Research
(Last updated September 2025)
Economics of Education:
“Why do Peers Influence College Major Selection?” (2025). Economic Inquiry, 63(3).
(with Ahmed Rahman and Katherine Smith)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13294)
“The Deleterious Effects of Fatigue on Final Exam Performance.” (2022). Economics of Education Review, 90.
(with Darrell Glaser)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2022.102305)
“Do Sports Crowd Out Books? The Impact of Intercollegiate Athletic Participation on Grades.” (2019). Journal of Sports Economics, 20(1).
(with Jimmy Karam)
(Permanent link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527002517716975)
“Bad Company: Understanding Negative Peer Effects in College Achievement.” (2017). European Economic Review, 98.
(with Ryan Brady and Ahmed Rahman)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.06.013)
“Education Outcomes of Children of Asian Intermarriages: Does Gender of the Immigrant Parent Matter?” (2017). B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 17(1).
(with Sukanya Basu)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1515/
“Why Does Teacher Quality Matter?”
(with Alexander McQuoid, Ahmed Rahman, and Katherine Smith - working paper available upon request)
“Physical Adversity and Academic Resiliency”
(with Jackson Roth and Katherine Smith)
“What is the Legacy of Legacy Graduates?”
(with Roger Little and Ahmed Rahman)
“Does Varsity Athletic Participation Foster Leadership Development?”
(with Roger Little)
Health and Labor Economics:
“Local Containment Policies and Country-wide Spread of Covid-19 in the United States: An Epidemiologic Analysis.” (2023). Regional Studies, 58(1).
(with Ryan Brady and Jacek Rothert)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2178643)
“The Body Mass Index Assimilation of U.S. Immigrants: Do Diet and Exercise Contribute?” (2018). Eastern Economic Journal, 44(3).
(with Sukanya Basu)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41302-017-0097-y)
(click here to access the Online Appendix)
“The Health Consequences of Retirement.” (2014). Journal of Human Resources, 49(1).
(Permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/jhr.49.1.195)
“The Big Short: Labor Market Premia and Height.”
(with Leighanne Basta, Thomas Johnstone, Alexander McQuoid, and Katherine Smith - work in progress)
“More Than a Feeling? Self-reported Health as a Health Status Indicator.”
(with Alexander McQuoid and Frey Pankratz - work in progress)
Housing and Neighborhood Choice:
“School Quality, Residential Choice, and the U.S. Housing Bubble.” (2016). Housing Policy Debate, 26(1).
(with Kurtis Swope)
(Permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/
Applied Behavioral Economics:
“From Broken Windows to Broken Bonds: Militarized Police and Social Fragmentation.” (2019). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 173.
(with Alexander McQuoid and Bryce McMurrey)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.012)
“Order of Play Advantage in Sequential Tournaments: Evidence from randomized settings in professional golf.” (2019). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 79.
(with Ryan Brady)
(Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2019.01.006)
“The Investment Decisions of Young Adults Under Relaxed Borrowing Constraints.” (2016). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 64.
(with James Compton and Pamela Schmitt)
(Permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2015.07.004)
“Does Everyone Accept a Free Lunch? Decision Making Under (almost) Zero Cost Borrowing.” (2013). Research in Experimental Economics, 16.
(Available here)
(with James Compton and Pamela Schmitt)
“A Partial Test of an Employee Work Passion Appraisal (EWPA) Model: A Longitudinal Panel Study.”
(with Aaron Robbins, Drea Zigarmi, and Jimmy Karam - working paper available upon request)
Non-peer-reviewed Publications
“The Fragmented United States of America: The Impact of Scattered Lock-down Policies on Country-wide Infections.”
(2020). Covid Economics, 43.
(with Ryan Brady and Jacek Rothert)
(Link: https://cepr.org/node/390591)
(Coverage in VoxEU: https://voxeu.org/article/local-covid-19-policies-us-impact-rest-country)
“Retention of Women in the Naval Officer Corps.” (2022). Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, March 2022.
(with Jatin Khona and Roger Little)
