Research

Working Papers

• Breastfeeding and Child Development Outcomes across Early Childhood and Adolescence: Doubly Robust Estimation with Machine Learning (with Mohsan Khudri). 

• Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Burnout: A Longitudinal Analysis (with Enrica Riggs, Wendy Bedwell, Dave Arena, and Frances Fabian). 

• Mentor Prestige, Job Market Singals, and Career Outcomes in Economics (with Sheena Murray and Wendy Stock). 

• The Entrepreneurial Personality of Aspiring Business Professionals: Expectations and Actual SelfEmployment (with Carmen Astorne-Figari and Daniel Mangrum). 

• The Long-Term Impacts of Breastfeeding on Educational Attainment of Adults (with Mohsan Khudri). 

• Explaining the Rural-Urban Gaps in Women’s Nutritional Outcomes in Bangladesh: Evidence from Counterfactual Decomposition Methods (with Mohsan Khudri and Ahmad Reshad Osmani). 

• Investigating Gender Differentials in Earnings and Returns to Coauthorship in Economics (with Nicholas Kanamaru). 

• A Labor Market Punishing to Mothers: Opting Out and Gender Gaps in Earnings and Labor Supply Among MBAs (with Wayne Grove). 

Works in Progress

• How Heuristics, Biases and Political Ideology Shape Understanding of Markets and Government (with Eric Groenendyk). 

• Occupational Earnings Inequality and Gender Disparities in Non-work at Work (with Dariya Ainekova). 

• Advisor Selection in Economics (with Sheena Murray and Wendy Stock). The Role of Intercollegiate Atheletics in University Giving (with David Kemme, Mohsan Khudri, and Rabinson Pahiju). 

Publications

• Gender-based Disparities in Loneliness under Shelter in Place Orders (with Jobu Babin and Marine Foray), forthcoming, Applied Economics Letters. 

• Gender Penalties and Solidarity: Teaching Evaluation Differentials In and Out of STEM (with Jobu Babin), 2023, Economics Letters 226: 111083. 

• Gender, Coauthorship, and Scholarly Productivity in Economics (with Sheena Murray and Wendy Stock), 2022, Economic Inquiry 60(2): 465-484.

•  Shelter-in-Place Orders, Loneliness, and Cooperative Behavior (with Jobu Babin and Marine Foray), 2021, Economics & Human Biology 43: 101056. 

• Beauty premiums among academics (with Jobu Babin, Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, and David Taylor), 2020, Economics of Education Review 78: 102019. 

• The Fundamental Determinants of Economic Inequality in Average Income Across Countries: The Declining Role of Political Institutions (with Michael Jetter and Dianne McWilliam), 2020, Review of Income and Wealth 61(1): 104-133. 

• The Role of Confidence and Noncognitive Skills for Post-Baccalaureate Academic and Labor Market Outcomes (with Weiwei Chen and Wayne Grove), 2017, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 138: 10-29. 

• Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States (with Michael Jetter), 2017, Applied Economics 17: 1147-63. 

• Disruption in Parental Co-habitation on Short-term, Medium-term and Long-term Outcomes of Adolescents (with Debjani Kanjilal and Anil Nathan), 2016, Journal of Family and Economic Issues 37(1): 58-74.

• Experimental Evidence of the Effects of an Early Intervention Program on Economics Student Outcomes (with Doug Campbell), 2015, Applied Economics Letters 22(11): 895-899. 

• Greek Organization Membership and Collegiate Outcomes at an Elite Private University (with Nathan Martin and Jay Walker), 2015, Research in Higher Education 56(3): 203-227. 

• Adolescent Obesity, Educational Attainment, and Adult Earnings (with John Amis and Albert Okunade), 2014, Applied Economics Letters 21(13): 945-50.

•  AIDing Contraception: HIV and Recent Trends in Abortion Rates (with Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy and Jay Walker), 2014, Applied Economics 46(15): 1788-1803. 

• Preferential Admission and MBA Outcomes: Mismatch Effects by Race and Gender (with Wayne Grove), 2014, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Advances) 14(3): 613-668. 

• Returns to MBA Quality: Pecuniary and No-Pecuniary Returns to Peers, Faculty, and Institution Quality (with Wayne Grove), 2014, Labour Economics 26: 43-54. 

• Racial Segregation Patterns in Selective Universities (with Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, and Kenneth Spenner), 2013, Journal of Law and Economics 56(4): 1039-60. 

• Effects of Peers and Social Environment on Adolescent Psychological Well-Being (with Debjani Kanjilal and Albert Okunade), 2013, International Journal of Business & Economics 3(2): 69-83. 

• The Payoff to School Selectivity: An Application of Dale and Krueger’s Method to MBA Programs (with Weiwei Chen and Wayne Grove), 2012, Economics Letters 116(2): 247-249. 

• Human Capital Augmentation Versus the Signaling Value of MBA Education, 2012, Economics of Education Review 31(4): 442-451. 

• The Gender Pay Gap Beyond Human Capital: Heterogeneity in Noncognitive Skills and in Labor Market Tastes (with Wayne Grove and Michael Jetter), 2011, Journal of Human Resources 46(4): 827–874. 

• The Effect of Ethics on Labor Market Success: Evidence from MBA Graduates, 2011, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80(1): 168–180. 

• Estimating the Ex Ante Expected Returns to College (with Omari Swinton), 2011, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 101(3): 598–602. 

• Returns to Field of Study Versus School Quality: MBA Selection on Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity (with Wayne Grove), 2011, Economic Inquiry 49(3): 730–749. 

• The Effects of Focused Area of Study on Self-Reported Skill Gains and Satisfaction of MBA Graduates, 2009, Journal of Global Business Management 5(2): 112-119. 

• Overweight Adolescents and On-time High School Graduation: Racial and Gender Disparities (with Albert Okunade and Mustafa Karakus), 2009, Atlantic Economic Journal 35(3): 225–242. 

• The Economic Returns to an MBA (with Peter Arcidiacono and Jane Cooley), 2008, International Economic Review 49(3): 873–899.