Research

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

Work in Progress

  • "Explicit Versus Implicit Affirmative Action: The Effect on Student Quality


If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research. 

--Albert Einstein