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Working Papers

2022

1. What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, University of Chicago Press (2023) View citations (3) (2023)

2020

2. A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (5)
3. Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (7)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2022) View citations (13) (2022)
4. Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (12)

2019

5. Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (6)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (2024) (2024)
6. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2022) View citations (8) (2022)
7. Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2019) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Recruit to reject? Harvard and African American applicants, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2016

8. Parental Beliefs and Investment in Children: The Distortionary Impact of Schools
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group View citations (11)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard
   Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59, (3), 653-683
   See also Working Paper Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard, IZA Discussion Papers (2019) View citations (6) (2019)

2023

2. What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences
   Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2023, 1, (4), 615 - 668 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2022

3. Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
   European Economic Review, 2022, 144, (C) View citations (13)
   See also Working Paper Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions, IZA Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (7) (2020)
4. Identification of dynamic latent factor models of skill formation with translog production
   Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37, (6), 1256-1265 View citations (5)
5. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40, (1), 133 - 156 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard, Working Papers (2019) View citations (9) (2019)
6. Recruit to reject? Harvard and African American applicants
   Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants, Working Papers (2019) (2019)

2021

7. Local Distortions in Parental Beliefs over Child Skill
   Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129, (1), 81 - 100 View citations (16)

2019

8. Towards causal estimates of children's time allocation on skill development
   Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, (4), 588-605 View citations (34)

2017

9. Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35, (1), 191 - 225 View citations (53)

2016

10. Teacher Complementarities in Test Score Production: Evidence from Primary School
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34, (1), 29 - 61 View citations (4)

2015

11. The Specificity of General Human Capital: Evidence from College Major Choice
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33, (4), 933 - 972 View citations (78)

2013

12. SCHOOL DISCIPLINE: A SOURCE OR SALVE FOR THE RACIAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP?
    International Economic Review, 2013, 54, (1), 355-383 View citations (16)

2012

13. Assessing Rothstein's critique of teacher value‐added models
    Quantitative Economics, 2012, 3, (2), 333-362 View citations (21)
14. Beyond Levels and Growth: Estimating Teacher Value-Added and its Persistence
    Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47, (3) View citations (6)
15. Estimating spillovers using panel data, with an application to the classroom
    Quantitative Economics, 2012, 3, (3), 421-470 View citations (117)

2011

16. Family Income and Higher Education Choices: The Importance of Accounting for College Quality
    Journal of Human Capital, 2011, 5, (4), 453 - 477 View citations (25)
17. Understanding the black–white school discipline gap
    Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30, (6), 1370-1383 View citations (11)