RESEARCH

Selected Publications

  • "The Long Run Effects of a Teacher-Focused School Reform on Student Outcomes," with Sarah Cohodes and Orgul Ozturk , Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
  • "School Accountability Pressures, Long-Run Criminal Activity, and Self-Sufficiency," with David Figlio, Naci Mocan and Orgul Ozturk, Journal of Human Resources, 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
  • "Who Benefits from Job Corps? A Distributional Analysis of an Active Labor Market Program," with Serkan Ozbeklik, Journal of Applied Econometrics , 2014, 29, 586-611

Research in Progress

  • "The Long-Run and Intergenerational Effects of School Quality" with Krzysztof Karbownik and Orgul Ozturk
  • "The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Gender Discrimination in the Courthouse" with Randi Hjalmarsson and Orgul Ozturk
  • "Curriculum Reforms, Adult Health, and Mortality" with Bahadir Dursun, Kathryn Johnson and Erdal Tekin
  • "Diversity and Team Production: Evidence from Teaching Using a Large Scale Randomized Experiment" with My Nguyen and Serkan Ozbeklik