RESEARCH

Publications

  • "Who Benefits from Job Corps? A Distributional Analysis of an Active Labor Market Program" with Serkan Ozbeklik (pdf) (Online Appendix), Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming
  • "The Effect of Ability on Young Men's Self-Employment Decision: Evidence from the NELS" with Ozan Sula (pdf) , Industrial Relations, 2012, 51, 916-935.
  • "Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving them More Homework?" with Daniel J. Henderson (IZA Discussion Paper: 5547), Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30, 950-961.
  • "Does Membership Pay Off for Covered Workers? A Distributional Analysis of the Free Rider Problem" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62, 367-380.
  • "The Impact of Homework on Student Achievement," with Daniel J. Henderson, Econometrics Journal, 2008, 11, 326-348.
  • "Time to learn? The Organizational Structure of Schools and Student Achievement," with Daniel Millimet, Empirical Economics, 2007, 32, 301-332.
  • "Measuring the Union-Nonunion Wage Gap Using Propensity Score Matching, " Industrial Relations, 2007, 46, 766-780.
  • "The Information Basis of Matching with Propensity Score," with Esfandiar Maasoumi. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 2005.

Revised and Resubmitted Papers

  • "The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment" with Heather Antecol and Serkan Ozbeklik (pdf) , Journal of Labor Economics (to be revised)
  • "Union Threat and Nonunion Wages: Evidence from the Case Study of Oklahoma" with Serkan Ozbeklik (pdf), Economic Inquiry
  • "The Effect of Noncognitive Ability on Earnings of Young Men: A Distributional Analysis with Measurement Error Correction" with Serkan Ozbeklik (pdf) , Labour Economics (to be revised)

Working Papers

  • "The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment" with Heather Antecol and Serkan Ozbeklik (pdf)
  • "Right-to-Work Laws and State-Level Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the Case Studies of Idaho and Oklahoma Using Synthetic Control Method " with Serkan Ozbeklik (pdf)
  • "Leadership Skills and Wages Revisited: Is There a Causal Relation? " with Serkan Ozbeklik (pdf)
  • "Time to Misbehave?" with Daniel Millimet (pdf)