Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Forthcoming

"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.
"How Costly is Affirmative Action? Government Contracting and California's Proposition 209", Review of Economics and Statistics 91:3, August 2009, p. 503-522.
"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.
"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.
"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 , forthcoming.
"Causes and Consequences of Skipping Class in College," (with Carlos Dobkin and Ricard Gil) April 2007, accepted to Economics of Education Review