Publications

“The Effect of Banning Affirmative Action on Human Capital Accumulation Prior to College Entry,” with Ben Backes, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, August 2014, 3(5).

"The Effect of Banning Affirmative Action on College Admissions Policies and Student Quality", with Ben Backes, Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2014, 49(2).

“Affirmative Action Bans and the Chilling Effect,” with Richard Sander,  American Law and Economics Review, Spring 2013, 15(1), pp 252-99.

“Were Minority Students Discouraged From Applying to University of California Campuses After the Affirmative Action Ban?” with Ben Backes, Education Finance and Policy, Spring 2013, 8(2), pp 208-50.

“Experimentation and Job Choice,” with Limor Golan, Journal of Labor Economics, April 2012, 30(2), pp 333-366. 

“The Effects of Gender Interactions in the Lab and in the Field,” with Peter Arcidiacono and Randall Walsh, Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), pp 152-163.

“A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department,” with Brian Knight, Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), pp 163-175.

Review of Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market by Katherine Newman, Journal of Economic Literature, December 2007.

“Games and Discrimination:  Lessons from ‘The Weakest Link’,” with Peter Arcidiacono and Randall Walsh, Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2005, 40(4), pp. 918-47.

“Does Increasing Women’s Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?—Comment,” with Arthur Goldberger, American Economic Review, December 2005, 95(5), pp. 1738-44.

“Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium,” with Robert Town, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2004, 94(2), pp. 317-21.

“Attrition in the New Beneficiary Survey and Followup, and Its Correlates,” with Robert Haveman, Karen Holden and Barbara Wolfe, Social Security Bulletin, 2000, 63(1), pp. 40-49.

Working Papers

“Out-of-Class Assignments Versus Midterms: Structuring Economics Courses to Improve Learning”, joint with Melissa Famulari, December 2024

“Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences of Ability Tracking: Evidence from Texas Public Schools,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series No. 30370, August 2022

“Statistical Discrimination and Intergenerational Income Mobility,” March 2006.

“Persistent Racial Income Inequality,” July 2004.