Working Papers
College Course Shutouts, Under Review (with Rich Patterson and Anthony Yim*). Links: EdWorkingPaper, IZA working paper.
Statistical Discrimination and Optimal Mismatch in College Major Selection, Under Review (with Mary Kate Batistich*, Tim Bond, and Sebastian Linde*). Awarded the MinE Best Paper Award from the European Economic Association. Links: IZA working paper.
Student Selection into an Income Share Agreement, Working Paper. Links: Ed Working Paper.
*denotes former student
Published Papers
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? (2022) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14(3) 1-29 lead article (with Jeff Denning, Eric Eide, Rich Patterson, and Merrill Warnick). Links: online article, online appendix, replication package. Related Articles: Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Next, NBER Working Paper. Press: Washington Post, Forbes, Inside Higher Ed.
Impact of Motivation and Workload on Service Time Components: An Empirical Analysis of Call Center Operations (2022) Management Science, 68:9 6697-6715 (with Ahmad Ashkanani and Ben Dunford). Links: online article, replication package.
Decreasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States (2022) Economics of Education Review 90, 102287 (with Jeff Denning, Eric Eide, and Daniel Sabey). Links: online article, pdf, Ed Working Paper, IZA Working Paper.
Integrated Conflict Management Systems Pay Off with Lower Levels of Formal Grievances and Lower Turnover Rates (2020) ILR Review 73:2, 528-551 (with Ben Dunford, Wayne Boss, Alan Boss, and David Boss). Links: online article. Press: Purdue News.
Measuring Wealth: Implications for Sustainable Development (2020) in Achieving Inclusive Growth in the Asia Pacific, Australian National University Press, 41-53. Links: online article. Related articles: Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, East Asia Forum Quarterly.
Veterinary Price Index (2019) NationwideDVM (with John B. Barron, Kerry O’Hara, Carol McConnell, Angela Leung, and Gina Spadafori). Links: 2019 Report, 2017 Report, 2015 Report.
CareerVis: Hierarchical Visualization of Career Pathway Data (2018) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 38:6, 96-105 (with Mingran Li, Wenjie Wu, Junhan Zhao, Keyuan Zhou, David Perkis, Timothy N. Bond, David Hummels, and Yingjie Victor Chen). Links: online article, career mapping visualization website.
Fertility Response to the Tax Treatment of Children (2017) National Tax Association Proceedings 110 (with Paul Thomas*). Links: online article.
Who Benefits from a Minimum Wage Increase? (2016) ILR Review, 69:5, 1171-1190 (with John Lopresti*). Links: online article, Upjohn Institute Working Paper
Influence of Job Market Conditions on Engineering Cooperative Education Participation (2016) Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 142:3 (with Brock Barry, Matt Ohland, and Russel Long). Links: online article
The Salience of Complex Tax Changes: Evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Credit Expansion (2015) National Tax Journal 68:3, 477-510 lead article (with Ben Miller*). Links: online article.
Health Capital (2014) in Inclusive Wealth Report 2014, Cambridge University Press,123-134 (with Kenneth J. Arrow and Partha Dasgupta). Links: online article
Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing Market (2013) Review of Economics and Statistics 95:2, 464-475 (with Mike Lovenheim). Links: online article. Press: Richmond Fed
Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth (2012) Environment and Development Economics 17:3, 317-353 (with Kenneth J. Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Larry Goulder, and Kristen Oleson). Links:. Related Articles: NBER Working Paper, Comments: Robert Solow (2012), Kirk Hamilton (2012), Robert D. Cairns (2013)
A Bayesian Analysis of Payday Loans and their Regulation (2012) Journal of Econometrics 171:2, 205-216 (with Minglian Li and Justin L. Tobias). Links: online article
Measuring Inclusive Wealth at the State Level in the United States (2012) in Inclusive Wealth Report 2012, Cambridge University Press, 69-86. Links: full report
Women and the Choice to Study Economics (2012) Journal of Economic Education 42:4, 349-362 (with Tisha L. N. Emerson and KimMarie McGoldrick). Links: online article
Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment (2011) American Economic Review 101:4, 161-28 (with Richard Crump and Gopi Shah Goda). Links: online article. Related Articles: NBER Working Paper
Student Performance in Undergraduate Economics Courses (2011) Journal of Economic Education 42:3, 275-282 (with Matthew W. Ohland). Links: online article
The Efficiency Cost of Child Tax Benefits (2010) National Tax Association Proceedings 101, 201-207. Links: SIEPR working paper