Working Papers and Research in Progress

• nprobust: Nonparametric Kernel-Based Estimation and Robust Bias-Corrected Inference, with Matias Cattaneo and Max Farrell
• September 2017. [R and Stata implementation]
• Identifying Distributional Effects of Teachers and Peers in Nonseparable Models.  
• Multivalued Treatments and Decomposition Analysis: An application to the WIA Program, with Wallice Ao and Ying-Ying Lee. 
• Coverage Error Optimal Confidence Intervals for Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias Cattaneo and Max Farrell. 
• Regression Discontinuity Designs using Covariates, with Matias Cattaneo, Max Farrell and Rocio Titiunik.  [Supplemental Appendix] [Software]
• Are Participants Good Evaluators? Evidence from the National Supported Work Demonstration, with Jeffrey Smith. 

Main Publications 

• The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration, with Jeffrey Smith. 
• Journal of Labor Economics, 35(S1): S65-S97, 2017.

• On the Effect of Bias Estimation on Coverage Accuracy in Nonparametric Inference, with Matias Cattaneo and Max Farrell. 
• Journal of the American Statistical Association, forthcoming. [Supplemental Appendix] [arXiv] [Software]

• rdrobust: Software for Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Matias Cattaneo, Max Farrell and Rocio Titiunik. 
• Stata Journal, 17(2): 372-404, 2017. [Software]

• Long-term Health Spending Persistence among the Privately Insured, with Richard Hirth, Teresa Gibson, Helen Levy and Jeffrey Smith, and Anup Das.
• Fiscal Studies, 37 (3-4): 749–783, 2016.

• Optimal Data-Driven Regression-Discontinuity Plots, with Matias Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik.
• Journal of the American Statistical Association, 110(512): 1753-1769, 2015. [Supplemental Appendix] [Software]

• rdrobust: An R Package for Robust Nonparametric Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Matias Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik. 
• R Journal, 7(1): 38-51, 2015. [Software]

• New Evidence on the Persistence of Health Spending, with Richard Hirth, Teresa Gibson, Helen Levy, Jeffrey Smith, and Anup Das.
• Medical Care Research and Review, 72(3): 277-297, 2015.

• Robust Data-Driven Inference in the Regression-Discontinuity Design, with Matias Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik.
• Stata Journal, 14(4): 909-946, 2014. [Software]

• Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Matias Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik.
• Econometrica, 82(6): 2295–2326, 2014. [Supplemental Appendix] [Software]