Making a Song and Dance About It: The Effectiveness of Teaching Children Vocabulary with Animated Music Videos (Forthcoming at Education Finance & Policy)
with A. Kalil, S. Mayer, P. Oreopoulos

A Digital Library for Parent-Child Shared Reading Improves Literacy Skills for Young Disadvantaged Children (2026, European Economic Review, Volume 186). Previously circulated as "Nudging or Nagging? Conflicting Effects of Behavioral Tools".
with A. Kalil, H. Liu, S. Mayer, D. Rury

Closing Early Math Gaps by Parental Education with Technology at Home (2026, Economics of Education Review, Volume 111).
with D. Bresciani, A. Kalil, H. Liu, S. Mayer

Engaging Parents with Preschools: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2026, Applied Economics, Volume 58, Issue 9).
with A. Kalil, S. Mayer

What Drives Educational Technology Adoption? Evidence from Two Experiments (2025, Economics Letters, Volume 257).
with D. Bresciani, A. Kalil, M. Michelini

Boosting Parent-Child Math Engagement and Preschool Children’s Math Skills: Evidence from an RCT with Low-Income Families (2023, Economics of Education Review, Volume 95)
with S. Mayer, A. Kalil, W. Delgado, H. Liu, D. Rury

Scarcity and Inattention (2023, Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, Volume 7, Issue 1)
with Ariel Kalil & Susan Mayer

The Impact of Team Incentives on Performance in Graduate School: Evidence from Two Pilot RCTs (2022, Economics Letters, Volume 221; Previously: NBER WP 30374)
with John List

How Cognitive Biases Can Undermine Program Scale-Up Decisions (2021, Book Chapter in The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy; Routledge.)
with Susan Mayer & Ariel Kalil

Working Papers

When the Student Becomes the Master: A Field Experiment on Learning by Teaching
Funding by J-PAL, U.S. Dept of HHS, and the Horowitz Foundation. 

The Tradeoff between Quality and Quantity: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Tutoring
Partnership with KIPP & Support from Accelerate.

A Word is Worth a Thousand Words: Biased Beliefs about Political Language Use

Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Family Dynamics in Economically Vulnerable Households (2020, Permanent WP)
with A. Kalil, S. Mayer

Replication Files

Click for replication files for projects where I led the data analysis: Replication Files.