Racial Inequality and Neighborhood Effects

Childhood Exposure to Violence and Nurturing Relationships: with Kristen Tauber
The Long-Run Effects on Black Men

What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs? with Hal Martin and Kristen Tauber

The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap with Daniel Carroll and Eric Young

  Revise and Resubmit at International Economic Review

Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay

Journal of Economic Literature   Vol. 61, no. 3 (2023), pp. 1172-87.

What Explains Neighborhood Sorting by Income and Race? with Daniel Carroll and Eric Young

Journal of Urban Economics   2022   Appendix

Landlords and Access to Opportunity with Hal Martin and David Phillips

Journal of Urban Economics   Volume 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

All Causes in the Model and in Reality

Opioids and the Labor Market with Kyle Fee and Mark Schweitzer

Labour Economics   Volume 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

Differences of Opinion

Covariates and Causal Effects: The Problem of Context