Winnie van Dijk - Research

PUBLICATIONS

Selection in Surveys: Using Randomized Incentives to Detect and Account for Nonresponse Bias (with Deniz Dutz, Ingrid Huitfeldt, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, and Alex Torgovitsky)
Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies
[pdf] [NBER wp] [BFI wp] [non-technical (BFI)] [VoxEU column]

Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door (with John Eric Humphries, Aurelie Ouss, Kamelia Stavreva, and Megan Stevenson)
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025)
[publisher's link] [pdf] [NBER wp] [SSRN wp] [CEPR wp] [non-technical (Cato)]

Labor Market Attachment and Perceived Barriers to Work Among Homeless Families (with Nour Abdul-Razzak, John Eric Humphries, and Stephen Stapleton)
AEA Papers & Proceedings (2025) - not peer reviewed
[publisher's link] [pdf]
Media coverage: The Guardian.

Non-Representativeness in Population Health Research: Evidence From a COVID-19 Antibody Study (with Deniz Dutz, Michael Greenstone, Ali Hortacsu, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Azeem Shaikh, and Alex Torgovitsky)
AER: Insights (2024)
[publisher's link] [pdf] [NBER wp] [BFI wp] [non-technical (BFI)]
Media coverage: New York Times, STAT.

Eviction and Poverty in American Cities (with Rob Collinson, John Eric Humphries, Nick Mader, Davin Reed, and Daniel Tannenbaum)
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2024)
[publisher's link] [pdf] [NBER wp] [non-technical (Tobin)] [video]
This paper replaces and subsumes "Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Cook County, IL" (2019). Media coverage: The Economist, New York Times.

Selection Bias in Voluntary Random Testing: Evidence From a COVID-19 Antibody Study (with Deniz Dutz, Michael Greenstone, Ali Hortacsu, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Danae Roumis, Azeem Shaikh, and Alex Torgovitsky)
AEA Papers & Proceedings (2023) - not peer reviewed
[publisher's link] [pdf]

Centralized School Choice with Unequal Outside Options (with Mohammad Akbarpour, Adam Kapor, Chris Neilson, and Seth Zimmerman)
Journal of Public Economics (2022)
[publisher's link] [pdf]

WORKING PAPERS

Equilibrium Effects of Eviction Protections: The Case of Legal Assistance (with Rob Collinson, John Eric Humphries, Stephanie Kestelman, Scott Nelson, and Daniel Waldinger)
Revise & resubmit, American Economic Review
[pdf]

The Effects of Eviction on Children (with Rob Collinson, Deniz Dutz, John Eric Humphries, Nick Mader, and Daniel Tannenbaum)
Revise & resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
[pdf] [NBER wp] [non-technical (Tobin)]
Media coverage: The Guardian.

The Effects of Emergency Rental Assistance During the Pandemic: Evidence From Four Cities (with Rob Collinson, Anthony DeFusco, John Eric Humphries, Ben Keys, David Phillips, Vincent Reina, and Patrick Turner)
Revise & resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
[pdf] [NBER wp] [non-technical (JPAL)]

Nonpayment and Eviction in the Rental Housing Market (with John Eric Humphries, Scott Nelson, Dam Linh Nguyen, and Daniel Waldinger)
Revise & resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
[pdf] [NBER wp] [non-technical (SIEPR)] [non-technical (BFI)] [non-technical (Booth)]

Revisiting the Lasting Effects of Incarceration (with John Eric Humphries, Cecile Macaire, Aurelie Ouss, and Megan Stevenson)
[pdf] [Cowles wp]

The Socio-Economic Consequences of Housing Assistance
[pdf]

WORK IN PROGRESS

Public Provision vs Private Market Subsidies for Affordable Housing: Lottery Evidence from Miami (with Harvey Barnhard, Rob Collinson, and Daniel Waldinger)

Evaluating the Targeting of Short-Term Rental Assistance (with Deniz Dutz, John Eric Humphries, Santiago Lacouture, and Stephen Stapleton)

The Impacts of an Unconditional Cash Transfer for Homeless Families: Experimental Evidence from Illinois (with Nour Abdul-Razzak, John Eric Humphries, and Stephen Stapleton)

Rental Property Ownership in the United States (with Rebecca Diamond, John Eric Humphries, Stephanie Kestelman , Kate Pennington, and John Voorheis)

The Role of Family Proximity in Location Choices and Labor Supply (with Hadar Avivi, Santiago Lacouture, and Felipe Lobel)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Financial support from Arnold Ventures, the Cowles Foundation, the Tobin Center, the National Science Foundation, and the Becker-Friedman Institute is gratefully acknowledged.