Publications
- For a complete list of publications, please refer to my ResearchGate page.
Forthcoming Publications
- “Embrace the Noise: It Is OK to Ignore Measurement Error in a Covariate, Sometimes” with Hao Dong. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A.
Under Revision
- “Partisan Mortality Cycles,” with Travis Whitacre. Journal of Population Economics.
- “On the Mis(Use) of the Fixed Effects Estimator,” with Marc Bellemare. Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics.
- “The Impact of Nonclassical Measurement Error on Trends in Income Inequality and Polarization in the United States,” with Chris Parmeter. Empirical Economics.
Research in Progress
- “Eligibility Screening and Means Testing in Consumer Bankruptcy,” with Nate Pattison.
- “(Don’t) Walk this Way: The Econometrics of Crosswalks.”
Stata Code
- “Partial Identification of Economic Mobility,” with with Hao Li and Punarjit Roychowdhury.
- “Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: with Applications to Early Childhood Development,” with Ian K. McDonough. Journal of Applied Econometrics.
- “Partial Identification of the Long-Run Causal Effect of Food Security on Child Health,” with Manan Roy. Empirical Economics.
- “Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program,” with Rusty Tchernis. Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Unpublished Files Referenced in Published Work
- “Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: with Applications to Early Childhood Development,” with Ian K. McDonough. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 725-743. [Appendix]
- “Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households,” with Wenhua Di. Empirical Economics, 2017, 52, 1115-1142. [Appendix]
- “Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous,” with Jayjit Roy.Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31, 652-677. [Appendix C]
- “Persistence of Childhood Obesity,” with Rusty Tchernis. [Appendix]
- “Detailed Estimation of Worklife Expectancy for the Measurement of Human Capital: Accounting for Marriage and Children,” with Michael Nieswiadomy and Daniel J. Slottje. Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24, 339-361. [tables]
- “The Mythical ‘Boy Crisis’?” with M.H. Husain. Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28, 38-48. [Appendix]
- “It’s All in the Timing: Assessing the Impact of Bilateral Tax Treaties on US FDI Activity,” with A. Kumas, in L. Sachs and K.P. Sauvant (eds.), The Effect of BITs and DTTs on FDI Flows, Oxford University Press, 2008. [Appendix]
- “Is Gravity Linear?,” with D.J. Henderson. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23, 137-172. [Appendix B] [Appendix C]
- “Pollution Abatement Costs and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to U.S. States: A Nonparametric Reassessment,” with D.J. Henderson. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89, 178-183. [additional results]
- “Strategic Competition Amongst Public Schools,” with V. Rangaprasad. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37, 199-219. [additional results]
- “Robust Inference Concerning Recent Trends in U.S. Environmental Quality,” with E. Maasoumi. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20, 55-77. [longer version]
- “Environmental Abatement Costs and Establishment Size.” Contemporary Economic Policy, 2003, 21, 281-296. [additional results]
- “Corruption, Environmental Policy, and FDI: Theory and Evidence from the United States,” with P.G. Fredriksson and J.A. List. Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87, 1407-1430. [additional results]
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