Working papers
Publications and Forthcoming
Working paper version
NBER Digest Coverage
Vox Summary
"Sourcing from
the Enemy: Horizontal Subcontracting in Highway Procurement," Journal of Industrial Economics 63:1, p. 100-128, 2015.
"Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational Contracting:
Evidence from California Highway Procurement," (with Ricard
Gil) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 29:2, p. 239-77, April 2013.
"Affirmative Action Programs and Business Ownership among Minorities and Women",
(with Rob Fairlie) Small Business Economics, 39:2, p. 319-339, September 2012.
"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
"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
"Firm Racial Segregation and Affirmative Action
in the Highway Construction Industry",
Small Business Economics 33:4, p. 441-453, December 2009.
"How Costly is Affirmative Action? Government Contracting and California's
Proposition 209", Review of Economics and Statistics 91:3, August 2009, p. 503-522.
"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.
"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.
"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.