Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target?  Program Access and Preschool Impacts. Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Human Resources 58(1), 1-42, January 2023.  Revised version (August 2020). [Coverage in The New York Times (June 2018, Apr. 2020, Nov. 2020, Nov. 2021), The Hechinger Report, Forbes, Quartz, The Economist, VOX]

Who Needs a Fracking Education?  The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change (with Ayushi Narayan `14).  ILR Review, 75(1), 56-89, January 2022. [Revised version, May 2020.]  [Coverage in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Salon, Business Insider]

Early Childhood Education in the United States: What, When, Where, Who, How, and Why.  Chapter 2 in Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education, ed. Brian McCall.  London and New York: Routledge, 30-72, December 2021.  [NBER Working Paper 28722, April 2021.] [Coverage in VOX.]

A Century of the American Woman Voter:  Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women's Suffrage (with Na'ama Shenhav). Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34(2), 24-48, Spring 2020. [NBER Working Paper 26709, January 2020.]  [Ungated version, January 2020.]  [Coverage in The Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, AEA Research Highlights Podcast]

Distributing the Green (Cards):  Permanent Residency and Personal Income Taxes After the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (with Ethan Lewis).  Journal of Public Economics, 172, 135-150, April 2019. [NBER Working Paper 24872, revised November 2018.]

Public Investments in Child Care.  In The 51%:  Driving Growth Through Women's Economic Participation, eds. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Ryan Nunn.  Washington, D.C.:  The Hamilton Project, 123-142, October 2017.  [Featured in this Oct. 2019 Hamilton Project Strategy Paper.]

First in the Class?  Age and the Education Production Function (with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach). Education Finance and Policy, 11(3), 225-250, Summer 2016. Pre-publication version (April 2015).  [Coverage in The New Yorker]

The Effectiveness of Policies that Promote Labor Force Participation of Women with Children:  A Collection of National Studies (with Steven J. Haider and Helena Skyt Nielsen).  Labour Economics, 36: 64-71, October 2015. IZA Discussion Paper 9297.

The Promises and Pitfalls of Universal Early Education.  IZA World of Labor 2015: 116, January 2015.  [Coverage in The Guardian, Brookings]

Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (with Ebonya Washington).  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(1), 376-433, February 2014. Pre-publication version (July 2013) Online appendix [Coverage in The Atlantic, Salon, Vox]

The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education (with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach). Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2013, 127-178. Online appendix. [Coverage in Reuters]

Local Responses to Federal Grants: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South (with Nora Gordon and Sarah Reber). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(3), 126-159, August 2013. Pre-publication version (July 2012) Online appendix.

The K-12 Education Battle (with Sarah Reber). Chapter 3 in Legacies of the War on Poverty, eds. Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, New York:  Russell Sage, 66-92, July 2013. [Coverage in The Atlantic]

The Poverty Gap in School Spending Following the Introduction of Title I (with Sarah Reber).  American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 103(3), 423-427, May 2013. Pre-publication version (January 2013)

Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation (with Ethan Lewis). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4(3), 91-117, August 2012. Pre-publication version (May 2011) Online appendix

Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous (with Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach). Journal of Health Economics, 30(5), 977-986, September 2011.

Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools (with Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(1), 445-482, February 2010. Pre-publication version (April 2009) Online appendix.

Maternal Labor Supply and the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools. The Journal of Human Resources, 44(1), 140-170, Winter 2009. Pre-publication version (December 2007) [Coverage in Reuters]

From Brown to Busing (with Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis and Sarah Reber). Journal of Urban Economics, 64(2), 296-325, September 2008.

Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood (with Damon Clark and Nora Gordon). Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(3), 47-70, Summer 2008.

Schooling and the Armed Forces Qualifying Test: Evidence from School-Entry Laws (with Ethan Lewis). The Journal of Human Resources, 41(2), 294-318, Spring 2006. Pre-publication version (October 2005)

Child Labor and Economic Development (with C. Theoharides) published in K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human resources, and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2021

Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls (with B. Feigenberg and J. Leight) published in Review of Economics and Statistics (2021)

The Short Term Impact of a Productive Asset Transfer in Families with Child Labor: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (with Caroline Theoharides), Journal of Development Economics 146, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102486

You Get What You Pay For:  Schooling Incentives and Child Labor (with Maheshwor Shrestha), Journal of Development Economics 111, 2014, 196-211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.09.005

Does Minimum Age of Employment Regulation Reduce Child Labor?  IZA World of Labor 73, 2014, doi: 10.15185/izawol.73

Independent Child Labor Migrants (with Maheshwor Shrestha) in A. Constant and K Zimmerman (eds.),  International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar, 2013, 98-120.

The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling (with Maheshwor Shrestha), IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1(14), December 2012.

Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor (with N. Schady), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, November 2012

Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform (with N. Pavcnik and P. Topalova), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, vol. 2(4): 42-75.

Selection into Worst Forms of Child Labor, Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 31, 1-32.

Trade, Child Labor, and Schooling in Poor Countries in G. Porto and B. Hoekman (eds.), Trade Adjustment Costs in Developing Countries: Impacts, Determinants, and Policy Responses, CEPR / World Bank Press, 2010.

Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work (editor with R. Akee and K. Tatsiramos). London: Emerald, 2010.

Public Health in the Economics of Child Labor in A. Fassa, D. Parker, and T. Scanlon (eds.), Child Labour—A Public Health Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Child labor and schooling in a globalizing world: Evidence from urban India (with N. Pavcnik and P. Topalova), Journal of the European Economics Association Papers and Proceedings, 2009, 7(2-3), 498-507.

The Economics of Consumer Actions against Products with Child Labor Content in H. Hindman (ed.), The World of Child Labor, M. E. Sharpe Press, 2009, 158-162.

Children's Work and Independent Child Migration: A Critical Review (with M. Shrestha), Innocenti Working Papers 2009—19, Florence: UNICEF, 2009.

Defining Child Labour: A review of the definitions of child labour in policy research / International Labour Office, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) - Geneva: ILO, 2009.

Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (with P. Salinger), Indian Growth and Development Review, 2008, 1 (1), 32-56.

Child Labor, Handbook of Development Economics Volume 4, 2008, (also available as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper # 12926

Schooling Costs: The link between tariff reform, poverty, and educational attainment (with N. Pavcnik), VoxEU.org, May 28, 2008.

Child Labor, in K. Reinert, R. Rajan, A. Glass, and L. Davis (eds.), Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press, 2007.

Trade and Child Labour (with N. Pavcnik), VoxEU.org, July 19, 2007.

Alternative Income Generation and Entry into Worst Forms of Child Labor, in Linking Theory and Practice to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor, (Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. DOL), 2006, pp. 69-114.

Child Labor and Schooling Responses to Anticipated Income in South Africa, Journal of Development Economics, December 2006, 81(2), 386-414, (an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10265).

A Review of Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati's The Economics of Child Labour (Oxford University Press, 2005), The Journal of Economic Literature, December 2006.

Understanding Sibling Differences in Child Labor, Journal of Population Economics, 19(4), October 2006, 795-821.

Trade Liberalization and the Allocation of Labor between Households and Markets in a Poor Country (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics, July 2006, 69(2), 272-295.

International Trade and Child Labor: Cross-Country Evidence (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics, January 2006, 115-140.

Rearranging the Family? Household Composition Responses to Large Pension Receipts (with K. Mammen and D. Miller), The Journal of Human Resources 40(1), Winter 2005, 186-207, (an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10306).

Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status? The Journal of Human Resources 40(1), Winter 2005, 77-99, (an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10134

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics 65(2), March 2005, 401-419, (an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #8760).

"Demographics and Productivity in Asia," in Demographics and Innovation in the Asia-Pacific, eds K. Eggleston, J. Park, and G. Shin, Brookings Institution Press, May 2021.

"Trade and Income -- Exploiting Time Series in Geography," AEJ: Applied, October 2019

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"Undergraduate Research in the Dartmouth Economics Department," Journal of Economic Education, Fall 2017.

"Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution", with Erin Mansur and Bruce Sacerdote, American Economic Review, April 2017.

"The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States", with Dimitra Politi &  David N. Weil, Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2017.

"How Much Would US Style Fiscal Integration Buffer European Unemployment and Income Shocks?", with Bruce Sacerdote, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2013.

"Global Savings and Global Investment – The Transmission of Identified Fiscal Shocks", with Jay Shambaugh, AEJ: Economic Policy, May 2012.

"The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality" , Journal of Population Economics, January 2011.

"Colonialism and Modern Income – Islands as Natural Experiments", with Bruce Sacerdote, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2009.

"Will The Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations", with Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Stern, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2008.

"The Marginal Product of Capital", with Francesco Caselli, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2007.

"Demographics and Productivity", Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2007.

"Aggregate Evidence on the Link Between Demographics and Productivity", Population and Development Review, March 2008.

"Did The Rust Belt Become Shiny?: A Study of Cities and Counties That Lost Steel and Auto Jobs in the 1980s," with Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Stern, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2007.

"Convergence By Parts,"  B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, July 2008.

"A Contribution To The Empirics of Total Factor Productivity ," with Shekhar Aiyar, Manuscript.

"Technological Leadership and Endogenous Growth,"  with Susanto Basu and David N. Weil, Manuscript.

Making the Grade: The Economic Evolution of American School Districts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

The Homevoter Hypothesis: How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

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Article: "A Structural Retirement Model," with Thomas Steinmeier, Econometrica, Vol. 54, No. 3 (May, 1986) pp. 555-584. 

Article: “The Social Security Early Retirement Age In A Structural Model of Retirement and Wealth,” with Thomas Steinmeier. Journal of Public Economics. Volume 89, Issues 2-3 (February 2005): 441-463.

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"Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s" (MIT Press, 2012)

"Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression" (Princeton University Press, 2011)

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"Distributing the Green (Cards): Permanent Residency and the Income Tax After the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986"  (with Elizabeth Cascio), Journal of Public Economics 172: April 2019 pp. 135-150.

"Immigrant-Native Substitutability and the Role of Language", in David Card and Stephen Raphael, eds., Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2013.

"Immigration and Production Technology" Annual Review of Economics (5), August 2013.

"Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation" (with Elizabeth Cascio). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4(3): August 2012, pp. 91-117.

"Immigration, Skill Mix, and Capital-Skill Complementarity." Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (2): May 2011, pp. 1029-1069.

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"Paying For Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools." (with Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, and Sarah Reber). Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(1): February 2010, pp. 445-482.

Local Labor Force Education, New Business Characteristics, and Firm Performance. (with Mark Doms and Alicia Robb). Journal of Urban Economics 67(1): January 2010, pp. 61-67.

From Brown to Busing. (with Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, and Sarah Reber) Journal of Urban Economics 64(2): September 2008, p. 296-325.

The Impact of Immigration on American Workers and Businesses.Choices 22(1): 1st Quarter 2007, p. 1-7.

The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants During the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts (with David Card) in George J. Borjas, Ed., Mexican Immigration to the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, p. 193-227.

Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws.(with Elizabeth Cascio). Journal of Human Resources 41(2): Spring 2006, p. 294-318.

"International Risk Sharing During the Globalization Era," with R. Flood and A. Matsumoto, Canadian Journal of Economics 45(2), 394-416, 2012.

"Using Inflation to Erode the U.S. Public Debt," with J. Aizenman, Journal of Macroeconomics 33(4), 524-541, 2011.

"Getting Shut Out of the International Capital Markets: It Doesn't Take Much" with R. Flood, Review of International Economics , Vol. 17, No. 5, 879-889, 2009.

"A Model of the Joint Distribution of Banking and Currency Crises, with R. Flood, Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 23, No. 6, 841-865, 2004.

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"The Merits of Horizontal Versus Vertical FDI in the Presence of Uncertainty," with Joshua Aizenman, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 62, No. 1, 125-148, 2004.

"Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility," with Robert Flood, Brookings Trade Forum 2001, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1-68, 2002.

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"Fifty Years Of Growth In American Consumption, Income, and Wages" (2017)

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"Late Interventions Matter Too: The Case of College Coaching New Hampshire" (with Scott Carrell, May 2013)

"How Much Would US Style Fiscal Integration Buffer European unemployment and Income Shocks? (A Comparative Empirical Analysis)" (with JAmes Feyrer, May 2013)

"From Natural Variation to optimal policy? The importance of endogenous peer group formation" (with Scott Carrell, May 2013)

"Katrina's children: Evidence on the structure of peer effects from hurricane evacuees" (with Scott Imberman and Adriana Kugler), The American Economic Review, Volume 102, Number 5, August 2012, pp. 2048-2082(35)

"Did the Stimulus Stimulate? Effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" (with James Feyrer, 2012)

"When the saints go marching out: long-term outcomes for student evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita"  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 4, Number 1, January 2012, pp. 109-135(27)

"How Much Would US Style Fiscal Integration Buffer European Unemployment and Income Shocks? (A Comparative Empirical Analysis)," with James Feyrer.  American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2013.

"Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects," with Scott Imberman and Adriana Kugler. American Economic Review, Vol. 102 No. 5 (August 2012) pp. 2048-82.

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"Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods," Global Finance Journal 60 (May 2024), 100940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2024.100940. (with Sophie Wang '22)

"The Survey of Consumer Finances at Forty: Reflections from an Early User." American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meetings 2023 (September 2023), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8311674

"The Economics of Social Entrepreneurship," The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 53, No. 2 (2022), 176 – 180.

"The Welfare Consequences of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security." American Economic Review, 108 (February 2018), 275 - 307. (with Erzo Luttmer)

"Research Diversity and Invention," Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 62, Issue 2 (March 2023), pp. 179-197, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-022-09891-w.

"Government Royalties on Sales of Pharmaceutical and Other Biomedical Products Developed with Substantial Public Funding: Illustrated with the Technology Transfer of the Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent", with Robert S. Danziger, Annals of Science and Technology Policy: Vol. 6: No. 1, online version, September 8, 2021, pp. 1-99; print/paper version, 2022, pp. 1-104.

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"Scientific Publications at U.S. Federal Research Laboratories", with Albert N. Link, Scientometrics, Vol. 126, Issue 3 (March 2021), pp. 2227-2248.

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 "Propensity to Patent and Firm Size for Small R&D-Intensive Firms", with Albert N. Link, Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 52, No. 4 (June 2018), pp. 561-587.

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Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising? American Economic Journal:  Applied Economics, 2016 (with Jonathan Zinman)

Corporate Prediction Markets:  Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X, Review of Economics Studies, 2015 (with Bo Cowgill)
*Incorporates material from Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows:  Evidence from Google (with Bo Cowgill and Justin Wolfers)

Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation Critical Finance Review, 2013 (with Martijn Cremers & Antti Petajisto)

Forensic Economics Journal of Economic Literature, 2012

When Should Firms Share Credit With Employees?  Evidence from Anonymously Managed Mutual Funds, Journal of Financial Economics, 2010 (with Massimo Massa and Jonathan Reuter)