Publications
- “Experimentation and Job Choice,” with Limor Golan, Journal of Labor Economics, April 2012, 30(2), pp 333-366.
- “The Effects of Gender Interactions in the Lab and in the Field,” with Peter Arcidiacono and Randall Walsh, Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), pp 152-163.
- “A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department,” with Brian Knight, Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), pp 163-175.
- Review of Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market by Katherine Newman, Journal of Economic Literature, December 2007.
- “Games and Discrimination: Lessons from ‘The Weakest Link’,” with Peter Arcidiacono and Randall Walsh, Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2005, 40(4), pp. 918-47.
- “Does Increasing Women’s Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?—Comment,” with Arthur Goldberger, American Economic Review, December 2005, 95(5), pp. 1738-44.
- “Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium,” with Robert Town, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2004, 94(2), pp. 317-21.
- “Attrition in the New Beneficiary Survey and Followup, and Its Correlates,” with Robert Haveman, Karen Holden and Barbara Wolfe, Social Security Bulletin, 2000, 63(1), pp. 40-49.
Working Papers
- “Were Minority Students Discouraged From Applying to University of California Campuses After the Affirmative Action Ban?” with Ben Backes, January 2012, revision requested at Education Finance and Policy.
- “Affirmative Action Bans and the Chilling Effect,” with Richard Sander, November 2011, revision requested at The American Law and Economics Review.
- “Statistical Discrimination and Intergenerational Income Mobility,” 2006.
- “Persistent Racial Income Inequality,” 2004.
Work in Progress
- "Explicit Versus Implicit Affirmative Action: The Effect on Student Quality
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