publications

Knowledge access: The effects of Carnegie libraries on innovation (with Enrico Berkes) Forthcoming at The Review of Economics and Statistics

The returns to public library investment (with Greg Gilpin and Ezra Karger)  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16 (2024), : 78-109 

     Media and policy mentions: Marketplace, MarketWatch, Fordham Institute

School closures during the 1918 flu pandemic (with Philipp Ager, Katherine Eriksson, Ezra Karger, and Melissa A. Thomasson; also NBER Working Paper w28246)  The Review of Economics and Statistics 106 (2024): 266-276

The Census Place Project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names (with Enrico Berkes and Ezra Karger)  Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 87 (January 2023)

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Predicting education attainment: Does grit compensate for low levels of cognitive ability? (with Audrey Light), Learning and Individual Differences 2019

  works in progress

The democratization of opportunity: The effects of the U.S. high school movement (with Ezra Karger and Alison Doxey Koetting)

Out of the university, into the workforce: Early 20th century scientific training and industrial research (with Xuechao Qian)

Do pandemics change healthcare? Evidence from the Great Influenza (with Rui Esteves, Kris James Mitchener, and Melissa A. Thomasson; also NBER Working Paper w30643)

“Credit Constraints Throughout Childhood and Education Attainment” in Annual Proceedings of The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations; The Miller Upton Forum, Volume XII, Beloit College Press. 2021.