Research

Publications:

The Impact of Criminal Financial Sanctions: A Multi-State Analysis of Survey and Administrative Data” with Keith Finlay, Matthew Gross, Carl Lieberman, and Elizabeth Luh. Conditional accept at American Economic Review: Insights.
Subsumes two prior working papers, previously circulated as:

Children’s Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data” with Keith Finlay and Brittany Street. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(4), 2181-2224, November 2023.

Inventory of U.S. public data sources to measure the socioeconomic impact of experiencing interpersonal violence” with Jordan Papp, Megan Kearns, and Cora Peterson. AJPM Focus, 2(3), September 2023.

Hierarchical Approaches to Text-based Offense Classification” with Jay Choi, David Kilmer, and Sema Taheri. Science Advances, 9(9), March 2023.

Criminal Justice Involvement, Self-employment, and Barriers in Recent Public Policy” with Keith Finlay and Brittany Street. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 42(1), 11-34, January 2023.

Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from SSI” with Manasi Deshpande. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(4), 2263-2307, November 2022.

The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System: A Next-Generation Research Data Platform,” with Keith Finlay and Jordan Papp. Scientific Data, 562(9), 1-11, September 2022.

Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes,” with Janet Currie and Maya Rossin-Slater, Review of Economics and Statistics, 104(3): 525-540, May 2022.

Justice-involved Individuals in the Labor Market since the Great Recession” with Keith Finlay. In What has happened to the American Working Class since the Great Recession? in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 695(1), May 2021.

Diversion in the Criminal Justice System,” with Kevin Schnepel, Review of Economic Studies, 88(2): 883–936, March 2021.

Effect of Registered Partnership on Labor Earnings and Fertility for Same-Sex Couples: Evidence From Swedish Register Data” (with Lina Alden, Lena Edlund, Mats Hammerstedt), Demography, 52(4): 1243-1268, August 2015.

Working Papers:

The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S.” with James Reeves, Kevin Schnepel, and Caroline Walker.

Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority: Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework” with Benjamin Pyle and Caroline Walker. 

Modernizing Person-Level Entity Resolution with Biometrically Linked Records,” with Matthew Gross.

“Inequalities in U.S. Criminal Justice and Economic Outcomes” with Keith Finlay.

The Criminal and Labor Market Impacts of Incarceration” Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Review.