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).

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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).

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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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