Published and Accepted Papers

• “The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency”

  (with A. Brooks Bowden and Viviana Rodriguez)

  Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

  Media: The New York Times, The Economist, and The74‍ ‍

  Conferences/Seminars: AEFP (2023), University of Michigan Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (2023), Advanced Quantitative Methods and Analytics for Public Policy Support (2023)

Working Papers

• “Information Frictions and Teacher Turnover”

  (with Kristen Shure)

  Revision requested at International Economic Review

  Winner of the 2024 Paul Taubman Memorial Prize for Empirical Economics Research

  Conferences/Seminars: AEFP (2024), Godfrey Conference at the University of Georgia (2024), CESifo Venice Summer Institute: Funding Education (2024), Southern Economic Association (2024), The Econometric Society European Summer Meeting (2026)

• “Designing School Choice Admissions Policies: Insights from a Lottery-Based Reform”

  (with Sherrie Cheng) · Job Market Paper

  Under Review

  Conferences/Seminars: AEFP (2025), CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education (2025; poster), Sixth World Labor Conference hosted by Society of Labor Economists (2025), Toulouse School of Economics 2nd Economics of Education Workshop (2025), 3rd Structural Microeconomics Conference at Duke University (2025), ASSA 2027 Annual Meeting (scheduled)

• “Modeling and Measuring the Genetic Determinants of Child Development”

  (with Francesco Agostinelli) · NBER Working Paper 34427

  Under Review

  Media: Marginal Revolution

  Conferences/Seminars: University of Chicago — James Heckman Invited Speaker (2025), ASSA Annual Meeting (2026), CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education (2026), American Society of Health Economists Annual Meeting (2026)

• “A Dynamic Model of the Economic Returns to Adolescent Social Skills”

  (with Jere Behrman and Andrew Postlewaite) · Annenberg Institute EdWorkingPaper: 26-1459 · PIER Working Paper 26-004

  Under Review

  Conferences/Seminars: ASSA 2027 Annual Meeting (scheduled)

• “Local Signals in a Global Tournament: Information Frictions, Optimism, and College Completion”

  (with Jere Behrman and Andrew Postlewaite) · Annenberg Institute EdWorking Paper: 26-1561 · PIER Working Paper 26-012

Work in Progress

• “Information, Training, and Diagnostic Gaps in Pediatric ADHD”

  (with Francesco Agostinelli)

  With support from the Klein Family Social Justice Grant (2024)

• “Psychological Distress and the Theory of Rational Addiction”

  (with Francesco Agostinelli)

• “Information and Teacher Sorting”

  (with Chao Fu and Genia Rachkovski)

• “Luck of the Draw: The Economic Value of High-Stakes Testing”

  (with Angela Crema and Viviana Rodriguez)