Research Interests

Econometrics; Productivity & Efficiency Analysis; Spatial & Network Econometrics; Big-data/Large-dimensional Models & Shrinkage; Racial Profiling

Publications

1. What Makes a Classmate a Peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools (with W. Horrace, J. Presler and A. Schwartz). Journal of Population Economics (2025) 38:52. [working paper version]

2. Shared Hardships Strengthen Bonds in Employment: Negative Shocks, Embeddedness and Employee Retention (with A. Balthrop). Journal of Business Logistics, (2025) 46:e70017. [working paper version]

3. The Conditional Mode in Parametric Frontier Models (with W. Horrace and Y. Yang). Journal of Productivity Analysis (2023) 60 333-343. [working paper version]

4. LASSO for Stochastic Frontier Models with Many Efficient Firms (with W. Horrace and Y. Lee).  Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (2023) 41:4 1132-1142. [working paper version]

5. Network Competition and Team Chemistry in the NBA (with W. Horrace and S. Sanders).  Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (2022) 40:1 35-49. [working paper version]

6. How artificial intelligence will affect the future of retailing (with A. Guha, D. Grewal, P. Kopalle, M. Haenlein, M. Schneider, R. Moustafa, D. Hegde and G. Hawkins). Journal of Retailing (2021) 97: 28-41. [Published Copy]

7. Stochastic Frontier Models with Network Selectivity (with W. Horrace), Journal of Productivity Analysis (2018) 50: 101-116. [working paper version]

Working Papers

• Testing for Peer Effects without Specifying the Network Structure (with X. Liu) [working paper version, R&R at the Journal of Econometrics]

• Mass Shootings, Community Mobility, and the Relocation of Economic Activity (with M. Cuellar) [working paper version, appendix]

• Duration Models for Non-repeated Events: a Generalized Correlated Random Effects Approach (With J. Yoon) [working paper version]

• Police Officer Experience and Racial Bias over the U.S. Great Recession (with W. Horrace and S. Rohlin) [working paper version]

• Test for Network Structure (with X. Liu) [working paper version]

• Model Selection via SSE Ratios (with Y. Lee)

Work in Progress

• The Impact of Animal-Crossing Structures on Roadkill and Road Safety (with D. Park and T. Young)

• Spatial Synthetic Control (with X. Liu)

• The Impact of Mass Shootings on Local Government Financing (M. Settlage)

• Bounded Outcome and Violation of Parallel Trends 

• Peer Effects in Swimming