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Working Papers

2025

1. Gun Policy and the Steel Paradox: Evidence from Oregunians
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2024

2. In-Person Schooling and Juvenile Violence
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

3. Importing the Opioid Crisis? International Trade and Fentanyl Overdoses
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
4. No Ground Truth? No Problem: Improving Administrative Data Linking Using Active Learning and a Little Bit of Guile
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
5. The Re-Emerging Suicide Crisis in the U.S.: Patterns, Causes and Solutions
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2022

6. In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide: Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
7. Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women's Labor Supply
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2021

8. Labor Reallocation and Remote Work During COVID-19: Real-time Evidence from GitHub
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (15)
9. Vertical Integration and Production Inefficiency in the Presence of a Gross Receipts Tax
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2020

10. Do State Tobacco 21 Laws Work?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
11. Information and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap: Early Evidence from California's Salary History Ban
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
12. Police Force Size and Civilian Race
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2019

13. Administrative Data Linking and Statistical Power Problems in Randomized Experiments
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
14. Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)
15. The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)

2018

16. Early Evidence on Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Traffic Fatalities
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)

2017

17. Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regression Kinks
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
18. Federalism, Partial Prohibition, and Cross-Border Sales: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
19. Getting into the Weeds of Tax Invariance
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2016

20. Does “Ban the Box†Help or Hurt Low-Skilled Workers? Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes when Criminal Histories are Hidden
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (29)
21. Does “Ban the Box” Help or Hurt Low-Skilled Workers? Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories are Hidden
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (31)
22. Legal Access to Alcohol and Criminality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Legal access to alcohol and criminality, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (26) (2018)

2015

23. Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (7)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (6)

2014

24. Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2012) View citations (28)
    See also Journal Article Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use, American Law and Economics Review, American Law and Economics Association (2015) View citations (50) (2015)
25. Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2015) View citations (88) (2015)

2013

26. Caution! Men Not at Work: Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child Maltreatment
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
27. Economic Conditions and Child Abuse
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (12)

2011

28. Cigarette Taxes and the Social Market
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Journal Articles

2018

1. Legal access to alcohol and criminality
   Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, (C), 277-289 View citations (26)
   See also Working Paper Legal Access to Alcohol and Criminality, NBER Working Papers (2016) (2016)

2017

2. Have Cigarette Taxes Lost Their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking
   American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3, (1), 60-75 View citations (42)
3. Moving to Job Opportunities? The Effect of "Ban the Box" on the Composition of Cities
   American Economic Review, 2017, 107, (5), 556-59 View citations (3)

2016

4. California’s 2004 Workers’ Compensation Reform
   ILR Review, 2016, 69, (1), 173-198 View citations (1)
5. When Good Measurement Goes Wrong
   ILR Review, 2016, 69, (2), 312-319 View citations (9)

2015

6. Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use
   American Law and Economics Review, 2015, 17, (2), 495-528 View citations (50)
   See also Working Paper Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use, NBER Working Papers (2014) (2014)
7. Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving
   American Economic Review, 2015, 105, (4), 1581-1617 View citations (88)
   See also Working Paper Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (6) (2014)

2014

8. Life and Death in the Fast Lane: Police Enforcement and Traffic Fatalities
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6, (2), 231-57 View citations (92)

2013

9. Cigarette Taxes and How Youths Obtain Cigarettes
   National Tax Journal, 2013, 66, (2), 371-394 View citations (13)
10. Deterability by age
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2013, 36, (C), 70-81 View citations (3)
11. Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, 56, (2), 333 - 369 View citations (145)
12. The minimum dropout age and student victimization
    Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, (C), 66-74 View citations (22)

2012

13. Are the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases Always Small? New Evidence from a Case Study of New York State
    ILR Review, 2012, 65, (2), 350-376 View citations (92)

2011

14. Back to school blues: Seasonality of youth suicide and the academic calendar
    Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30, (5), 850-861 View citations (21)