Published and Accepted Papers
“Information Frictions and Teacher Turnover”
(with Kristen Shure)
Conditionally Accepted 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)
“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
“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
“Who Gains from Selective Schooling? Evidence from Philadelphia’s Admissions Lottery”
(with Seth D. Zimmerman)
“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)
“Psychological Distress and the Theory of Rational Addiction”
(with Francesco Agostinelli)
“Information, Training, and Diagnostic Gaps in Pediatric ADHD”
(with Francesco Agostinelli)
With support from the Klein Family Social Justice Grant (2024)