“The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency”
(with A. Brooks Bowden and Viviana Rodriguez)
Forthcoming at AEJ: 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)

“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)
“Designing Optimal School Choice Admissions Policies: Insights from a Lottery-Based Reform”
(with Sherrie Cheng)
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)

“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 Workshop (2025), ASSA Annual Meeting (2026), CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education (2026); American Society of Health Economists Annual Meeting 2026 (scheduled)
“A Dynamic Model of the Economic Returns to Adolescent Social Skills”
(with Jere Behrman and Andrew Postlewaite) · PIER Working Paper 26-004
Under Review

“Multi-Stage Discrimination and the Costs of Misdiagnosis in ADHD”
(with Francesco Agostinelli)
With support from the Klein Family Social Justice Grant (2024)
“From Childhood to Adulthood: The Long-Run Effects of Charter School Admissions”
(with Margaux Luflade and Viviana Rodriguez)
With support from MIT Blueprint Labs Charter School Research Collaborative (2026)