Published Research
“FIRST IMPRESSIONS MATTER: EVIDENCE FROM ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL TEACHERS”
with Y. Shi
(forthcoming) Journal of Human Resources
“LEARNERS IN CITIES: AGGLOMERATION AND THE SPATIAL DIVISION OF COGNITION”
with M. Bacolod, B. Blum and W. Strange
(2023) Regional Science and Urban Economics
“RACIAL DISPARITIES IN COVID-19 CASE POSITIVITY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT: THE ROLE OF HOUSING, NEIGHBORHOOD, AND HEALTH INSURANCE”
with W. Lowell, S. Dickerson, A. Gassman-Pines and E. Gifford
(2022) Housing Policy Debate
“Health and the Megacity: Urban Congestion, Air Pollution and Birth Outcomes in Brazil”
with R. Tome
(2022) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(115).
“ARE VOTING EXPERIENCES TRASNFORMATIVE? EXPANDING AND META_ANALYZING THE EVIDENCE”
with J. Holbein; M. Croft and R. Moore
(2021) Political Behavior
“Heightened immigration enforcement impacts US citizens’ birth outcomes: Evidence from early ICE interventions in North Carolina”
with R. Tome.; C. Gibson-Davis and L. Bellows
(2021) PLoS ONE 16(2).
“Brazil’s Missing Infants: Zika RiskChanges Reproductive BehavioR”
with J. Nobles and A. Hamoudi
(2020) Demography, Vol. 57(5): 1647-1680.
“Does Voting Have Upstream and Downstream Consequences? Regression Discontinuity Tests of the Transformative Voting Hypothesis”
with J. Holbein
(2020) The Journal of Politics, Vol. 82(4): 1196-1216.
“Agricultural Fires and Health at Birth”
with T. Vogl
(2019) The Review of Economics and Statistics , Vol. 101(4): 616−630.
“Early patterns of skill acquisition and immigrants’ specialization in STEM careers”
with Y. Shi
(2019) The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January, Volume 116(2): 484-489.
“Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from the Occupational Sorting of Childhood Immigrants”
with M. Bacolod
(2017) Demography, April, Volume 54(2): 571-602.
“Racial Discrimination in Grading: Evidence from Brazil”
with F. Botelho and R. Madeira
(2015) The American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, October, Volume 7(4): 37-52.
“Is Parental Love Colorblind? Human Capital Accumulation within Mixed Families”
(2015) The Review of Black Political Economy, June, Volume 42(1-2): 57-86.
“On the Blurring of the Color Line: Wages and Employment for Black Males of Different Skin Tones”
with D. Kreisman
(2015) The Review of Economics and Statistics, March, Vol. 97(1): 1-13.
“Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment”
with M. Angelucci, G. De Giorgi, and I. Rasul
(2010) The Journal of Public Economics, April, Vol 94 (3-4): 197-221.
“Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks”
with M. Angelucci, G. De Giorgi, and I. Rasul
(2009) The Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, October, Vol. 9(1), Contributions, Article 44.
“Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil”
(2006) The Economic Journal, July, Vol 116(513): 627–658.