Working Papers:
Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap, with Nathan Wozny (June 2009).
The Unintended Consequences of Encouraging Work: Tax Incidence and the EITC (updated: May 2008). Note: This paper previously circulated as "The Mid-1990s EITC Expansion: Aggregate Labor Supply Effects and Economic Incidence."
Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices, with Cecilia Rouse (updated: December 2008).
Mismatch in Law School, with Albert Yoon (updated: May 2009).
SAT Scores, High Schools, and Collegiate Performance Predictions (June 2005).
Published & Forthcoming:
Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement (May 2009). Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics. Click here for the appendix. Note: This paper previously circulated as "Do Value-Added Models Add Value?"
Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping, with David Card and Alexandre Mas (March 2008). Forthcoming, How Place Matters, Eugenie Birch and Susan Wachter, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press.
Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence (May 2009). Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Click here for the appendix.
The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design, with Stephanie Cellini and Fernando Ferreira (March 2009). Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Student Sorting and Bias in Value Added Estimation: Selection on Observables and Unobservables. January 2009. Forthcoming, Education Finance and Policy.
Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores (with Melissa Clark and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach). Economics of Education Review, volume 28, issue3 (June 2009), pp. 295-307. Free version.
Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do? (with Albert Yoon). University of Chicago Law Review, volume 75, issue 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 649-714.
Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation (with David Card and Alexandre Mas). Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 123, issue 1 (February 2008), pp. 177-218.
Does
Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? A Comment on Hoxby (2000).
American Economic Review, volume 97, issue 5 (December 2007), pp. 2026-2037.
Click
here
for programs, supplementary material, and a
rejoinder
to Professor Hoxby's Reply.
Racial
Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap (with David Card).
Journal of Public Economics, volume 91, issue 11-12 (December 2007), pp. 2158-2184.
See also:
(1) Last pre-publication draft;
(2) data appendix.
Good
Principals or Good Peers: Parental Valuation of School
Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive Effects of
Competition Among Jurisdictions.
American Economic Review, volume 96, issue 4 (September 2006), pp. 1333-1350.
See also:
(1) Last pre-publication draft;
(2) appendices;
(3) data archive (Warning: 23MB).
Race,
Income, and College in 25 Years: The Continuing Legacy of Segregation and Discrimination,
(with Alan Krueger and Sarah Turner).
American Law and Economics Review, volume 8, issue 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 282-311.
See also:
Last pre-publication draft
Was Justice O’Connor Right? Race and Highly Selective College Admissions in 25 Years, (with Alan Krueger and Sarah Turner). In Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro, editors, College Access: Opportunity or Privilege. 2006. New York: The College Board. Pp. 35-46.
College
Performance Predictions and the SAT.
Journal of Econometrics, volume 121, issue 1-2 (July-August 2004), pp. 297-317.
See also:
(1) Last pre-publication draft;
(2) Woodrow Wilson School Policy Brief.
Updated: May 2009
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