Research
Published Papers
"More A’s and I get to stay? How Grading Influences Employment Outcomes for Contingent Faculty" with Amanda Griffith, Education Economics, 2024
"Playing Catch Up: A Term-Level Investigation of the Racial Gap in STEM Retention" with Moshe Buchinsky and Matthew Baird, Economics of Education Review, 2021.
previous version: RAND Working Paper 1171
"Under Pressure: How Faculty Gender and Contract Uncertainty Impact Students' Grades" with Amanda Griffith , Economics of Education Review, 2021.
media coverage: Times Higher Education
Risk Preferences and Investments in Children: Evidence from Mexico, Review of Economics of the Household, 2017.
The impact of HIV testing on subjective mortality and investments in children: Experimental evidence From Malawi with Katherine Eriksson, Economics Letters, 2016.
The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps with C. Monica Capra, Tomomi Tanaka, Colin F. Camerer, Lauren Feiler, and Charles Noussair. Economic Journal, 2009.
Working Papers
"Second Try's a Charm: The Impact of Financial Aid Policy on Course Retaking Behavior for Low Income Students" with Amanda Griffith
status: revision requested at Education Finance and Policy
“Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Socializing ” with Adriana Lleras-Muney, Matthew Miller, and Shuyang Sheng
status: accepted at Journal of Labor Economics
media coverage: https://money.com/popular-kids-earn-more-as-adults/
“Student Success in GE Courses During Covid-19” with Camille Antinori and Anoshua Chaudhuri
"Peer Effects in Higher Education: A Course Level Analysis" with Moshe Buchinsky and Shuyang Sheng
Other Publications
“Faculty and Student Trends at SF State University,” report prepared for the SFSU chapter of the California Faculty Association, 2021.
"Teaching in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and Faculty Work at San Francisco State University," report prepared for the SFSU chapter of the California Faculty Association, 2020.