Academic Journal Publications (Including Accepted Work)
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Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effects of Public Housing Demolition on Children. American Economic Review. October 2018. Publication Link.
Press Coverage: New York Times, Marginal Revolution, The Atlantic: Citylab, The American Prospect, Slate, Mother Jones, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, AEA Research Highlights
Previous Version: 2016 Working Paper Draft (Longer)
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Housing Voucher Take-Up and Labor Market Impacts (with Josh Hyman and Max Kapustin). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Winter 2019. Publication Link.
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Advertising and Environmental Stewardship: Evidence from the BP Oil Spill (with Lint Barrage and Justine Hastings). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. February 2020. Publication Link.
Press Coverage: Harvard Business Review, AEA Research Highlights
Available as NBER Working Paper #19838.
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Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi (with Lasse Brune and Jason Kerwin). Journal of Human Resources. July 2022. Publication Link.
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The Returns to Early-life Interventions for Very Low Birth Weight Children (with Samantha Gold and Justine Hastings). Journal of Health Economics. January 2021. Publication Link.
Press Coverage: Brookings: Hutchins Roundup
Available as NBER Working Paper #25753.
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The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity (with Stephen Billings and Kareem Haggag). American Economic Review: Insights. September 2021. Publication Link.
Press Coverage: The Washington Post, New York Times, AEA Research Highlights
Available as NBER Working Paper #27302. Ungated Link to PDF.
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Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments (with Lasse Brune and Jason Kerwin). American Economic Review. July 2021. Publication Link.
Press Coverage: AEA Research Highlights, VoxDev
Available as NBER Working Paper #28611.
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Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects (with Lawrence Katz). Journal of Economic Perspectives. November 2021. Publication Link.
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The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes (with Anthony Bald, Justine Hastings and Margarita Machelett). NBER Working Paper #25419. Journal of Political Economy. July 2022. Publication Link.
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Moved to Vote: The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhoods on Political Participation (with Kareem Haggag). Review of Economics and Statistics. November 2023. Publication Link.
Available as NBER Working Paper #26515.
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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity (with Cavit Baran and Bryan Stuart). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. July 2024. Publication Link.
Selected Work in Progress
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The Demographic Legacy of the Vietnam War: Evidence from the 1969 Draft Lottery (with Martha Bailey). (Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Human Resources).
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Family- and Place-based Determinants of Early-Life Health (with Na'ama Shenhav). (Conditionally Accepted at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy).
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Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner's Guide (with Brigham Frandsen and Emily Leslie) (Commissioned by the Journal of Economic Literature)
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The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux (with Robert Collinson and Danielle Sandler). (Conditionally Accepted at the Quarterly Journal of Economics).
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Equilibrium Effects of Neighborhood Interventions (with Diego Daruich). (Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Review).
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The Effects of Urban Renewal Programs on Gentrification and Inequality (with Milena Almagro and Bryan Stuart).
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The Impact of Disadvantaged Peers: Evidence from Resettlement after Public Housing Demolition.
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Does Gifted Education Work? (with David Card and Laura Giuliano). (Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy).
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The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement (with Kareem Haggag and Bryan Stuart). NBER Working Paper #30563.
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Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-selection and Match Effects (with Chris Campos and Jesse Bruhn). NBER Working Paper #31542.
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Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen's Bureau (with Kareem Haggag and Bryan Stuart). NBER Working Paper #32314.
Other Academic Publications
- The Demographic Effects of Dodging the Vietnam Draft. (with Martha Bailey). American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings. May 2020.