Works in progress

Laffer’s Day in Court: The Revenue Effects of Criminal Justice Fees and Fines with Samuel Norris
Revision requested, Journal of Public Economics; NBER version

How Replaceable Is a Low-Wage Job? with Yotam Shem-Tov
Working paper; NBER version; non-technical summary

The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing with Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Carl McPherson, Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, Yotam Shem-Tov, and Jeffrey Weaver
Revision requested, Econometrica; non-technical summary; related podcast

The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact with Jonathan Schellenberg and Yotam Shem-Tov
Under review; NBER version

The Effects of Job Loss on Crime: Evidence from Administrative Data
Revision in progress

Published and accepted work

A Discrimination Report Card with Patrick Kline and Christopher Walters
Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review; DRrank package

On Recoding Ordered Treatments as Binary Indicators with Yotam Shem-Tov
Conditionally accepted, The Review of Economics and Statistics

Family Formation and Crime with Maxim Massenkoff
Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; NBER version
Coverage: Marginal Revolution, Mother Jones, The Economist

The Effect of Combat Deployments on Veterans’ Outcomes with Jesse Bruhn, Kyle Greenberg, Matthew Gudgeon and Yotam Shem-Tov
Accepted, Journal of Political Economy; NBER version

A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Sep 2023); replication archive

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers with Patrick Kline and Christopher Walters
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 137, No. 4 (Nov 2022); online appendix; slides; replication archive; non-technical summary
Coverage: NYT, Marketplace, Here and Now, Econimate

School Discipline and Racial Disparities in Early Adulthood with Miles Davison, Andrew Penner, Emily Penner, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Sonya R. Porter, Yotam Shem-Tov, and Paul Yoo
Educational Researcher, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Apr 2022)

How Does Incarceration Affect Reoffending? Estimating the Dose-Response Function with Yotam Shem-Tov
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 129, No. 12 (Dec 2021); online appendix; prior JM draft

Adaptive Correspondence Experiments with Hadar Avivi, Patrick Kline, and Christopher Walters
AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 111 (May 2021); slides; replication archive

Who Gets a Second Chance? Effectiveness and Equity in Supervision of Criminal Offenders
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 136, No. 2 (May 2021); online appendix; slides; replication archive
Coverage: Econimate

Does Banning the Box Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs? Evaluating the Effects of a Prominent Example
Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Jan 2021); online appendix

The Rise and Fall of Female Labor Force Participation During World War II in the United States
The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Sep 2018); online appendix; replication archive