Evidence on the Production of Cognitive Achievement from Moving to Opportunity


Differences of Opinion (slides)


Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity:

LATEs of Neighborhood Quality (joint with Francisca G.-C. Richter)

Revise and resubmit at The Review of Economics and Statistics


Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity (joint with Daniel Carroll)

Quantitative Economics, Forthcoming


Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity

Empirical Economics   Vol. 52, Issue 3 (2017), pp. 925-954.


Human Capital in the Inner City (Appendix)

Empirical Economics   Vol. 53, Issue 3 (2017), pp. 1125-1169.


What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff When Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti?

The World Bank Economic Review   (2016) doi: 10.1093/wber/lhw035


Blowing It Up and Knocking It Down: The Local and Citywide Effects of

Demolishing High-Concentration Public Housing on Crime (joint with Daniel Hartley)

Journal of Urban Economics   Vol. 88 (2015), pp. 67-81.


When Should Children Start School?

Journal of Human Capital   Vol. 8, No. 4 (2014), pp. 481-536.


Redshirting, Compulsory Schooling Laws, and Educational Attainment

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics   Vol. 37, No. 2 (2012), pp. 316-338.


A Distinction between Causal Effects in Structural and Rubin Causal Models


Covariates and Causal Effects: The Problem of Context