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Working Papers

2021

1. Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)

2020

2. Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)
3. Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)

2018

4. Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2017

5. Complementary Bias: A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
6. High-Dosage Tutoring and Reading Achievement: Evidence from New York City
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
7. Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (30)

2016

8. An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (22)
9. Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
10. The 'Pupil' Factory: Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
11. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (17)

2015

12. Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (73)

2014

13. The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (44)

2013

14. Information and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Cellular Phone Experiment
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (28)
15. The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
16. Two-Armed Restless Bandits with Imperfect Information: Stochastic Control and Indexability
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
17. Updating Beliefs with Ambiguous Evidence: Implications for Polarization
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)

2012

18. Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (174)
19. Vertical versus Horizontal Incentives in Education: Evidence from Randomized Trials
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)

2011

20. A Roy Model of Social Interactions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
21. Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
22. Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (31)
23. Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (23)
24. Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: A Field Experiment in Houston
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
25. Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
26. Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (79)
27. The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach For America
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2010

28. Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (54)
29. Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (23)
30. The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
31. Valuing Identity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2009

32. An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (19)
33. Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (41)

2008

34. The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2007

35. Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
36. Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
37. The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2006

38. A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
39. Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
40. Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

2005

41. Affirmative Action and Its Mythology
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (77)
    See also Journal Article Affirmative Action and Its Mythology, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2005) View citations (78) (2005)
42. An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (58)
43. Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (44)
44. On the Measurement of Segregation
    Labor and Demography, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (26)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) View citations (32)
45. The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (18)
    See also Journal Article The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade, American Law and Economics Review, American Law and Economics Association (2006) View citations (94) (2006)

2003

46. Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (22)
    Also in Microeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany (2002) View citations (12)
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2002)
47. Categorical Redistribution in Winner-Take-All Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
48. Color-Blind Affirmative Action
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (34)
49. The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)
50. The Economics of 'Acting White'
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)

2002

51. Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (24)
    See also Journal Article Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2004) View citations (276) (2004)

Journal Articles

2006

1. The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade
   American Law and Economics Review, 2006, 8, (2), 249-281 View citations (94)
   See also Working Paper The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade, NBER Working Papers (2005) View citations (18) (2005)

2005

2. Affirmative Action and Its Mythology
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19, (3), 147-162 View citations (78)
   See also Working Paper Affirmative Action and Its Mythology, NBER Working Papers (2005) View citations (77) (2005)
3. Affirmative action in winner-take-all markets
   The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3, (3), 263-280 View citations (26)

2004

4. Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86, (2), 447-464 View citations (276)
   See also Working Paper Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School, NBER Working Papers (2002) View citations (24) (2002)