Appointments

U.S. Census Bureau, Research Economist (2015–)

Tulane University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor (2007–2015)

Affiliations

Co-PI, Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) (2016–)

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Economics, 2007

M.A. University of California, Irvine

Economics, 2006

B.A. Reed College, Portland, OR

Economics, 2000

Publications

• Race and Ethnicity (Mis)measurement in the U.S. Criminal Justice System. 2024. (with Elizabeth Luh and Michael Mueller-Smith). Forthcoming in NBER conference volume. doi. Also released as NBER WP 32657.
• The Impact of Criminal Financial Sanctions: A Multi-State Analysis of Survey and Administrative Data. 2024. (with Matthew Gross, Carl Lieberman, Elizabeth Luh, and Michael Mueller-Smith). Forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights. doi. Also released as NBER WP 31581.
• Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data. 2023. (with Michael Mueller-Smith and Brittany Street). Quarterly Journal of Economics 138(4): 2181-2224. [Supplementary materials]. doi. Also released as NBER WP 31262.
• Criminal Justice Involvement, Self-Employment, and Barriers in Recent Public Policy. 2023. (with Michael Mueller-Smith and Brittany Street). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 42(1): 11-34. doi. Earlier version released as Census Bureau ADEP Working Paper 2020-04.
• The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System: A Next-Generation Research Data Platform. 2022. (with Michael Mueller-Smith and Jordan Papp). Scientific Data 9(1): 562. doi.
• Justice-Involved Individuals in the Labor Market since the Great Recession. 2021. (with Michael Mueller-Smith). ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 695(1): 107–22. gs. doi. Also released as Census Bureau ADEP Working Paper 2021-04.
• Measuring All-Cause Mortality with the Census Numident File. 2021. (with Katie Genadek). American Journal of Public Health 111(S2): S141–S148. [Supplementary materials]. doi. Also released as Census Bureau ADEP Working Paper 2021-03.
• Racial Disparities In Excess All-Cause Mortality During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic Varied Substantially across States. 2021. (with Maria Polyakova, Victoria Udalova, Geoffrey Kocks, Katie Genadek, and Amy Finkelstein). Health Affairs 40(2): 307–16. gs. doi. Also released as Census Bureau SEHSD Working Paper 2021-01.
• Two Applications of Wild Bootstrap Methods to Improve Inference in Cluster-IV Models. 2019. (with Leandro Magnusson). Journal of Applied Econometrics 34(6): 911–33. [Supplementary materials]. gs. doi.
• Identifying Demand Responses to Illegal Drug Supply Interdictions. 2016. (with Scott Cunningham). Health Economics 25(10): 1268–90. gs. doi.
• Is Mississippi's Prescription-only Precursor Control Law a Prescription to Decrease the Production and Raise the Price of Methamphetamine?. 2015. (with Scott Cunningham and Charles Stoecker). International Journal of Drug Policy 26(11): 1144–49. gs. doi.
• Willingness-to-Accept Pharmaceutical Retail Inconvenience: Evidence from a Contingent Choice Experiment. 2015. (with Charles Stoecker and Scott Cunningham). PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126790. gs. doi.
• Who Benefits from Tax Evasion? 2013. (with James Alm). Economic Analysis and Policy 43(2): 139–54. gs.
• Parental Substance Use and Foster Care: Evidence from Two Methamphetamine Supply Shocks. 2013. (with Scott Cunningham). Economic Inquiry 51(1): 764–82. Online appendix. gs. doi.
• Is Marriage Always Better for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration. 2010. (with David Neumark). Journal of Human Resources 45(4): 1046–88. Also released as NBER WP 13928. gs. doi.
• Implementing Weak Instrument Robust Tests for a General Class of Instrumental Variables Models. 2009. (with Leandro Magnusson). Stata Journal 9(3): 398–421. gs.
• Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders. 2009. In David H. Autor, editor, Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, pp. 89–125. University of Chicago Press and NBER. Also released as NBER WP 13935. gs.

Other publications

• Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS). 2022. (with Michael Mueller-Smith).

Desert island discs

• Miles Davis. Someday My Prince Will Come.
• Harry Belafonte. Belafonte at Carnegie Hall.
• Taj Mahal. The Natch'l Blues.
• Tom Waits. Orphans: Bawlers.