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Published Papers

Optimal Gerrymandering: Sometimes Pack but Never Crack
American Economic Review, 98(1): 113-144, March 2008
(joint with Richard Holden)

The Rising Incumbent Advantage: What's Gerrymandering Got To Do With It?
Journal of Politics, 71(2): 593-611, 2009
(joint with Richard Holden)
See Also: Web Appendix and Redistricting Dataset

Performance Improvement and Performance Dysfunction: An Empirical Examination of Distortionary Impacts
of the Emergency Room Wait-Time Target in the English National Health Service

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19(4): 947-966, October 2009
(joint with Steve Kelman)

Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities:
Evidence from Danish Tax Records

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(2): 749-804, May 2011
(joint with Raj Chetty, Tore Olsen, and Luigi Pistaferri)
See Also: Online Appendix and Program to Calculate Bunching in STATA

How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(4): 1593-1660, November 2011
(joint with Raj Chetty, Nate Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan)
See Also: Slides and Non-Technical Summary

Using Neighborhood Effects to Uncover the Impacts of Tax Policy: The Effect of the EITC on Earnings
American Economic Review, forthcoming
(joint with Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez)
See Also: Web Appendix, Slides, NRP Tabulations, NBER WP 18232 (Longer Version with Complete Results), and Publicly Available Files (Code, Data, and Sharp Bunching Measures by ZIP-3)



Working Papers

UPDATED Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments
May 2013
(joint with Michal Kolesar, Raj Chetty, Edward Glaeser and Guido Imbens)



PAPER NOW AVAILABLE Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark
January 2013, R&R at Quarterly Journal of Economics
(joint with Raj Chetty, Soren Leth-Petersen, Torben Heien Nielsen, and Tore Olsen)
See Also: Slides and Executive Summary



Measuring the Impacts of Teacher I: Developing Unbiased Estimates of Teacher Value-Added
December 2011, R&R at American Economic Review
(joint with Raj Chetty and Jonah Rockoff)
See Also: Executive Summary and Slides

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Value-Added and Students Outcomes in Adulthood
December 2011, R&R at American Economic Review
(joint with Raj Chetty and Jonah Rockoff)

(Note: The above two papers have previously circulated jointly as NBER WP 17699, "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood")
See Also: Executive Summary and Slides



Predicting Medicare Cost Growth
December 2009



The Incidence of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Using Asset Prices to Assess
its Impact on Drug Makers

January 2009



Optimal Gerrymandering in a Competitive Environment
December 2008
(joint with Richard Holden)

Effort As Investment: Analyzing the Response to Incentives
March 2008, (revise and resubmit at AEJ: Public Policy)
(joint with Steven Kelman)



 

 

 
 
 
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