Publications

Multiple Inference and Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects.  2008.  Journal of the American Statistical Association.  103(484): pp. 1481-1495.

Safety For Whom?  The Effects of Light Trucks on Traffic Fatalities.  2008.  Journal of Health Economics.  27(4): pp. 973-989.

Working Papers

The Effects of Social Status on Health: Evidence from Whitehall (Joint with Sir Michael Marmot, UCL)

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America? (Joint with David Matsa, Northwestern)

Research In Progress

The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on Utilization of Health Care Services (Joint with Carlos Dobkin, UCSC, and Tal Gross, University of Miami)

Vehicle Weight, Highway Safety, and Climate Change Policy (Joint with Max Auffhammer, UC Berkeley)

Pricing Natural Disasters: An Analysis Using California’s Natural Hazard Disclosures Act (Joint with Bing-ru Teh, Mathematica Policy Research)

Software (Stata Code)

Stata code to compute “sharpened” False Discovery Rate (FDR) adjusted q-values

Stata code to compute False Discovery Rate (FDR) adjusted q-values

(FDR q-values are described in Multiple Inference and Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects)