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“The Intergenerational Transmission of Food Security: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis,” (with Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider), February 2026. FS-Generations
“The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People Who are Blind or Vision-Impaired,” (with Chris Clapp, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), November 2024. Blind
“Measurement of Learning Disabilities and Intellectual Disabilities: Racial Patterns and Labor Market Biases in RSA-911 Data,” (with Chris Clapp, Steven Stern and Robert Schmidt) Journal of Human Capital, 2024, 18(3). LD
“Causal Effects of Mental Health on Food Security,” (with Greder, Jensen, Kreider and Zhylyevskyy), Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 92. MI
Best Economics Paper Award, Food Safety and Nutrition section of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Honorable Mention, 2024.
“Reexamining the Evidence on Gun Ownership and Homicide Using Proxy Measures of Ownership,” (with K. Chalak, D. Kim and M. Miller), Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208. Proxy
"Does the Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) Improve Infant Health Outcomes?" (with Brent Kreider and Manan Roy), Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58(4). WIC
“How do Right-to-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping with Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions,” (with Charles Manski), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(2): 232-244. RTC
"The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People with Mental Illness,: (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(3), 826-858. MI
“Identifying the Effects of SNAP (Food Stamps) on the Nutritional Health of Children when Program Participation is Misreported,” (with Craig Gunderson, Dean Jolliffe, and Brent Kreider), Journal of the American Statistical Association, (JASA), 107(499), September 2012, 958-975. SNAP
Evaluation of State Vocational Rehabilitation Services: Return on Investment (VR-ROI) Models and Results, with Chris Clapp, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern, Springer, June 2025. VR Book
Deterrence and the Death Penalty, National Research Council, Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty; Committee on Law and Justice; Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, 2012, (Editor with Daniel S. Nagin). Death Penalty
Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, National Research Council, Committee on Law and Justice and Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C., 2004 (with Carol V. Petrie, Charles F. Wellford). Firearms
Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us, National Research Council, Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2001. (with Charles F. Manski and Carol Petrie). Drugs
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