Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Forthcoming

"Are Bid Preferences Benign? The Effect of Small Business Subsidies in Highway Procurement Auctions", Journal of Public Economics 91:7-8, August 2007, p. 1591-1624.
"Measuring Illegal Activity and the Effects of Regulatory Innovation: Tax Evasion and the Dyeing of Untaxed Diesel", (with Erich Muehlegger) Journal of Political Economy 116:4, p.633-666, August 2008.
"The Effects of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments on Neighborhoods," (with Nathaniel Baum-Snow) Journal of Public Economics 93:5, June 2009, p. 654-666.
"How Costly is Affirmative Action? Government Contracting and California's Proposition 209", Review of Economics and Statistics 91:3, August 2009, p. 503-522.
"Firm Racial Segregation and Affirmative Action in the Highway Construction Industry", Small Business Economics 33:4, p. 441-453, December 2009.
"Affirmative Action and the Utilization of Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses in Highway Procurement", February 2009, Economic Inquiry 49:3, p. 899-915, July 2011.
"Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment," (with Carlos Dobkin and Ricard Gil) Economics of Education Review 29:4, p. 566-575, August 2010.
Older working paper version
"Affirmative Action Programs and Business Ownership among Minorities and Women", (with Rob Fairlie) Small Business Economics, forthcoming.
"Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions," (with Erich Muehlegger) Journal of Public Economics 95:9-10, October 2011, p. 1202-1212. Link to working paper version
"The Role of Repeated Interactions, Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational [Sub]Contracting: Evidence from California Highway Procurement Auctions," (with Ricard Gil) August 2011, forthcoming Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization