Working Papers

Applied Econometrics 

Estimating Structural Models of Demand with Recentered Instruments. With Kirill Borusyak and Mauricio Cáceres Bravo

In progress

Efficient Estimation with Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks. With Kirill Borusyak

Updated December 2021

Crime 

"Something Works" in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program. With Marcella Alsan, Arkey Barnett, & Crystal Yang

Updated November 2024. Resubmitted, Quarterly Journal of Economics. Non-technical summary. Twitter thread

Discrimination

Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement. With J. Aislinn Bohren & Alex Imas

Updated December 2023. Reject and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics. Twitter thread

Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement. With E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., & Natalia Emanuel

Updated May 2024. Resubmitted, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

What Marginal Outcome Tests Can Tell Us About Racially Biased Decision-Making 

Updated February 2021. Twitter thread 

Education

Putting School Surveys to the Test. With Joshua Angrist, Russell Legate-Yang, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters

Updated October 2024

Healthcare 

Instrumental Variables with Time-Varying Exposure: New Estimates of Revascularization Effects on Quality of Life, With Joshua Angrist, Bruno Ferman, Carol Gao, Otavio Tecchio, & Robert Yeh 

Updated November 2024

Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians. With Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matthew Gentzkow

Updated September 2023.  Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

Temporarily Resting

Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-Experimental Data

Updated January 2020

Estimating Treatment Effects in Mover Designs

Updated April 2018

IsoLATEing: Identifying Counterfactual-Specific Treatment Effects with Cross-Stratum Comparisons

Updated February 2018