Working Papers
How Good It Can Get: Housing Mobility Programs
with Stefanie DeLuca
and the Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership
The Massive Recent Decline in Concentrated Poverty:
with David Van Riper
A Change of Neighborhoods or of Racial Labels?
Identifying Long-Run Neighborhood Effects
with Daniel Hartley and Chris Muris
via Race-Based Neighborhood Sorting
The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap with Daniel Carroll and Eric Young
Revise and Resubmit at International Economic Review
Racial Inequality and Neighborhood Effects
Strong Spatial Spillovers Determine
Neighborhood Shape
with
Jeffrey Lin
and Neighborhood Change
in A Research Agenda for Neighborhoods (2025). Edited by Rachel Meltzer and Vincent Reina.
Childhood Exposure to Violence and Nurturing Relationships:
with Kristen Tauber
The Long-Run Effects on Black Men
Journal of Applied Econometrics (2025). Conditionally Accepted
What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs? with Hal Martin and Kristen Tauber
Journal of Housing Economics Vol. 65 (2024), 102009.
What Explains Neighborhood Sorting by Income and Race? with Daniel Carroll and Eric Young
Journal of Urban Economics Vol. 141 (2024), 103508. Appendix
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay
Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 61, no. 3 (2023), pp. 1172-87.
Landlords and Access to Opportunity with Hal Martin and David Phillips
Journal of Urban Economics Vol. 129 (2022), 103420.
Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity:
with Francisca G.-C. Richter
LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 102, No. 4 (2020). Appendix
Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity with Daniel Carroll
Quantitative Economics Vol. 9, Issue 4 (2018), pp. 247-303.
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
Empirical Economics Vol. 53, Issue 3 (2017), pp. 1125-1169. Appendix
Blowing It Up and Knocking It Down: The Local and Citywide Effects of
Demolishing High-Concentration Public Housing on Crime
with
Daniel Hartley
Journal of Urban Economics Vol. 88 (2015), pp. 67-81.
Other Topics
The Nonequivalence of College Equivalents with Daniel Carroll and C. Lockwood Reynolds
Journal of Income Distribution (2025), Forthcoming
All Causes in the Model and in Reality
Opioids and the Labor Market with Kyle Fee and Mark Schweitzer
Labour Economics Vol. 85 (2023), 102446.
What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff When Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti?
World Bank Economic Review Vol. 32, Issue 2 (2018), pp. 482-504.
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.
Resting Papers