Work in Progress

• The geographic distribution of risk and time preferences in the United States. (Joint with Christopher G Gibbs, Isaac Swensen and Eric Ulm)

• Are Students’ Goals, Grades and Fights Influenced by Friday Night Lights? (Joint with Yu-Wei Luke Chu and Nguyen Doan)  (SSRN)

• Gender Wage Gap and Child Employment Penalty Across Countries. (Joint with Yu-Wei Luke Chu and Nguyen Doan) (SSRN)

• Does more instruction in primary school improve secondary school outcomes? A re-evaluation of recent work. (Joint with Matthew Amos) (SSRN)

Selected Published Work

• “Do Academically Struggling Students Benefit From Continued Student Loan Access? Evidence From University and Beyond,” (with Luke Chu) Review of Economics and Statistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01144.

• "Income and extratropical cyclones in New Zealand."  (with Apurba Roy and Ilan Noy). Journal of environmental management, 311 (2022): 114852.

• “Returns to teaching repetition - the effect of short-term teaching experience on Student Outcomes,” (with Jan Feld and Trevor O'Grady) Education Finance and Policy, 16.3 (2021): 516-532.

• “Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change: the Pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu,” (with Tauisi Taupo and Ilan Noy), Environmental Economics and Policy Studies,  Volume 20, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 705-739.

• “The Effect of Payday Lending on Liquor Sales,” (with Christopher Gibbs), Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 85, 2017, Pages 132-145. 

• “Rain and museum attendance: Are daily data fine enough?" Journal of Cultural Economics, Volume 42, Issue 2, May 2018, Pages 213-241.

• “Can School Sports Reduce Racial Gaps in Truancy and Achievement?” (with Glen Waddell and Wesley Bignell), Economic Inquiry, Volume 55, Issue 4, October 2017, Pages 1966-1985.

• “Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living,” (with William Harbaugh, Jason Lindo, and Giancarlo Musto, and Glen Waddell), Economics of Education Review, Volume 31, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages 1028-1036.