Research
Discrimination in College Admissions
Understanding Discrimination in College Admissions: A Field Experiment (with Hugo Vaca Pereira, Liam Sigaud, Patrick Warren, and S. Michael Gaddis).
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For-Profit vs Nonprofit and Government Ownership
Understanding Nonprofit and Government Ownership: Evidence from Nursing Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
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Drugs and Crime
Drug Decriminalization, Public Health, and Crime: Evidence from Oregon (with Liam Sigaud, Elijah Neilson, and Sebastian Anastasi).
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Gasoline Regulation
Self-Service Bans and Gasoline Prices: The Effect of Allowing Consumers to Pump Their Own Gas (2024), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
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The Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with Disabilities Act and Educational Attainment (with Nicholas Reinarts), Public Choice, 2023
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Minimum Wage Laws
Minimum Wage Laws and Job Search(with David Neumark, Liya Palagashvili, Chris Kaiser, and Michael D. Farren).
Working paper coming soon.
Income Inequality and Public Choice
Estimating the Effect of Rent Seeking on Income Distribution: An Analysis of US States and Counties (with Stephen Miller), Public Choice, 2022.
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Medicaid Expansion
The Hidden Subsidy of the Affordable Care Act (with Liam Sigaud and Markus Bjoerkheim).
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Proposing an Index of Rent Seeking
Improvements in the Measurement of Rent Seeking: A Synthetic Matching Approach (With Elijah Neilson), Public Choice, 2023
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Causal Effects of Vaccine Mandates
The Effects of Vaccine Mandates on Covid-19 Cases, Deaths, and Vaccine Uptake. (With Dorothy Chebet and Elijah Neilson)
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Airbnb Bans
The Political Actors Behind Airbnb Bans: Evidence from New York City (with Sebastian Anastasi, Alexander Marsella, Gary A. Wagner, and Frank Stephenson).
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Political Economy of Healthcare Regulation
Why Are Nursing Homes so Heavily Regulated? The Effects and Political Economy of Certificate-of-Need Laws. (With Elijah Neilson)
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A Field Experiment on Immigration Policies and Discrimination
Xenophobia or Immigration Policies? A Field Experiment on Employment Discrimination of High-Skilled Workers (with S. Michael Gaddis, Liya Palagashvili, Michael D. Farren, and Chris Kaiser).
Working paper coming soon.
Healthcare Access
Rural Healthcare Access and Supply Constraints: A Causal Analysis (with Liam Sigaud, Elijah Neilson, and Markus Bjoerkheim), Southern Economic Journal, 2024.
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Nursing Home Isolation Measures
Intended and Unintended Effects of Nursing Home Isolation Measures.
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Discrimination in Online Markets
Do Black Sellers Get Fewer Offers and Lower Prices Than White Sellers? Evidence From a Field Experiment. (With Elijah Neilson).
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Right-to-Work Laws and Discrimination
Right-to-Work Laws and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Liam Sigaud).
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