RESEARCH

Selected Publications

  • "Economic Booms and Recidivism" with Emily Owens, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, forthcoming
  • "Curriculum Reforms and Infant Health" with Bahadir Dursun and My Nguyen, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, 394-408
  • "The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy" with Michael Lovenheim and Naci Mocan, Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40, 361-395
  • "Juvenile  Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult  Crime: Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness" with Naci Mocan, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103, 34-47
  • "Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles" with Naci Mocan, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10, 171-205
  • "The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment" with Heather Antecol and Serkan Ozbeklik, Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33, 63-89

Under Revision

  • "School Accountability Pressures, Long-Run Criminal Activity, and Self-Sufficiency" with David Figlio, Naci Mocan and Orgul Ozturk, Journal of Human Resources

Research in Progress

  • "The Out-of-Court and Long-Run Consequences of In-Group Judicial Biases" with Randi Hjalmarsson and Orgul Ozturk
  • "The Long-Run Effects of a Comprehensive Teacher Performance Pay Program on Student Outcomes " with Sarah Cohodes and Orgul Ozturk
  • "Curriculum Reforms, Adult Health, and Mortality" with Bahadir Dursun, Kathryn Johnson and Erdal Tekin
  • "Judge Peer Effects in the Courthouse" with Naci Mocan
  • "Diversity and Team Production: Evidence from Teaching Using a Large Scale Randomized Experiment" with My Nguyen and Serkan Ozbeklik