The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges (forthcoming, JHR)
Academic version - NBER Working Paper 27177 (with Jonathan Smith and Michael Hurwitz)
Media highlights - Inside Higher Ed, Education Dive
Kumon In: The Recent, Rapid Rise of Private Tutoring Centers (forthcoming, EFP)
Academic version - Working Paper (with Edward Kim and Martin West)
Media - AEI podcast
The Stickiness of Pandemic-Driven Disenrollment from Public Schools (2024, Econ of Ed Review)
Academic version - Econ of Ed Review (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Tareena Musaddiq, and Kevin Stange)
Policy brief - WEPC brief
The COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupted Both School Bullying and Cyberbullying (2022, AER: Insights)
Academic version - AER: Insights (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Jennifer Greif Green, and Melissa K. Holt)
Summary version - WEPC Policy Brief | AEA Podcast | Slide deck
Media - Washington Post, The 74, Bostonia, Sky News
The Pandemic’s Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools (2022, JPubE)
Academic version - Journal of Public Economics (with Tareena Musaddiq, Kevin Stange, and Andrew Bacher-Hicks)
Summary version - EPI / WEPC Policy Brief, The Conversation, NBER Digest
Racial Diversity and Measuring Merit: Evidence from Boston’s Exam School Admissions (2022, EFP)
Academic version - Education Finance and Policy (with Melanie Rucinski)
Summary version - EFP Takeaway, Policy brief
Media highlights - Boston Globe, Boston Globe, Boston Globe, WBUR (Boston), WGBH (Boston), WGBH (Boston), BNN TV, Shah Foundation Podcast, BC Law Magazine
Ability Signals and Rigorous Coursework: Evidence from AP Calculus Participation (2022, Econ of Ed Review)
Academic version - Economics of Education Review (with Christopher Avery)
Summary version - WEPC Policy Brief
O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries (2021, QJE)
Academic version - Quarterly Journal of Economics (with Adam Altmejd, Andres Barrios-Fernandez, Marin Drlje, Michael Hurwitz, Dejan Kovac, Christine Mulhern, Christopher Neilson and Jonathan Smith)
Summary version - Slide deck
Media highlights - Faculti (audio), Inside Higher Ed
Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time (2021, JPubE)
Academic version - Journal of Public Economics, 193 (2021) 104345 (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks and Christine Mulhern)
Summary version - EducationNext
Video version - NBER Covid Series
Audio version - Research Minutes podcast
Data/code - Final data; Stata code for tables/figures
Media highlights - Vox (The Weeds, 44:30), Business Insider, The Elective
Learning is Inhibited by Heat Exposure, Both Internationally and Within the U.S. (2021, Nature Human Behavior)
Academic version - Nature Human Behavior, 5: 19-27 (with Jisung Park and A. Patrick Behrer)
Media highlights - New York Times, New York Times, Scientific American, Reuters
Nudging at Scale: Experimental Evidence from FAFSA Completion Campaigns (2021, JEBO)
Academic version - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 183: 105-128 (with Kelli Bird, Ben Castleman, Jeff Denning, Cait Lamberton, and Kelly Ochs Rosinger)
Summary version - Slide deck
Heat and Learning (2020, AEJ:Policy)
Academic version - AEJ: Economic Policy, 12(2): 306–339 (with Jisung Park, Michael Hurwitz, and Jonathan Smith)
Summary version - NBER Digest, The Hill
Video version - Econimate
Media highlights - New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, BBC World Service, WGBH (Boston), Marginal Revolution, Slate, Hechinger Report
Take Two! SAT Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps (2020, AEJ:Policy)
Academic version - AEJ: Economic Policy, 12(2): 115–158 (with Oded Gurantz and Jonathan Smith)
Summary version - VoxEU
Media highlights - New York Times, Vox (The Weeds, 59:00), Forbes, Education Week, NACAC, Mother Jones
The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework (2019, JOLE)
Academic version - Journal of Labor Economics, 37(4): 1141-1182
Summary version - Slide deck
Media highlights - The Atlantic, Marketwatch
Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education? (2019, JOLE)
Academic version - Journal of Labor Economics, 37 (1): 1-34 (with Julia Melkers and Amanda Pallais)
Summary version - NBER Digest, Education Next
Media highlights - New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, Marginal Revolution, PBS Newshour, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Intensive College Counseling and the Enrollment and Persistence of Low Income Students (2018, EFP)
Academic version - Education Finance and Policy 13(1): 19-41 (with Benjamin Castleman)
Summary version - Slide deck
Media highlights - Inside Higher Ed, Wall Street Journal
Access to Four-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion (2017, JOLE)
Academic version - Journal of Labor Economics, 35 (3): 829-867 (with Michael Hurwitz and Jonathan Smith)
Summary version - Slide deck
Media highlights - New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, Inside Higher Ed, Education Week
Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts (2017, EEPA)
Academic version - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 39 (2): 311-332 (with Beth Schueler and David Deming)
Summary version - Policy brief, slide deck
Media highlights - Education Week, WBUR, The Seventy Four, Harvard Gazette, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Objective Course Placement and College Readiness: Evidence from Targeted Middle School Math Acceleration (2017, EER)
Academic version - Economics of Education Review 58: 141-161 (with Shaun Dougherty, Darryl Hill, Erica Litke, and Lindsay Page)
Summary version - Slide deck
Media highlights - Chalkbeat
Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra (2015, JHR)
Academic version - Journal of Human Resources 50 (1): 108-158 (with Kalena Cortes and Takako Nomi)
Summary version - Education Next
Media highlights - Education Week
A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors (2015, Economic Inquiry)
Academic version - Economic Inquiry 53(2): 1392-1395 (w/ Allen/Lucas/Sarena Goodman)
Summary version - No summary needed. The paper is 4 pages long. Just read it.
Media highlights - AEA Humor Session (video), Vox, Marginal Revolution, NPR's Marketplace
Middle School Math Acceleration and Equitable Access to 8th Grade Algebra (2015, EEPA)
Academic version - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 37(1): 80S-101S (with Shaun Dougherty, Darryl Hill, Erica Litke, and Lindsay Page)
Summary version - Brookings (Brown Center Chalkboard)
The Relationship Between Siblings’ College Choices: Evidence from One Million SAT‐Taking Families (2015, EER)
Academic version - Economics of Education Review 48: 75-85 (with Michael Hurwitz, Jonathan Smith and Julia Fox)
Media highlights - Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Chronicle of Higher Education
Merit Aid, College Quality and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy (2014, AEJ:Applied)
Academic version - AEJ: Applied Economics 6 (4): 251-285 (with Sarah Cohodes)
Summary version - Two-page brief, slide deck
Media highlights - New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Slate, White House Report, Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure and Human Capital Accumulation (2014, JEP)
Academic version - Journal of Economic Perspectives 28 (4): 193-212
Summary version - Slide deck
Media highlights - Washington Post, Vox, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Le Monde, Guardian, BBC NewsHour, NPR's Marketplace
Ability-Tracking, Instructional Time, & Better Pedagogy: Double-Dose Algebra and Student Achievement (2014, AER:P&P)
Academic version - AER: Papers & Proceedings 104 (5): 400-405 (with Kalena Cortes)
Bankruptcy Law and The Cost of Credit: The Impact of Cramdown on Mortgage Interest Rates (2014, JLEO)
Academic version - Journal of Law and Economics 57 (1): 139-158 (with Adam Levitin)
Summary version - Slide deck
Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts (2010, EFP)
Academic version - Education Finance and Policy, 5 (1): 36-53
Who Merits Financial Aid?: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship (2008, JPubE)
Academic version - Journal of Public Economics 92 (10): 2121-2131
Summary version - Slide deck