development Economics, 2013. (with James Antwi)

You're Hurting My Game: Lineup Protection and Injuries in Major League Baseball, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2011.

Work in Progress:

Impact Evaluation of Bridges to Success (with Javier Espinosa and Bill Evans)

Impact Evaluation of Rapid Re-Housing for Singles in Santa Clara County (with Grace Ortuzar and Jim Sullivan)

The Impact of Fare-Free Public Transit on the Health and Well-being of People Living in Poverty (with many co-authors)

Permanent Working Paper:

What Really is Brain Drain? Location of Birth, Education, and Migration Dynamics of African Doctors (with Caglar Ozden)