Working Papers

The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status (with Paul Cornell `24 and Ethan Lewis).  Manuscript, December 2023.

Work in Progress

How Good are Proxies for Legal Status?  Evidence from the Legalization of 2 Million Mexicans (with Ethan Lewis and Michael Zhang `25).  Draft coming soon!

The Impacts of School Facilities Investments in the Mid-Century South (with Ethan Lewis).

Resting Papers

COVID-19, Early Care and Education, and Child Development. Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) White Paper, October 2021.

Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions (with Doug Staiger).  NBER Working Paper 18038, May 2012.

Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off?  Long-Term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public SchoolsNBER Working Paper 14951, May 2009. [Summaries in Education Next, The NBER Digest, CEPR VoxEU.org]

School Progression and the Grade Distribution of Students: Evidence from the Current Population SurveyIZA Discussion Paper 1747, September 2005.