Mark Hoekstra

The Scale and Nature of Neighborhood Effects on Children: Evidence from a Danish Social Housing Experiment (with Stephen B. Billings and Gabriel Pons Rotger) (pdf)

Illegal Immigration: The Trump Effect (with Sandra Orozco-Aleman) (pdf)

The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon  (with Pierre Mouganie), forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources (pdf)

The Effect of School and Neighborhood Peers on Achievement, Misbehavior, and Adult Crime (with Stephen B. Billings), Journal of Labor Economics 2023, 41(3): 643-685 (pdf)

Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force?  Evidence from 911 Calls (with CarlyWill Sloan), American Economic Review 2022, 112(3): 827-860 (pdf) 

The Effect of Own-Gender Jurors on Conviction Rates (with Brittany Street), Journal of Law and Economics  2021, 64(3): 513-537(pdf)

(Almost) No One Votes Without ID, Even When They Can (with Vijetha Koppa), Economics Letters 2021, 205: 1-3 (pdf)

The Impact of College Diversity on Behavior Toward Minorities (with Scott E. Carrell and James West), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2019, 11(4): 159-182. (pdf)

The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers (with Scott E. Carrell and Elira Kuka),  American Economic Review 2018, 108(11): 3377-3415 (pdf)

Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools (with Pierre Mouganie and Yaojing Wang), Journal of Labor Economics 2018, 36(4): 841-884 (pdf)

Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence (with Sandra Orozco-Aleman), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2017, 9(2): 225-252 (pdf)

Vehicle Miles (Not) Traveled:  Why Fuel Economy Requirements Don't Increase Household Driving (with Jeremy West, Jonathan Meer, and Steven L. Puller), Journal of Public Economics 2017, 145: 65-81 (pdf)

Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending (with Steven L. Puller and Jeremy West), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2017, 9(3): 1-35 (pdf) (VoxEU column)

Are School Counselors an Effective Education Input? (with Scott E. Carrell), Economics Letters 2014, 125(1): 66-69 (pdf)

Bank Privatization, Finance, and Growth (with Daniel Berkowitz and Koen Schoors), Journal of Development Economics 2014, 110: 93-106 (pdf)

Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence?  Evidence from Expansions to Castle Doctrine (with Cheng Cheng), Journal of Human Resources 2013, 48 (3): 821-854 (pdf) (Stata files) (homicide data in Excel format) (description of methodology)

Family Business or Social Problem?  The Cost of Unreported Domestic Violence (with Scott E. Carrell), Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 2012, 31 (4): 861-875 (pdf)

Is Poor Fitness Contagious?  Evidence from Randomly Assigned Friends (with Scott E. Carrell and James West),  Journal of Public Economics 2011, 95 (7-8): 657-663 (pdf)

The Ticket to Easy Street?  The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery (with Scott Hankins and Paige Marta Skiba),  Review of Economics and Statistics 2011, 93 (3): 961-969 (pdf)

Does Drinking Impair College Performance?  Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach (with Scott E. Carrell and James West), Journal of Public Economics 2011, 95 (1-2): 54-62 (pdf)

Does High School Quality Matter?  Evidence from Admissions Data (with Daniel Berkowitz), Economics of Education Review 2011, 30 (2): 280-288 (pdf)

Lucky in Life, Unlucky in Love?  The Effect of Random Income Shocks on Marriage and Divorce (with Scott Hankins),  Journal of Human Resources 2011, 46 (2): 403-426 (pdf)

Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids (with Scott E. Carrell),  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2010, 2 (1): 211-228 (pdf)

The Effect of Attending the Flagship State University on Earnings: A Discontinuity-Based Approach, Review of Economics and Statistics 2009, 91 (4):  717-724 (pdf) (appendices)

ECON 315 - Sports Economics