Publications
Learning from the Crowd: Regression Discontinuity Estimates of the Effects of an Online Review Database. Forthcoming, Economic Journal. (Joint with Jeremy Magruder, UC Berkeley)
The Effects of Promotions on Heart Disease: Evidence from Whitehall. Forthcoming, Economic Journal. (Joint with Sir Michael Marmot, UCL)
The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 4(1): pp. 1–27 (Lead article). (Joint with Carlos Dobkin, UCSC, and Tal Gross, Columbia University)
Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America? 2011. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 3(1): pp. 152–188. (Joint with David Matsa, Northwestern)
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
Pounds That Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight (Joint with Max Auffhammer, UC Berkeley)
Peer Effects in Microenvironments: The Benefits of Homogeneous Classroom Groups
(Joint with Fangwen Lu, Renmin University)
Research In Progress
The Effects of Health Insurance Coverage Among College-Educated Individuals. Joint with Carlos Dobkin, UC Santa Cruz, and Tal Gross, Columbia University.
Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns: The Impacts of Public Transit on Highway Congestion.
The Benefits of College Athletic Success: An Application of Propensity Score Matching with Instrumental Variables.
As the Wind Blows: The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality.
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)
