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Working Papers

2025

1. Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Chapter Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2025) (2025)
   Journal Article Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation, Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press (2026) (2026)

2023

2. Testing Above the Limit: Drinking Water Contamination and Test Scores
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2025) (2025)
3. Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water: Evidence from PFAS and Housing Prices
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Unregulated contaminants in drinking water: Evidence from PFAS and housing prices, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2024) View citations (2) (2024)

2022

4. Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2025) View citations (1) (2025)

2021

5. A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
   See also Journal Article A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (2025) (2025)
6. Bad Lighting: Effects of Youth Indoor Tanning Prohibitions
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Bad lighting: Effects of youth indoor tanning prohibitions, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (3) (2023)
7. The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2022) View citations (10) (2022)

2020

8. The role of parallel trends in event study settings: An application to environmental economics
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article The Role of Parallel Trends in Event Study Settings: An Application to Environmental Economics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press (2021) View citations (84) (2021)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Can We Get the Lead Out? Updates to the Lead and Copper Rule for Public Drinking Water
   Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2026, 20, (1), 45 - 53
2. Expanding Public Health Insurance to Parents
   American Journal of Health Economics, 2026, 12, (2), 260 - 288
3. Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation
   Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2026, 7, (1), 149 - 183
   See also Working Paper Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation, NBER Working Papers (2025) (2025)
   Chapter Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation, NBER Chapters, 2025, 149-183 (2025) (2025)

2025

4. A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight
   Journal of Human Resources, 2025, 60, (6), 1915-1936
   See also Working Paper A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (11) (2021)
5. Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores
   Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 243, (C)
   See also Working Paper Testing Above the Limit: Drinking Water Contamination and Test Scores, NBER Working Papers (2023) (2023)
6. Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17, (1), 37-69 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (4) (2022)

2024

7. Unregulated contaminants in drinking water: Evidence from PFAS and housing prices
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024, 125, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water: Evidence from PFAS and Housing Prices, NBER Working Papers (2023) (2023)

2023

8. Bad lighting: Effects of youth indoor tanning prohibitions
   Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 88, (C) View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Bad Lighting: Effects of Youth Indoor Tanning Prohibitions, NBER Working Papers (2021) (2021)

2022

9. Testing the Water: Drinking Water Quality, Public Notification, and Child Outcomes
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104, (6), 1289-1303 View citations (6)
10. The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
    Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, (C) View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2021

11. Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13, (1), 1-37 View citations (13)
12. Pollution at schools and children's aerobic capacity
    Health Economics, 2021, 30, (12), 3016-3031 View citations (1)
13. The Role of Parallel Trends in Event Study Settings: An Application to Environmental Economics
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2021, 8, (2), 235 - 275 View citations (84)
    See also Working Paper The role of parallel trends in event study settings: An application to environmental economics, Papers (2020) View citations (5) (2020)

2017

14. On the road to recovery: Gasoline content regulations and child health
    Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 54, (C), 98-123 View citations (16)

Chapters

2025

1. Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation
   A chapter in Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, volume 7, 2025, pp 149-183
   See also Working Paper Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2025) (2025)
   Journal Article Targeting Distributional Impacts in the Presence of Behavioral Responses: Lessons from Maritime Emissions Regulation, University of Chicago Press (2026) (2026)