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)
publications
Knowledge access: The effects of Carnegie libraries on innovation (with Enrico Berkes) Forthcoming at The Review of Economics and Statistics
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) Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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)
School closures during the 1918 flu pandemic (with Philipp Ager, Katherine Eriksson, Ezra Karger, and Melissa A. Thomasson; also NBER Working Paper w28246) Forthcoming at The Review of Economics and Statistics
Predicting education attainment: Does grit compensate for low levels of cognitive ability? (with Audrey Light), Learning and Individual Differences 2019
Predicting education attainment: Does grit compensate for low levels of cognitive ability? (with Audrey Light), Learning and Individual Differences 2019
book chapters
“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.
