“High Bars or Behind Bars? The Effect of Graduation Requirements on Arrest Rates,”(forthcoming) Education Finance and Policy (Publication Link) featured in EducationNext, Summer 2020
“Does Closing Schools Close Doors? The Effect of High School Closures on Achievement and Attainment,”Economics of Education Review, 76, June 2020 (Publication Link)
“War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and the World War II GI Bill,” (with TJ McCarthy, Jeremy Moulton, Marianne Page, and Ankur Patel), Demography, 52(5), October 2015 (Publication Link)
“K-12 and Postsecondary Alignment: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Freshmen Course-taking Performance at California’s Community Colleges,” (with Michal Kurlaender), Education Policy Analysis Archives, 21(16), February 2013 (Publication Link) featured in InsideHigherEd.com, February 2013
“Experiments and Quasi-Experiments,” (with Douglas N. Harris), in Brewer, Dominic J., & Lawrence O. Picus, eds. Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Fincance. SAGE Publications, 2014
Working Papers
“The Effects of the New Orleans Post-Katrina School Reforms on Student Academic Outcomes,” (with Douglas N. Harris) Under Review
“What Schools do Parents Want (and Why)? Academics, Extracurricular Activities, and Indirect Costs in New Orleans Post-Katrina School Reforms,” (with Douglas N. Harris)
“Socially Promoted, Academically Remediated: RD Estimates of Grade Retention Policies,” (with Jon Valant)
The Effect of Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility on Academic Achievement and Achievement Gaps
Out of Time or Out of Effort: What is Behind the Effect of Exit Exams on High School Completion” (with Paula Arce-Trigatti)
Peer Effects of Retention Policies: Evidence from Louisiana
