Published and accepted work

Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century
with Ilyana Kuziemko & Suresh Naidu
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 133, 2025.  [Online appendix] [Replication Package]

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020
with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Santiago Pérez, & Juan David Torres
Accepted at American Economic Review: Insights.  [NBER Working Paper]

Featured in: Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy
Media coverage: The New York Times, The New York Times (x2), The Washington Post, The Washington Post (x2), NPR, CNN, Los Angeles Times, The Smerconish Podcast, El País, Newsweek, USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters

The Effect of Immigration Enforcement on Crime Reporting: Evidence from Dallas
Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 128, 2022.  [Online appendix] 

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries
with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, & Santiago Pérez
American Economic Review, Vol. 111, February 2021.  [Online appendix] [NBER Working Paper]

Featured in: NBER Digest
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Working papers

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrants
with Felipe Gonçalves and Emily Weisburst
[Supplemental appendix] [NBER Working Paper]

Featured in: NBER Digest, Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy

Mental Health and Criminal Involvement: Evidence from Losing Medicaid Eligibility

Summarized in: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Policy Brief, Econimate
Media coverage: Probable Causation, Freakonomics MD

The Effect of Mass Incarceration on Black Women