Research

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Publications and Working Papers

School vs. District Level Views of School Spending Inequality and Progressivity: Evidence from Florida and Illinois

with Nora Gordon
Peabody Journal of Education, forthcoming.

Does Virtual Advising Increase College Enrollment? Evidence from a Random Assignment College Access Field Experiment

with Meredith Phillips
American Economic Journal, forthcoming.

Were Federal COVID Relief Funds for Schools Enough?

with Nora Gordon
in Tax Policy and the Economy, volume 36, Robert Moffit, ed., University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Federal Aid to School Districts During the COVID-19 Crisis

with Nora Gordon
National Tax Journal, September 2020.

Assessment of Exposure to High-Performing Schools and Risk of Adolescent Substance Use: A Natural Experiment

with Rebecca N. Dudovitz, Paul J. Chung, David Kennedy, Joan S. Tucker, Steve Shoptaw, Kulwant K. Dosanjh, and Mitchell D. Wong
Journal of the American Medical Association: Pediatrics. December 2018.

The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Childbearing

with Nora Gordon
Journal of Population Economics, April 2018

The Quest for a Targeted and Effective Title I ESEA: Challenges in Designing and Implementing Fiscal Compliance Rules

with Nora Gordon
Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, December 2015

The K-12 Education Battle

with Elizabeth Cascio
in Legacies of the War on Poverty, Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danzinger, eds., 2015

The Poverty Gap in School Spending Following the Introduction of Title I

with Elizabeth Cascio
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2013

Local Responses to Federal Grants: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

with Elizabeth Cascio and Nora Gordon
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2013

From Separate and Unequal to Integrated and Equal? School Desegregation and School Finance in Louisiana

Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2011

Desegregation and Educational Attainment for Blacks

Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2010

Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools

with Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, and Ethan Lewis
Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2010

From Brown to Busing

with Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, and Ethan Lewis
Journal of Urban Economics, September 2008

Court-Ordered Desegregation: Successes and Failures in Integration Since Brown vs. Board of Education

Journal of Human Resources. Summer 2005

Paying for Health Insurance: The Tradeoff between Competition and Adverse Selection

with David M. Cutler
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1998