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

The Old College Try: Estimating the Role of Uncertainty,  Costs and Rewards in the Experiment called College

 

 

 

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