The Fertility Effect of Laws Granting Undocumented Migrants Access to Driving Licenses in the United States. Journal of Human Capital. Accepted [GLO Discussion Paper No. 1094 here]
Drug Decriminalization and Fatal Traffic Crashes: Evidence from BM110 in Oregon (With Yuyan Shi). Health Economics. 2025. [Pre-publication Version here]
The Unintended Consequence of Stringent Immigration Enforcement on Staffing Levels in Nursing Homes: Evidence from Secure Communities. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2024 [Pre-publication Version here]
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Use Mandates and Prescription Stimulant and Depressant Quantities (With Yuyan Shi). BMC Public Health. 23:1326, 2023. Open Access
Association Between Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Use Mandates and Prescription Stimulants Received By Medicaid Enrollees (With Yuyan Shi). Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(1): 1658-1666, 2023 [Pre-publication version here. Supp. Materials here]
The Inflow of Refugees and the Educational Attainment of U.S. Natives: Evidence from Mariel Boatlift. International Migration Review. 2023 [Pre-publication version here]
How Do People Respond When They Know That Robots Will Take Their Jobs? (With Hanbyul Ryu). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2023 [Pre-publication version here]
Association of Recreational Cannabis Legalization With Cannabis Possession Arrest Rates in the US (with Yuyan Shi). JAMA Network Open. 5(12):e2244922, 2022. Open Access
Does Expanding Access to Cannabis Affect Traffic Crashes? County-Level Evidence from Recreational Marijuana Dispensary Sales in Colorado. Health Economics. 31(10): 2244-2268, 2022 [GLO Discussion Paper 964 here]
Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Transitions in Cannabis Use: Findings from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Cohort in the United States (with Bin Zhu and Yuyan Shi). Addiction. 2022. [Pre-publication version here. Supp. Materials here]
Cannabis Decriminalization and Racial Disparity in Arrests for Cannabis Possession (with Yuyan Shi). Social Science and Medicine. 293: 114672, 2022. [Pre-publication version here]
Tobacco Price and Use Following California Proposition 56 Tobacco Tax Increase (with Tarik Benmarhnia, Martha White, John P. Pierce, Sara B. McMenamin, Eric C. Leas, and Yuyan Shi). PLoS One. 16(10): e0257553, 2021. Open Access
Does the Rise of Robotic Technology Make People Healthier? (with Hanbyul Ryu). Health Economics. 30(9): 2047-2062, 2021. [Pre-publication version here]
The Labour Market Effects of Venezuelan Refugee Crisis in the United States. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2021. [Pre-publication version here]
Does Immigrant Legalization Affect Crime? Evidence from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in the United States. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 178: 327-353, 2020. [Pre-publication version here]
Immigration and the Health of U.S. Natives. Southern Economic Journal. 86(4): 1278-1306, 2020. [Pre-publication version here]
Examining the Impact of Legal Arizona Worker Act on Native Female Labor Supply in the United States. IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 10(1), 2020. Open Access
An Inquiry on the Impact of Highly-skilled STEM Immigration on the US Economy. Labour Economics. 61, 2019. [Pre-publication version here]
On the Association Between Undocumented Immigration and Crime in the United States. Oxford Economic Papers. 2019. [Pre-publication version here]
The Legacy of Slavery on Hate Crime in the United States. Research in Economics, 73(4): 339-344, 2019. [Pre-publication version here]
Interior immigration enforcement policy and the subjective well-being of US residents: evidence from secure communities. Applied Economics Letters, 26 (18): 1-8, 2019. [Pre-publication version here]
Does stricter immigration policy affect college enrollment and public-private school choice of natives? IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 8 (1): 25, 2018. Open Access
Month of birth and child height in 40 countries (with Agarwal, Neha, Anaka Aiyar, Arpita Bhattacharjee, Joseph Cummins, Deepak Singhania, Matthew Taylor, and Evan Wigton-Jones) Economics Letters 157 (2017): 10-13. [Pre-publication version here]
Hypothetical Willingness-to-Pay for Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements and Micronutrient Powders for Children in Bangladesh (Washington, DC: FHI 360/FANTA, April 2018)
with Joseph Cummins, Stephen A. Vosti, Malay K.Mridha, Susana L. Matias, Zeina Maalouf-Manasseh and Kathryn G. Dewey)