Published and Accepted Work
"Community Engagement with Law Enforcement after High-profile Acts of Police Violence" (with Desmond Ang, Panka Bencsik, and Ellora Derenoncourt)
American Economic Review: Insights (2025) [Click here for ungated version]
"The Effect of Combat Deployments on Veterans' Outcomes" (with Kyle Greenberg, Matthew Gudgeon, Evan Rose, and Yotam Shem-Tov)
Journal of Political Economy (2024) [Click here for ungated version]
"Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools" (with Scott Imberman and Marcus Winters)
Journal of Public Economics (2022) [Click here for ungated version]
"Professional Development at Scale: The Causal Effect of Obtaining an SEI Endorsement Under Massachusetts' RETELL Initiative" (with Nathan Jones, Yasuko Kanno, and Marcus Winters)
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2022) [Click here for ungated version]
Working Papers
"Path Dependence in the Labor Market: the Long-run Effects of Early Career Occupational Experience" (with Jake Fabian, Luke Gallagher, Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen, and Aaron Phipps) [Updated November 2025]
"Gender Composition and Group Behavior: Evidence from US City Councils" (with Emilia Brito, Thea How-Choon and Anna Weber) [Updated December 2024]
"Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self Selection and Match Effects" (with Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn and Anh Tran) [Updated July 2024]
"The Consequences of Sorting for Measuring Educational Quality" [Updated May 2023, previously titled "The Consequences of Sorting for Understanding School Quality"]
Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Journal: Applied
"Competition in the Black Market: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gangs in Chicago" [Updated March 2021, Gang Map Data] (Previously titled: "The Geography of Gang Violence")
"Crime and Public Housing: A General Equilibrium Analysis" [Updated January 2018, online appendix]
Works in Progress
"Who Chooses and Who Benefits? The Design of Public School Choice Systems" (with Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn, and Antonia Vazquez)
Other Writing
"Lottery Evidence on the Impact of Preschool in the United States" (with Emily Emick) [Updated November 2023]