RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

"Maxed Out: The Human Capital Effects of Larger Student Loan Limits" (with Jeffrey Denning), Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources. Link to paper. Link to IZA Working Paper 12239.

"College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking" (with Ishtiaque Fazlul* and Jonathan Smith). Forthcoming, Economics of Education Review. Link to paper.

"The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Student Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach" (with Daniel Kreisman, Ross Rubenstein, Cynthia Searcy, and Rachana Bhatt), Forthcoming, Education Finance and Policy. Link to IZA Working Paper 13849.

"Do Peers Influence Occupational Preferences? Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Peer Groups at West Point" (with Michael Kofoed), 2020, Journal of Public Economics, 184, 104154. Link to paper.

"Are High-Quality PhD Programs at Universities Associated with More Undergraduate Students Pursuing PhD Study?" (with Ronald Ehrenberg), 2019, Education Economics, 27(5):451-471. Link to paper.

"Information and the Beauty Premium in Political Elections" (with Joe Price), 2017, Contemporary Economic Policy, 35: 677-683. Link to paper. Online appendix.

"SigTree: A Microbial Community Analysis Tool to Identify and Visualize Significantly Responsive Branches in a Phylogenetic Tree" (with John Stevens, Michael Lefevre, Balasubramanian Ganesan, and Bart Weimer), 2017, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 15:372-376. Link to paper.

WORKING PAPERS

"The Graduate and Undergraduate Origins of Economics Faculty" (with Arielle Sloan). Link to EdWorkingPaper 20-324.

"The Graduate School Origins of Finance Faculty" (with Haoyang Xiong*).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

"Changes in Parental Gender Preference in the United States: Evidence from 1830-1940" (with Matthew Millington* and Joe Price).

"Peer Effects on Academic Achievement of First Generation College Students" (with Michael Kofoed).

"Education and Longevity in Early 20th Century Mississippi" (with Kendall Kennedy and Joe Price).

"The Graduate School Origins of Faculty Across Disciplines" (with Will Davis and Haoyang Xiong*).

"Early Detection of Child Maltreatment and Georgia Pre-K" (with Rodrigo Aranda Balcazar and Thomas Goldring).

OTHER WRITING

"Post-Secondary Financial Aid Foundational Report: 2013-14 to 2018-19," 2020. Child and Family Policy Lab, Georgia Policy Labs. Link to paper.

"Taking Advanced Placement Courses but Not the Exam" (with Ishtiaque Fazlul* and Jonathan Smith), 2020. Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education, Georgia Policy Labs. Link to policy brief.


*Student coauthor (as of beginning of project).