PUBLICATIONS

“First Generation College Students and Peer Effects” (with Michael Kofoed). Accepted, Labour Economics.

“The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty” (with Arielle Sloan), 2024, Journal of Economic Education, 55(4), 434-454.

“Parental and Student Time Use Around the Academic Year” (with Benjamin Cowan and Jeffrey Swigert), 2024, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 224:66-110.

“Changes in Parental Gender Preference in the United States: Evidence from 1850-2019” (with Matthew Millington and Joseph Price), 2023, Journal of Population Economics, 36:3057–3070.

“The Graduate School Origins of Finance Faculty” (with Haoyang Xiong), 2023, Journal of Empirical Finance, 71:88-103. See below for data.

“The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Student Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach” (with Daniel Kreisman, Ross Rubenstein, Cynthia Searcy, and Rachana Bhatt), 2022, Education Finance and Policy, 17(2):206-231.

“Maxed Out: The Human Capital Effects of Larger Student Loan Limits” (with Jeffrey Denning), 2021, Journal of Human Resources, 56(4):1113-1140.

“College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking” (with Ishtiaque Fazlul and Jonathan Smith), 2021, Economics of Education Review, 84:102-155.

“Do Peers Influence Occupational Preferences? Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Peer Groups at West Point” (with Michael Kofoed), 2020, Journal of Public Economics, 184:104-154.

“Are High-Quality PhD Programs at Universities Associated with More Undergraduate Students Pursuing PhD Study?" (with Ronald Ehrenberg), 2019, Education Economics, 27(5):451-471.

“Information and the Beauty Premium in Political Elections” (with Joseph Price), 2017, Contemporary Economic Policy, 35:677-683. Online appendix.

“SigTree: A Microbial Community Analysis Tool to Identify and Visualize Significantly Responsive Branches in a Phylogenetic Tree” (with John Stevens, Michael Lefevre, Balasubramanian Ganesan, and Bart Weimer), 2017, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 15:372-376.

• Developed SigTree, the corresponding R package (with John Stevens)

WORKING PAPERS

“School and Crime” (with Ezra Karger). Reject and resubmit, AEJ: Economic Policy.

“Cheaper by the Dozen: Parental Time Use and Returns to Scale in Raising Children” (with Ezra Karger and Valerie Michelman).

“Paying for Prestige: Compensating Differentials in Faculty Job Choice” (with Alex Bell). Draft available upon request.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“Social Substitution?: Time Use Responses to Increased Workplace Isolation” (with Benjamin Cowan).

“Conferences and Coauthors” (with Ezra Karger).

“The Morphology of Crime” (with Benjamin Cowan and Ezra Karger).

“Datasets in Applied Microeconomics.”

“WAR, What Is It Good For? Rethinking Wins Above Replacement in Baseball” (with Frank DiTraglia and Ezra Karger).

“The Effects of School and Non-school Resources on Student Outcomes” (with Ezra Karger and Sarah Komisarow).

“Outcomes of Ph.D. Economists” (with Ezra Karger).

BOOKS

“Quick Stata Tips." Link to book and accompanying .do file.

OTHER WRITING

“Moms lose significant sleep and free time during kids’ school year, new study finds” (with Benjamin Cowan and Jeffrey Swigert), 2023. The Conversation.

“Taking Advanced Placement Courses but Not the Exam” (with Ishtiaque Fazlul and Jonathan Smith), 2020. Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education, Georgia Policy Labs.

“Post-Secondary Financial Aid Foundational Report: 2013-14 to 2018-19," 2020. Child and Family Policy Lab, Georgia Policy Labs.

DATA

Data for “The Graduate School Origins of Finance Faculty.” If you use the data, please cite our paper as well as John Hasselback, who compiled the data.