Research
Working Papers
- Inference on the value of a linear program (with Eric Mbakop)
- Identification of causal effects with a bunching design (with Carol Caetano, Greg Caetano and Eric Neilsen). Revisions requested at Econometrica.
- When does IV identification not restrict outcomes?
- Identifying causal effects with subjective ordinal outcome data [older arXiv version]
- Treatment effects in bunching designs: the impact of mandatory overtime pay on hours. Reject and resubmit at Econometrica.
- Testing identifying assumptions in parametric separable models: a conditional moment inequality approach (with Désiré Kédagni and Huan Wu). Reject and resubmit at Econometrics Journal.
- Mass reproducibility and replicability: a new hope (one of many authors, manuscript led by Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook). Revisions requested at Nature.
Some other work in progress
- Measuring and decomposing bias: evidence from corruption complaints in Peru (with Michael Best, Jonas Hjort, Dafne Murillo, and Gastón Pierri)
- Strategic wage concealment and labor market power (with Matt Knepper and Ian Schmutte)
- The welfare effects of conditioning the potential duration of UI benefits on prior work history (with Simon Quach)
- RDD without a discontinuity (with Junlong Feng)
Publications
- Interactions between Family and School Environments: Access to Abortion and Selective Schools (with Ofer Malamud, Cristian Pop-Eleches and Miguel Urquiola). [Ungated version]
- Journal of Human Resources, Vol 60: No 3. (2025)
- A Vector Monotonicity Assumption for Multiple Instruments Journal of Econometrics. Vol 241 (2024).
- Pure-Chance Jobs vs. a Labor Market: The Impact on Careers of a Random Serial Dictatorship for First Job Seekers (with Ashna Arora and Jonas Hjort)
- American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 111 (2021).
- Does Forest Certification Stem Tropical Deforestation? Forest Stewardship Council Certification in Mexico (with Allen Blackman and Marisol Rivera Planter)
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 89 (2018).
- Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond `Free' (with Imanol Arrieta Ibarra, Diego Jiménez Hernández, Jaron Lanier and Glen Weyl)
- American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 108 (2018).
- Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality (with John Helliwell and Guy Mayraz)
- Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54 (2018), Issue 4.