My academic publications and working papers are listed below; a list of the public RAND Reports that I am an author on found at the following link: LINK.
As described in my research statement, found here, my research generally falls into one of three strands: teacher effectiveness and peer effects; other drivers of human capital, of which natural disasters and community schools are the two main areas of focus; and applied econometrics. I've listed the papers and RAND Reports within each of these strands along with abstracts, links to code, and relevant media articles on the relevant subpage pages of this site. These can be found at the following links: Teacher Effectiveness and Peer Effects; Applied Econometrics; Natural Disasters; and Community Schools.
Academic Publications:
Does Helping John Help Sue? Evidence of Spillovers in Education, American Economic Review, March 2019, 109(3): 1080-1115
Optimal Allocation of Spots in the Presence of Peer Effects: Evidence a Job Training Program (with Matthew D. Baird and John Engberg), Journal of Labor Economics, April 2023, 41(2): 479-509
The effect of natural disasters on human capital in the United States (with R. Jisung Park and Lucas Husted), Nature Human Behavior, June 2023
From LATE to ATE: A Bayesian Approach, Journal of Econometrics, December 2024
Leading Indicators of Long-Term Success in Community Schools: Evidence from New York City (with Lauren Covelli and John Engberg), Journal of Research on Education Effectiveness, April 2025
Loss of Schooling from Tropical Cyclones: Evidence from 13 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (with Renzhi Jing, Sam Heft-Neal, Zetianyu Wang, Jie Chen, Minghao Qiu, Zachary Wagner, and Eran Bendavid), PNAS, April 2025
Working Papers:
Screening with Multitasking: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Teacher Tenure Reform (with Michael Dinerstein) [R&R at Journal of Political Economy]
A Global Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Application to Grade Retention Policies (with Umut Ozek)
Measuring and Summarizing the Multiple Dimensions of Teacher Effectiveness (with Christine Mulhern) [R&R at AEJ:Policy]
Dual Methods for Dual Enrollment: Combining approaches to estimate the impact of taking college courses in high school on educational attainment (with Christine Mulhern, Fatih Unlu, Brian Phillips, and Julie Edmunds) [R&R at Education Finance and Policy]
Improving Average Treatment Effect Estimates in Small Scale Randomized Controlled Trials
Am I Good Enough? Understanding How Teachers' Assessment of Their Own Practice Depends on the Context (with Kata Mihaly)