Returns to Education Quality for Low-Skilled Students: Evidence from a Discontinuity with Serena Canaan. Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36(2): 395-436. Link to ungated version.
Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools. with Mark Hoekstra and Yaojing Wang. Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36(4): 841-884. Link to ungated version. Also Available as: NBER Working Paper No. 22337
High Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School. with Yaojing Wang. Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38(3): 805-841. Link to ungated version. Also Available as: IZA DP No. 12455
Conscription and The Returns to Education: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122(3): 1112-1139.Link to ungated version. Media Coverage: Marginal Revolution; The Grumpy Economist; FranceTV (Blog section); National Affairs (Blog section)
The Impact of Advisor Gender on Female Students' STEM Enrollment and Persistence , with Serena Canaan. Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58(2): 593-632. Previously circulated as: Female Science Advisors and the STEM Gender Gap, IZA DP No. 12415
Does Advisor Gender Affect Women's Persistence in Economics?, with Serena Canaan. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111: 112-16. Link to ungated version.
Adviser Value-Added and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomly Assigned College Advisers, with Serena Canaan and Antoine Deeb. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14(4):151-91. Available as IZA DP No. 12739
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon, with Ruba Ajeeb and Mark Hoekstra. Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming. Available as: NBER Working Paper No. 26835 and IZA DP No. 13036.
The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms, with Serena Canaan and Peng Zhang. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, forthcoming. Available as: IZA DP No. 15039 and EdWorkingPaper No. 22-519.
The Impact of Religious Diversity on Students’ Academic and Behavioral Outcomes, with Serena Canaan and Antoine Deeb. Accepted at Journal of Labor Economics. Previously circulated as "Does Religious Diversity Improve Trust and Performance? Evidence from Lebanon" available as IZA DP No. 15206 and CESifo Working Paper No. 9896.
Keep Me In, Coach: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of a University Intervention, with Serena Canaan, Stefanie Fischer and Geoffrey Schnorr. Working paper available as IZA DP No. 15469 and EdWorkingPaper No. 22-620 . Policy brief available as Upjohn Policy and research brief.
The Role of University Policies in Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality, with Serena Canaan, Stefanie Fischer and Geoffrey Schnorr (Draft Available Upon Request).
Role Models and the Formation of Long-Run Gender Norms, with Ali Abboud, Samuel Bazzi, Serena Canaan and Antoine Deeb.