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]
School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality (with Michael Gilraine and John D. Singleton), 2026, revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association
[NBER Working Paper No. 31328]
The (Lack of) Efficacy of Growth and Belonging Mindset Interventions Among College Students (with Abid Alam, Christine Logel, and Philip Oreopoulos)
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]
It Takes Time: The Asymmetric Impacts of Imposing and Removing a Teacher Incentive Scheme (with Michael Gilraine and Nolan G. Pope)
Experiences and Coping Strategies of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Christine Logel and Philip Oreopoulos), 2021
[NBER Working Paper No. 28803]