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Select Works on the Economics of Education
(2022-05-04)
This dissertation comprises three essays in the field of economics of education. The first essay studies the short and long-run effects of Head Start, a federally funded early childhood education program that targets ...
Geographic Propensity Scores for Endogenous Boundaries: An Application to HOLC Redlining
(2022-06-03)
Geographic policies often come in two parts: first, geographic boundaries are determined, and second, a treatment is applied based on the boundaries. Separating the effect of the treatment from the boundary drawing process ...
Essays on Identification and Causality
(2022-04-20)
This dissertation contains three chapters in econometrics. A common theme is identification analysis, with a particular focus on understanding what researchers can learn from data under weak assumptions on economic behavior ...
Evaluating the normal approximation in econometric models
(2022-06-03)
Many models in the economics literature are estimated using generalized method of moments (GMM) and other extremum estimators that attempt to minimize an objective function with few assumptions about the underlying data. ...
Policy and Inequality in the Criminal Legal System
(2022-03-17)
This dissertation contains three chapters exploring the application of law and bureaucratic practices in law enforcement agencies and their impacts on community welfare across race and class. Chapter 1 is an analysis of ...