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Peer Reviewed Publications:

    Labor Markets in Developing Countries:

  • "The Role of the Informal Sector in the Early Careers of Less-Educated Workers," Journal of Development Economics, Volume 112, January 2015, Pages 33-55. (Link to paper)

    • This paper was selected by the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Development Economics, Professor Andrew Foster, as an exemplar of an emerging subfield of Development Economics.

  • "Informal Labor Markets and On-the-Job Training: Evidence from Wage Data," Economic Inquiry, Volume 54, No. 1, January 2016, Pages 25-43. (Link to paper)

  • "Acculturation and the Labor Market in Mexico," IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Volume 5, Number 1, December 2016, Pages 1-29, with Patrick L. Mason (Link to paper)

    • Non-Production Benefits of Human Capital:

  • "The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime," Journal of Human Capital, Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2019, Pages 188-235, with Lance Lochner. (Link to paper)

    • Applied Microeconomics and Econometrics:

  • "The Differential Effects of Malpractice Reform: Defensive Medicine in Obstetrics" The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Volume 39, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 309–349, with Daniel Montanera. (Link to paper)

  • "The Effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Housing Markets," Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 43, March 2019, Pages 131-156, with Christopher Clapp and Kevin Willardsen. (Link to paper)

  • "Do Tort Reforms Impact the Incidence of Birth by Cesarean Section? A Reassessment," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2017, Pages 103-112, with Daniel Montanera (Link to paper)

  • "A Test for Exogeneity in the Presence of Non-Linearities," Stata Journal, Volume 16, Number 3, 3rd Quarter 2016, Pages 761-777, with Michael Babington. (Link to paper)

Book Reviews:

  • Review of "Coming of Age in the Other America" by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin, Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 54, No. 4, December 2016, Pages 1402-1403 (Link to review)

Other Publications:

  • "Investigating Defensive Medicine: The Role of Access", Canadian Centre for Health Economics: CHESG Special Edition. Working Paper No: 150012, with Daniel Montanera. (Link to paper)

  • "The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime", NBER Working Paper No. 24061, with Lance Lochner. (Link to paper)

Working Papers:

Work in Progress:

  • The Effect of Human Capital on Crime (with Lance Lochner)

  • Education and the Informal Sector

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