Working Papers
Two Decades of Massachusetts Charter School Effects. Blueprint Labs Discussion Paper #2026.09, July 2026.
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- Policy Brief
Sorting or Supporting? The Effect of Gifted Education on Achievement and Access (with Jimmy Chin), July 2026.
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The Algorithm Advantage: Ranked Application Systems Outperform Decentralized and Common Applications in Boston and Beyond (with Christopher Avery and Parag Pathak). NBER Working Paper w34207, August 2025.
School Desegregation and Long-Run Health, March 2023.
Published Papers
Heterogeneity in Damages from a Pandemic (with Amy Finkelstein, Maria Polyakova, and Victoria Udalova). Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2024.
Racial Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic Varied Substantially Across States (with Maria Polyakova, Victoria Udalova, Katie Genadek, Keith Finlay, and Amy Finkelstein). Health Affairs, February 2021.
Initial economic damage from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is more widespread across ages and geographies than initial mortality impacts (with Maria Polyakova, Victoria Udalova, and Amy Finkelstein). PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2020.
Non-Academic Publications
After a Debacle, How California Became a Role Model on Measles (with Emily Oster). The New York Times, January 2018.