My Papers and Projects:
New Projects:
The effect of the Texas 10% rule on applications, admissions, enrollment and student outcomes – Regression Discontinuity Evidence (with Jason Fletcher)
Empirical evidence on the role of social networks in job-search
Estimating Private Information in the Insurance Markets when Agents have Heterogeneous Risk Preferences (with Li Gan and Feng Huang)
Social Networks
Empirical evidence on the role of social networks in job-search
The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses (with Steven Puller) Journal of Public Economics, 2008 (working paper version)
Do More Diverse Environments Increase the Diversity of Subsequent Interaction? Evidence from Random Dorm Assignment (with Sara Baker and Steven Puller) Revision Requested by Economics Letters
Online social networks in Economics Decison Support Systems, 2009
Price and Wage Dispersion Due to Heterogeneous Arrival of Trade Opportunities (with Ted Turocy)
The Quantifying the Effects of Job Matching
through Social Networks
Intergenerational connections
Education, Self-Selection and Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities Journal of Human Capital, 2008
The Evolution of Wages over the Lifecycle: Insights from Intergenerational Connections Applied Economics, 2009
Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities, Self-Selection and the Return to Education (work in progress)
Are intergenerational connections wealth related? Evidence from lifecycle data.
Education and Uncertainty
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