Research
Publications
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using (Mostly) Low-Touch Coaching Interventions to Improve College Student Outcomes (with Philip Oreopoulos), The Economic Journal, 133 (656): 3034–3070. 2023.
(Previously circulated as "The Remarkable Unresponsiveness of College Students to Nudging and What We Can Learn from It")
[NBER Working Paper No. 26059] [Media Coverage: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Next, Vox]
Low-Touch Attempts to Improve Time Management among Traditional and Online College Students (with Philip Oreopoulos, Richard Patterson, and Nolan Pope), Journal of Human Resources, 57 (1): 1-43 . 2022.
(Previously circulated as "When Studying and Nudging Don't Go as Planned: Unsuccessful Attempts to Help Traditional and Online College Students")
[NBER Working Paper No. 25036] [Vox Column] [Media Coverage: Inside Higher Ed]
Horizontal Differentiation and the Policy Effect of Charter Schools (with Michael Gilraine and John D. Singleton), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(3): 239-276. 2021.
[EdWorkingPaper: 19-80 ] [Media Coverage: Futurity, Chalkbeat]
Improving Non-Academic Student Outcomes Using Online and Text-Message Coaching (with Philip Oreopoulos, Christine Logel, and Graham Beattie), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 171: 342-360. 2020.
[NBER Working Paper No. 24992]
Goal Setting, Academic Reminders, and College Success: A Large-Scale Field Experiment (with Christopher R. Dobronyi and Philip Oreopoulos) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 12(1): 38-66. 2019.
[NBER Working Paper No. 23738]
Student Coaching: How Far Can Technology Go? (with Philip Oreopoulos) Journal of Human Resources, 53(2): 299-329. 2018.
[NBER Working Paper No. 22630] [Vox Column]
Making College Worth It: A Review of the Returns to Higher Education (with Philip Oreopoulos). Future of Children, 23(1): 41 – 65. 2013.
[NBER Working Paper No. 19053] [Media Coverage: Business Insider, The Atlantic, The Washington Post]
Working Papers
School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality (with Michael Gilraine and John D. Singleton), 2023
A Quantitative Framework for Analyzing the Distributional Effects of Incentive Schemes (with Hugh Macartney and Robert McMillan), 2021
[NBER Working Paper No. 28816]
Teacher Value-Added and Economic Agency (with Hugh Macartney and Robert McMillan), 2019
(Previously circulated as "Teacher Performance and Accountability Incentives ")
[NBER Working Paper No. 24747]
Work in Progress
It Takes Time: The Asymmetric Impacts of Imposing and Removing a Teacher Incentive Scheme (with Michael Gilraine and Nolan G. Pope)
Testing three mindset interventions (with Christine Logel and Philip Oreopoulos)
Resting Papers
Experiences and Coping Strategies of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Christine Logel and Philip Oreopoulos), 2021
[NBER Working Paper No. 28803]