Publications

Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women's Labor Supply (with J. Schaller and J. Sabia)
Journal of Human Resources. Forthcoming
[NBER Version]

Do State Tobacco 21 Laws Work? (with C. Bryan, D. McNichols, and J. Sabia)
Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming
[NBER Version]

In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide: Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures (with J. Sabia and J. Schaller)
Journal of Human Resources. forthcoming.
[NBER Version]

The Re-emerging Suicide Crisis in the US: Patterns, Causes and Solution (with D. Marcotte)
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. forthcoming.
[Journal Article][NBER Version]

The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization (with A. Chalfin and R. Ryley)
Journal of Human Resources. 2023, 58(4): 1141-1177.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

No Ground Truth? No Problem: Improving Administrative Data Linking using Active Learning and a Little Bit of Guile (with Tahamont, S., Jelveh, Z., McNeill, M., Yan, S. and A. Chalfin).
 PLoS One. 2023. 18(4): e0283811.
[Journal Article][NBER Version]

Police Force Size and Civilian Race (with A. Chalfin, E. Weisburst and M. Williams)
American Economic Review: Insights. 2022, 6(2): 139-158.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lights in New York City (with A. Chalfin, J. Lerner and L. Parker).
Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 2022, 38: 127-157.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Vertical Integration and Production Inefficiency in the Presence of a Gross Receipts Tax (with K. Miller and C. Weber).
Journal of Public Economics. 2022, 212: 104693.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Association Between Statewide COVID-19 Lottery Announcements and Vaccinations (with D. Dave, A. Friedson, and J. Sabia).
JAMA Health Forum. 2021. 2(10),
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Federalism, Partial Prohibition, and Cross-Border Sales: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana (with K. Miller and C. Weber)
Journal of Public Economics
. 2020, 187: 104159.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

The Unintended Consequences of Ban the Box: Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories Are Hidden (with J. Doleac)
Journal of Labor Economics
.2020, 38(2): 321-374.  
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Dude, Where's My Treatment Effect? Errors in Administrative Data Linking and the Destruction of Statistical Power in Randomized Experiments (with S. Tahamont, Z. Jelveh, A. Chalfin, S. Yan)
Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 2020, 37 (3): 715-749.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Taxing the Potency of Sin Goods: Evidence from Recreational Cannabis and Liquor Markets (w. K. Miller, B. Seo, and W. Weber)
National Tax Journal
. 2020, 73.2 : 511-544.
[Journal Article][Paper]

Early Evidence on Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Traffic Fatalities (with K. Miller and C. Weber)
Economic Inquiry. 2020, 58(2), 547-568.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Association of Marijuana Laws With Teen Marijuana Use: New Estimates from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (with. M. Anderson, D. Rees, and J. Sabia)
Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics
. 2019, 173(9): 879-881
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Caution! Men Not at Work: Gender Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child Abuse (with J. Lindo and J. Schaller)
Journal of Public Economics
. 2018, 163; 77-98.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Legal Access to Alcohol and Criminality (with G. Waddell)
Journal of Health Economics
. 2018, 57: 277-289.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Moving to Job Opportunities? The Effect of "Ban the Box" on the Composition of Cities (with J. Doleac)
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 2017, 107(5): 556-559.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Have Cigarette Taxes Lost Their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking (with. J Sabia and D. Rees).
American Journal of Health Economics. 2017, 3 (1):60-75.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

When Good Measurement Goes Wrong: New Evidence that New York State's Minimum Wage Reduced Employment (with J. Sabia and R. Burkhauser)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
. 2016,
[Journal Article] [Paper]

California's 2004 Workers' Compensation Reform: Costs, Claims, and Contingent Workers
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
. 2016, 69(1): 173-198.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving
American Economic Review
. 2015, 105(4): 1581-1617.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Drug Use (with M. Anderson and D. Rees)
American Law and Economics Review
, 2015. 17(2): 495–528.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [NBER Version]

Life and Death in the Fast Lane: Police Enforcement and Traffic Fatalities (with G. DeAngelo)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 2014, 6(2): 231-57.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption (with M. Anderson and D. Rees)
Journal of Law and Economics
. 2013, 56(2): 333-369.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Cigarette Taxes and How Youth Obtain Cigarettes (with D. Rees and J. Sabia)
National Tax Journal
. 2013, 66(2): 371-394.
[Journal Article] [Paper] [IZA Version]

The Minimum Dropout Age and Student Victimization (with M. Anderson and M. Walker)
Economics of Education Review,
2013, 35: 66-74.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Deterability by Age (with S. Bushway and G. DeAngelo)
International Review of Law and Economics
. 2013, 36 : 70-81.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Are the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases Always Small? New Evidence from a Case Study of NY (with J. Sabia and R. Burkhauser)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
, 2012, Vol. 65(2): 350-376.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Back to School Blues: Seasonality of Youth Suicide and the Academic Calendar (with M. Lang)
Economics of Education Review
. 2011, 30(5): 850-861.
[Journal Article] [Paper]

Time for School? When the Snow Falls, Test Scores also Drop (with D. Marcotte)
Education Next.
2010, 10(1) : 52-60.
[Journal Article] [Paper]