Research

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

"The Adverse Effect of Decreasing State Support for Higher Education on Student Diversity" Forthcoming in Education Finance and Policy.

"Gender Differences in College Students' Academic Performance During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Females' Recovery Lagging Behind?" (with Julie Edmunds, Nir Eilam, Bryan Hutchins and Nina Arshavsky) Economics Letters, 255, September 2025.

"Getting Students to Stick Around: The Effects of Completing an Introductory Course on Persistence for Community College Students" (with Julie Edmunds, Marie Hull, and Beth Thrift) Contemporary Economic Policy 43, July 2025, pp. 427-451. (Working paper version)

"The Effects of Access to Medicaid on the Employment and Academic Progress of College Students" (with Priyanka Anand) American Journal of Health Economics 10(4), Fall 2024, pp. 603-634.  (Working paper version)

"Macroeconomic Implications of Student Debt: A State-Level Analysis" (with Berrak Bahadir) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 54(8), December 2022, pp. 2273-2300. (Working paper version)

"Using Mixed Methods to Explore Variations in Impact within RCTs:  the Case of Project COMPASS"  (with Julie Edmunds, Beth Thrift and Marie Hull) Journal of Mixed Methods Research 16(4), October 2022, pp. 478-499.

"The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on the Sources of Health Insurance Coverage of Undergraduate Students in the United States" (with Priyanka Anand) Medical Care Research and Review 79(2), April 2022, pp. 299-307.

"Altruism and Burnout: Long Hours in the Teaching Profession" ILR Review 75(2), March 2022, pp. 427-457. (Working paper version)

"Teachers' Working Hours During the COVID-19 Pandemic" Educational Researcher 51(1), January/February 2022, pp. 85-87.

"Public Sector Entrepreneurship, Politics, and Innovation" (with Al Link) Small Business Economics 59, 2022, pp. 565-572.

"Innovative Activity and Gender Dynamics" (with Steven Bednar and Al Link), Small Business Economics 56, 2021, pp. 1591–1599.

"High tech, high touch: The impact of an online course intervention on academic performance and persistence in higher education" (with Julie Edmunds, Beth Thrift and Marie Hull) The Internet and Higher Education 49, April 2021, 100790.

"Occupational Social Value and Returns to Long Hours" Economica 87(347), July 2020, pp. 682-712. (Working paper version)

"Workplace Support and Diversity in the Market for Public School Teachers" (with Steven Bednar), Education Finance and Policy 14(2), Spring 2019. (Working paper version)

"Requiring versus Recommending Preparation before Class: Does It Matter?" (with Martin S. Andersen and Jeffrey Sarbaum), Southern Economic Journal 85(2), October 2018, pp. 616-631.

"Career Implications of Having a Female-Friendly Supervisor" (with Steven Bednar) ILR Review 71 (2), March 2018, pp. 426-457. 

"Student Loans or Marriage? A Look at the Highly Educated" Economics of Education Review 53, August 2016, pp. 207-216.

"On the economic performance of nascent entrepreneurs" (with Al Link) European Economic Review 86, July 2016, pp. 109-117.

"The Effects of Student Loans on Long-Term Household Financial Stability" (with Jeffrey Thompson), in Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt, edited by Kevin Hollenbeck and Brad Hershbein, Upjohn Institute Press, 2015.

"The gender gap in federal and private support for entrepreneurship" (with Al Link) Small Business Economics 45 (4), December 2015, pp. 729-733.

"Are Female Supervisors More Female-Friendly?" (with Steven Bednar) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2014, 104(5): 370-75.

"Working Long Hours and Early Career Outcomes in the High-End Labor Market" Journal of Labor Economics 31 (4), October 2013. (Open access available here.)

"Tax Benefits for Graduate Education: Incentives for Whom?" (with Steven Bednar) Economics of Education Review 36, October 2013, pp. 181-197.

"Leveraging Entrepreneurship through Private Investments: Does Gender Matter?" (with Al Link) Small Business Economics 40 (2), February 2013, pp. 199-210. Reprinted in Link, Albert, Public Support of Innovation in Entrepreneurial Firms, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.

"Worker Mobility, Employer-Provided Tuition Assistance, and the Choice of Graduate Education" Labour Economics 19 (2), April 2012, pp. 232-240. (Open access available here.)

"Investigating Income Effects in Scanner Data: Do Gasoline Prices Affect Grocery Purchases?" (with Justine Hastings and Sofia Villas-Boas). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2010, 100(2): 480-84.

Other Publications

"Conducting a Randomized Controlled Trial in Education: Experiences From an Online Postsecondary Setting" (with Julie Edmunds, Beth Thrift, Marie Hull & Jeremy Bray), SAGE Research Methods Cases, 2020.

"Retaining minority teachers in schools where most of their colleagues are white" (with Steven Bednar), Brown Center Chalkboard Blog at the Brookings Institution, August 2, 2017.

Working Papers

"Liberal Arts or STEM: State Funding Cuts, Public University Responses, and Student Outcomes" Revisions requested at Economics of Education Review.

"Universal Testing Mandates and the Composition of Students at Selective Four-Year Colleges" (with Steven Bednar)

"The Effects of Credit Status on College Enrollment and College Completion" (with Felicia Ionescu and Nicole Simpson), IZA Discussion Paper No. 6719 

"Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases" (with Justine Hastings and Sofia Villas-Boas), NBER Working Paper 13614

Research Reports

Edmunds, J., Arshavsky, N., Coyle, V., Hutchins, B., Lewis, K., Williams, M., Rosof, L., Gicheva, D & Henson, B. (2022). Improving Teachers' Instruction: The Impact of Project EQuIPD. Final External Evaluation Report submitted to University of Florida.

Edmunds, J., Gicheva, D., Thrift, B., & Hull, M. (2019). Project COMPASS Final Evaluation Report. Submitted to Wake Technical Community College.

Bradley, S. R., Gicheva, D., Hassell, L., & Link, A. N. (2013). Gender Differences in access to private investment funding to support the development of new technologies. Final report to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.