Work in progress

• The Ratchet Effect and Government Performance Targets: Small Business Goals in U.S. Federal Procurement, October 2024, R+R Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.

• A Bid Strategy for Earlier Payment: Evidence and Implications of Front-End Loading in Procurement, (with Benjamin Rosa) March 2025

Publications

• "Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills,"  (with Jeremy West), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 16 (3), 219-249, July 2024.

• "Why did firms practice segregation? Evidence from movie theaters during Jim Crow," (with Ricard Gil), March 2022. Journal of Law and Economics 65:4, p. 635-663, November 2022.

• "Residential Segregation, Discrimination, and African-American Theater Entry During Jim Crow," (with Ricard Gil) Journal of Urban Economics 108: p. 18-35, November 2018.

• "Tax compliance and fiscal externalities: Evidence from U.S. diesel taxation," (with Erich Muehlegger), Journal of Public Economics 160: p. 1-13, April 2018.

• "Affirmative Action Exemptions and Capacity Constrained Firms," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9:3, p. 377-407, August 2017.

• "Does Tax-Collection Invariance Hold? Evasion and the Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes," (with Wojciech Kopczuk, Erich Muehlegger, and Joel Slemrod), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8:2, p. 251-86, 2016.  Working paper version     NBER Digest Coverage    Vox Summary

• "Sourcing from the Enemy: Horizontal Subcontracting in Highway Procurement," Journal of Industrial Economics 63:1, p. 100-128, 2015.

• "Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational Contracting: Evidence from California Highway Procurement," (with Ricard Gil) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 29:2, p. 239-77, April 2013.

• "Affirmative Action Programs and Business Ownership among Minorities and Women", (with Rob Fairlie) Small Business Economics, 39:2, p. 319-339, September 2012.

• "Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions," (with Erich Muehlegger) Journal of Public Economics 95:9-10, October 2011, p. 1202-1212.

• "Affirmative Action and the Utilization of Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses in Highway Procurement", February 2009, Economic Inquiry 49:3, p. 899-915, July 2011.

• "Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment," (with Carlos Dobkin and Ricard Gil) Economics of Education Review 29:4, p. 566-575, August 2010. Older working paper version

• "Firm Racial Segregation and Affirmative Action in the Highway Construction Industry", Small Business Economics 33:4, p. 441-453, December 2009.

• "How Costly is Affirmative Action? Government Contracting and California's Proposition 209", Review of Economics and Statistics 91:3, August 2009, p. 503-522.

• "The Effects of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments on Neighborhoods," (with Nathaniel Baum-Snow) Journal of Public Economics 93:5, June 2009, p. 654-666.

• "Measuring Illegal Activity and the Effects of Regulatory Innovation: Tax Evasion and the Dyeing of Untaxed Diesel", (with Erich Muehlegger) Journal of Political Economy 116:4, p.633-666, August 2008.

• "Are Bid Preferences Benign? The Effect of Small Business Subsidies in Highway Procurement Auctions", Journal of Public Economics 91:7-8, August 2007, p. 1591-1624.