Working Papers

Applied Econometrics

Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications. With Kirill Borusyak

Updated January 2021. Submitted. Twitter thread | Presentation video

Estimating Treatment Effects in Mover Designs

Updated April 2018

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

Updated February 2018

Discrimination

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

Updated February 2021. Twitter thread

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions. With David Arnold & Will Dobbie

Updated October 2020. Submitted. Twitter thread

Education

Simple and Credible Value-Added Estimation Using Centralized School Assignment. With Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters

Updated December 2020. Submitted. Twitter thread

Healthcare

Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans. With Jason Abaluck, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, & Amanda Starc

Updated July 2020. Revision requested, Quarterly Journal of Economics. Twitter thread

Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-Experimental Data

Updated January 2020