Overcoming the Small-N Problem
Small samples negatively affect the quality of the information we use when making group-based estimates.
Research
Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to group performance.
Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers
We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (i) immediate payment reductions to target short-run liquidity
Paid Sick Leave in Washington State: Evidence on Employee Outcomes, 2016-2018
Objectives. To estimate if Washington State's paid sick leave law increased access to paid sick leave, reduced employees' working while sick, and relieved care burdens. Methods.
Public Support Grows for Higher Teacher Pay and Expanded School Choice Results from the 2019 Education Next Survey
WITH THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN NOW UNDERWAY, education-policy proposals previously at the edge of the political debate are entering the mainstream.
Teaching Effectively with Zoom: A Practical Guide to Engage your Students and Help Them Learn
In early 2020, because of COVID-19, many colleges and schools around the world closed, and many teachers, instructors, and faculty members had to learn how to teach online in a hurry.
Structural Increases in Demand for Skill after the Great Recession
In this paper, we use detailed job vacancy data to estimate changes in skill demand in the years since the Great Recession.
Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality
States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is little research on how these changes affect the public’s perce
Children with Disabilities in the United States and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Children with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and the containment response.
Presidential Address: Aspirations, Social Norms, and Development
I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new empirical findings using individual level data on aspirations
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