Research

Education

• Who gets what may not matter: understanding school match effects. With Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Parag Pathak. Draft coming soon.

• Augmenting state capacity for child development: experimental evidence from India. With Alejandro Ganimian and Karthik Muralidharan. Journal of Political Economy 132(5), 2024.

• Race and the mismeasure of school quality. With Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, and Parag Pathak. American Economic Review: Insights 6(1), 2024.

• Credible school value-added with undersubscribed school lotteries. With Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, and Parag Pathak. Review of Economics and Statistics 106(1), 2024.

• The long-term effects of universal preschool in Boston. With Guthrie Gray-Lobe and Parag Pathak. Quarterly Journal of Economics 138(1), 2023.

• Can successful schools replicate? Scaling up Boston's charter school sector. With Sarah Cohodes and Elizabeth Setren. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13(1), 2021.

• Do parents value school effectiveness? With Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag Pathak, and Jonathan Schellenberg. American Economic Review 110(5), 2020.

• The demand for effective charter schools. Journal of Political Economy 126(6), 2018.

• Free to choose: can school choice reduce student achievement? With Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Parag Pathak. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 10(1), 2018.

• Leveraging lotteries for school value-added: testing and estimation. With Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, and Parag Pathak. Quarterly Journal of Economics 132(2), 2017. Related AEA P&P.

• The impact of price caps and spending cuts on US postsecondary attainment. With David Deming. NBER working paper no. 23736, 2017.

• Evaluating public programs with close substitutes: the case of Head Start. With Patrick Kline. Quarterly Journal of Economics 131(4), 2016. Corrigendum.

• Stand and deliver: effects of Boston's charter high schools on college preparation, entry, and choice. With Joshua Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, and Parag Pathak. Journal of Labor Economics 34(2), 2016.

• Inputs in the production of early childhood human capital: evidence from Head Start. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7(4), 2015.

• Explaining charter school effectiveness. With Joshua Angrist and Parag Pathak. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5(4), 2013.

• Who benefits from KIPP? With Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas Kane, and Parag Pathak. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 31(4), 2012. Related AEA P&P.

Discrimination

• A discrimination report card. With Patrick Kline and Evan Rose. American Economic Review, forthcoming.

• Systemic discrimination among large US employers. With Patrick Kline and Evan Rose. Quarterly Journal of Economics 137(4), 2022. 

• Adaptive correspondence experiments. With Hadar Avivi, Patrick Kline, and Evan Rose. AEA Papers and Proceedings 111, 2021.

• Reasonable doubt: experimental detection of job-level employment discrimination. With Patrick Kline. Econometrica 89(2), 2021.

Econometrics

• Empirical Bayes methods in labor economics. In preparation for Handbook of Labor Economics. Draft coming soon.

• Policy evaluation with multiple instrumental variables. With Magne Mogstad and Alexander Torgovitsky. Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

• Methods for measuring school effectiveness. With Joshua Angrist and Peter Hull. Handbook of the Economics of Education Volume 7, 2023.

• The causal interpretation of two-stage least squares with multiple instrumental variables. With Magne Mogstad and Alexander Torgovitsky. American Economic Review 111(11), 2021.

• On Heckits, LATE, and numerical equivalence. With Patrick Kline. Econometrica 87(2), 2019.

Other writing

• Labor by design: contributions of David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens. Scandanavian Journal of Economics 124(3), 2023.

• Do subsidized housing units depreciate faster than unsubsidized ones?  Journal of Housing Economics 18(1), 2009.