Research

Working Papers

The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

with Emma Harrington and Amanda PallaisNBER DigestSelected Coverage: The New York Times • Fortune • The Economist • The Washington Post • Bloomberg • Vox • The Wall Street Journal

The Payoffs of Higher Pay: Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to a Voluntary Minimum Wage
Under Review

with Emma Harrington[Updated Feb 2025 • Expands and subsumes "The Payoffs of Higher Pay"] Selected Coverage: The Wall Street Journal • Marginal Revolution

Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement
Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

with Jason Baron, Joseph Doyle, Peter Hull, and Joe Ryan

Published and Accepted Work

Sins of Omission: Model-based Estimates of the Health Effects of Excluding Pregnant Participants from Randomized Controlled Trials
Annals of Internal Medicine (2025)

with Alyssa Bilinski and Andrea Ciaranello
Code

Fewer than 1% of United States Clinical Drug Trials Enroll Pregnant Participants
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2025)

with Alyssa Bilinski Video • Code

Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2024)

with Jason Baron, Joseph Doyle, Peter Hull, and Joe Ryan Appendix • Twitter Thread • NBER Digest • Code

Unwarranted Disparity in High-Stakes Decisions: Race Measurement and Policy Responses
Forthcoming at CRIW Race, Ethnicity and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century

with Jason Baron, Joseph Doyle, Peter Hull, and Joe Ryan
Slides

"Working" Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and Market Provision of Remote Work
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2024)

Awarded 2025 Best AEJ:Applied Paper with Emma Harrington
Appendix • SlidesSelected Coverage: Marginal Revolution • The Economist • The Financial Times • BBC • The New York Times • NPR • Vox

Tripping Through Hoops: The Effect of Violating Compulsory Government Procedures
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2024)

with Helen Ho Coverage: Probable Causation Podcast

State-Level Variation in the Risk of Child Welfare System Contact among U.S. Children, 2008-2018
Children and Youth Services Review (2023)

with Youngmin Yi, Frank Edwards, Hedwig Lee, John Leventhal, Jane Waldfogel, and Christopher Wildeman

Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators
Journal of Labor Economics (2021)

with Valentin BolotnyyCoverage: The Wall Street Journal • Marginal Revolution • Society of Human Resources • Quartz

State-Level Variation in the Imprisonment-Mortality Relationship, 2001-2010
Demographic Research (2016)

with Christopher Wildeman, Margaret E. Noonan, Daniela Golinelli, and E. Ann Carson.

Mortality among White, Black and Hispanic Male and Female State Prisoners, 2001-2009
SSM Population Health (2016)

with Christopher Wildeman, E. Ann Carson, Daniela Golinelli, Margaret Noonan

The Prevalence of Confirmed Maltreatment Among US Children, 2004 to 2011
JAMA Pediatrics. (2014)

with Christopher Wildeman, John Leventhal, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Jane Waldfogel, and Hedwig Lee.Coverage: National Public Radio • US News and World Report • Reuters

Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement for Danish Children
PLoS One (2014)

with Peter Fallesen and Christopher Wildeman

Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement by Age 18 for U.S. Children, 2000-2011
PLoS One. (2014)

with Christopher WildemanCoverage: Cited in Evicted

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Research

Working Papers

The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

The Payoffs of Higher Pay: Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to a Voluntary Minimum Wage Under Review

Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Published and Accepted Work

Sins of Omission: Model-based Estimates of the Health Effects of Excluding Pregnant Participants from Randomized Controlled Trials Annals of Internal Medicine (2025)

Fewer than 1% of United States Clinical Drug Trials Enroll Pregnant Participants American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2025)

Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection Quarterly Journal of Economics (2024)

Unwarranted Disparity in High-Stakes Decisions: Race Measurement and Policy Responses Forthcoming at CRIW Race, Ethnicity and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century

"Working" Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and Market Provision of Remote Work American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2024)

Tripping Through Hoops: The Effect of Violating Compulsory Government Procedures American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2024)

State-Level Variation in the Risk of Child Welfare System Contact among U.S. Children, 2008-2018 Children and Youth Services Review (2023)

Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators Journal of Labor Economics (2021)

State-Level Variation in the Imprisonment-Mortality Relationship, 2001-2010 Demographic Research (2016)

Mortality among White, Black and Hispanic Male and Female State Prisoners, 2001-2009 SSM Population Health (2016)

The Prevalence of Confirmed Maltreatment Among US Children, 2004 to 2011 JAMA Pediatrics. (2014)

Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement for Danish Children PLoS One (2014)

Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement by Age 18 for U.S. Children, 2000-2011 PLoS One. (2014)