Papers
available on-line:
“Catholic
Schools, Competition, and Public School Quality,” with Juliana F.
Carratini, Sean E. Mulholland, and Rachel B. Sederberg. Economics Letters, 117(1), October 2012, 334-336. (ungated
earlier version here)
“Recess,
Physical Education, and Elementary School Student Outcomes,” with Hillary
Morgan and Kurt Rotthoff, Economics of
Education Review, forthcoming.
(invited) Ungated
here.
“Negative
Publicity and Catholic Schools,” with Rey Hernández, Economic Inquiry, January 2012,
50(1), 143-152. Ungated
here.
“More
Choice, Less Crime,” with Rey Hernández, Education Finance and Policy, Spring 2011, 6(2), 246-266. Ungated
here.
“What do Economists Know about Crime?” with Jeff Miron and Garrett Summers, in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for & from Latin American, Sebastian Edwards, Rafael Di Tella, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Also NBER WP#13759, January 2008. Ungated here.
“Course
Scheduling and Academic Performance,” with Rey Hernández, Economics of Education Review, December
2008, 27, 646-654. Discussed in the Chronicle
of Higher Education, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, Today’s News,
“Late to Rise Seems to Make Students Wise,” by David Glenn (http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/12/8694n.htm).
Discussed in the Atlanta Journal
Constitution, December 29, 2008, “Sleepy youths have science on
side,” by Maureen Downey (http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2008/12/29/learned.html).
Ungated
here.
“Transfer College Quality and Student Performance,” with Rey Hernández, Eastern Economic Journal, 34(2), April 2008, 172-189. Also, CHERI working paper #98 and discussed on Inside Higher Education (http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/04/outcome)
“The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Drunkenness Arrests,” with Mireille Jacobson and Jeffrey A. Miron, Economics Letters, February 2005, 86(2), 279-294. Reprinted in John H. Cawley and Donald S. Kenkel, eds., The Economics of Health Behaviours, June 2008.
Working papers available on-line: