Recent Publications and Work in Progress:
“Not So Simple? Aid Simplification and the Impact of Pell Grants on College Enrollment.” In Progress.
“The Effects of Employment Incentives and Cash Transfers on Parent and Child Outcomes.” with Hilary Hoynes, Pauline Leung, Zhuan Pei, and Cynthia Miller. In Progress.
“Visual Inference and Graphical Representation iRegression Discontinuity Designs.” with Christina Korting, Carl Lieberman, Zhuan Pei, and Yi Shen. Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
“Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood.” with Zach Parolin, Jane Waldfogel, and Chris Wimer. Demography, 2022.
“Estimating monthly poverty rates in the United States.” with Zach Parolin, Megan Curran, Jane Waldfogel, and Chris Wimer. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2022.
Education:
“Pell Grants and Student Success: Evidence from the Universe of Federal Aid Recipients.” with Amanda Eng. Journal of Labor Economics. forthcoming 2021.
“Teachers’ Unions and School Performance: Evidence from California Charter Schools.” with Richard Patterson. Economics of Education Review. 61, 2017: 35-50.
“Gainful Employment regulations will protect students and taxpayers. Don’t change them.” with Stephanie Riegg Cellini, David Deming and Adam Looney. Brown Center Chalkboard. Brookings. 2017.
“Federal Efforts Could Improve the Data Available to Drive Improvement in Higher Education.” InMemos to Congress and the Administration on Higher Education. The Urban Institute. 2017.
“The Future of Regulation in the For-profit College Sector.” in Chad P. Bown, editor. Economics and Policy in the Age of Trump. London: CEPR Press. 2017.
“Defining and measuring institutional quality in higher education.” in Quality in the Undergraduate Experience: What Is It? How Is It Measured? Who Decides? Summary of a Workshop. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine. 2016.
“Federal College Work Study.” with Maricar Mabutas. In Dominic Brewer and Lawrence Picus, editors.Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance. Sage Publications. 2014.
“Innovation in Education.” with Richard Patterson∗. In Dominic Brewer and Lawrence Picus, editors. Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance. Sage Publications. 2014.
“Summer School and Student Achievement” in John Hattie and Eric Anderman, editors. International Guide to Student Achievement. Routledge. 2013.
“An Integrated Assessment of the Effects of Title I on School Behavior, Resources, and Student Achievement,” with Adrienne Hosek and Elias Walsh. Economics of Education Review, 31(3), 2012: 1-14.
“Mandatory Summer School and Student Achievement: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis.” Journal of Econometrics, 142(2), 2008: 829-850.
Labor and Social Policy
“Economic Conditions and the Living Arrangements of Young Adults: 1960 to 2011.” Journal of Population Economics. 29(1), 2016: 167-195.
“Monopsony in the Low-Wage Labor Market? Evidence from Minimum Nurse Staffing Regulations.”Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(1), 2014: 92-102.
“Government regulation and the quality of health care: Evidence from minimum staffing legislation for nursing homes.” Journal of Human Resources, 49(1), 2014: 32-72.
“The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior and Income of Low Income Families,” with Rebecca Blank. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33(1), 2014: 7-35.
“Monopsony in Health Labor Markets Theory, prima facie Plausibility, and Evidence.” In Tony Culyer, editor. Encyclopedia of Health Economics. Elsevier. 2014.
“Is Stable Employment Becoming more Elusive for Young Men?” (with Mary Corcoran). In Ingrid Schoon and Rainer Silbereisen, editors. The Transition from School to Work. Cambridge University Press. 2009.
“Is it Getting Harder to Get Ahead? Cohort Differences in Economic Attainments in Early Adulthood” (with Mary Corcoran). in Richard Settersten, Frank Furstenberg and Rube ́n Rumbaut, editors. On the Frontier of Adulthood. University of Chicago Press. 2005.
“Work, Welfare, and Economic Well-Being After Welfare Reform: Do State Policies Make a Difference?” (with Sheldon Danziger). in Neil Gilbert and Antoine Parent, editors. Welfare Reform: A Comparative Assessment of French and US Experiences. Volume 10. International Social Security Series. 2004.
Methods and Other Work
“A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example.” with John DiNardo, Justin McCrary, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. Journal of Labor Economics. forthcoming, 2021.
Policy Briefs
“Towards a Framework for Accountability for Federal Financial Assistance Programs in Postsecondary Education.” with Lesley J. Turner. The Brookings Institution. 2020.
“Federal Efforts Could Improve the Data Available to Drive Improvement in Higher Education.” In Memos to Congress and the Administration on Higher Education. The Urban Institute. 2017.
“Gainful Employment regulations will protect students and taxpayers. Don't change them.” with Stephanie Riegg Cellini, David Deming and Adam Looney. Brown Center Chalkboard. Brookings Institution. 2017.