Publications

• “Institution, Major, and Firm-Specific Premia: Evidence from Administrative Data”  Canadian Journal of Economics, Accepted (with Ben Ost and Doug Webber)  

• “College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections” Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming (with Ben Ost and Doug Webber)

• “Firm-Specific Pay Premia and the Returns to Higher Education: Evidence from Community College” Labour Economics, 2025, Vol. 93

• “College Entrance Exam-taking Strategies in Georgia”, Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88(2): 587-627, (with Michael D. Bloem and Jonathan Smith)

• “The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies,” Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, Vol. 36, No. 3 (with Ben Ost and Doug Webber)

• “The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students,” Labour Economics, 2018, Vol. 51 (with Ben Ost and Doug Webber)

• “The Impact of Parental Layoff on Higher Education Investment,” Economics of Education Review, 2014, Vol. 42: 53-63 (with Ben Ost)

Working Papers

“Beyond Student Peer Effects: Class Diversity, Test Scores, and the Role of Parents” (with Zhiyuan He)