Publications
Applied Econometrics
A Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments, with Kirill Borusyak & Xavier Jaravel
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2025. Appendix
Design-Based Identification with Formula Instruments: A Review, with Kirill Borusyak & Xavier Jaravel
Econometrics Journal, 2025
Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions, with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham & Michal Kolesár
American Economic Review, 2024. Appendix | Code | Bluesky thread
Negative Weights are no Concern in Design-Based Specifications, with Kirill Borusyak
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024. Appendix | Twitter thread
Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks, with Kirill Borusyak
Econometrica, 2023. Twitter thread | Longer working paper | Code
Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness, with Joshua Angrist & Christopher Walters
Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2023. Code
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs, with Kirill Borusyak & Xavier Jaravel
Review of Economic Studies, 2022. Appendix | Code
Discrimination
Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement, with E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., & Natalia Emanuel
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Forthcoming Bluesky thread
Unwarranted Disparity in High-Stakes Decisions: Race Measurement and Policy Responses, with E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Natalia Emanuel, & Joseph Ryan
In CRIW Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, Forthcoming
Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement, with J. Aislinn Bohren & Alex Imas
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025. Appendix | Data and code | Twitter thread
Building Non-Discriminatory Algorithms in Selected Data, with David Arnold & Will Dobbie
American Economic Review: Insights, 2025. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread
Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection, with E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Natalia Emanuel, & Joseph Ryan
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions, with David Arnold & Will Dobbie
American Economic Review, 2022. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread | Presentation video
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms, with David Arnold & Will Dobbie
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021. Appendix | Code
Education
"Something Works" in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program, with Marcella Alsan, Arkey Barnett, & Crystal Yang
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025. Appendix | Code | Non-technical summary | Twitter thread
Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality, with Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
American Economic Review: Insights, 2024. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread
Credible School Value-Added with Undersubscribed School Lotteries, with Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread
Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation, with Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017. Appendix | Code
Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston, with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua Angrist, & Parag Pathak
American Economic Review, 2016. Appendix | Code | Video
Interpreting Tests of School VAM Validity, with Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2016. Code
Healthcare
Instrumental Variables in Clinical Research: Just What the Doctor Ordered, with Joshua Angrist & Carol Gao
JAMA, 2025
Instrumental Variables in Randomized Trials, with Joshua Angrist, Carol Gao, & Robert Yeh
NEJM Evidence, 2025
Instrumental Variables Methods Reconcile Intention-to-Screen Effects Across Pragmatic Cancer Screening Trials, with Joshua Angrist
PNAS, 2023. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread
Geographic Access to Federally Qualified Health Centers Before and After the Affordable Care Act, with Caroline Behr, John Hsu, Joseph Newhouse, & Vicki Fung
BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans, with Jason Abaluck, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, & Amanda Starc
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread | Summary video
Payment Discrepancies and Access to Primary Care Physicians for Dual-Eligible Medicare-Medicaid Beneficiaries, with Vicki Fung, Stephen McCarthy, Mary Price, Benjamin Lê Cook, John Hsu, & Joseph Newhouse
Medical Care, 2021
Assessment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Increase in Fees for Primary Care and Access to Care for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries, with Vicki Fung, Mary Price, Benjamin Lê Cook, John Hsu, & Joseph Newhouse
JAMA Open, 2021
The Impact of Funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers on Utilization and Emergency Department Visits in Massachusetts, with Catherine Myong, Mary Price, John Hsu, Joseph Newhouse, & Vicki Fung
PLOS One, 2020
Access to Care Among Medicaid and Uninsured Patients in Community Health Centers After the Affordable Care Act, with Veri Seo, Travis Baggett, Anne Thorndike, John Hsu, Joseph Newhouse, & Vicki Fung
BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Adjusting Risk Adjustment - Accounting for Variation in Diagnostic Intensity, with Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Gentzkow, & Heidi Williams
New England Journal of Medicine, 2017. Appendix | Code | Data
Other Topics
Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics, 2025
Labor by Design: Contributions of David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens, with Michal Kolesár & Christopher Walters
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Foreign Interest Rate Movements, with Masami Imai
Journal of Development Economics, 2013
Does Taxation on Banks Mean Taxation on Bank-Dependent Borrowers?, with Masami Imai
Economics Bulletin, 2012
Credit Ratings and Security Prices in the Subprime MBS Market, with Adam Ashcraft, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, & James Vickery
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2011