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Published / Forthcoming Papers

• Aligning Student, Parent and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools, January 2012, forthcoming in Journal of Labor Economics
  Online Appendix

• Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials; The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2011) 126(4): 1755-1798

• Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children’s Zone (with Will Dobbie)

    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2011

• The Plight of Mixed Race Kids (with L. Kahn, S. Levitt, and J. Spenkuch) January 2011. forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics.

• Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination, Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 4. Part B, 2011, Pages 855-971

• It May Not Take a Village: Increasing Achievement Among the Poor, January 21, 2011, Social Inequality and Educational Disadvantage, Brooking Press.

• Measuring Crack Cocaine and Its Impact (with P. Heaton, S. Levitt, and K. Murphy), October 27, 2010, forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.

         Crack Indices reported in the paper for Cities and States  -  Crack Indices adjusted for racial composition for Cities and States

• The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap,

     Handbook of Social Economics Volume 1B November 2010

• An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White', Journal of Public Economics. Volume 94, Issues 5–6, June 2010, Pages 380-396

• An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics (with S. Levitt), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2010

• The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (with M. Greenstone). American Economic Journal:  Applied Economics . Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2010
  

• Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans (with R. Holden) July 16, 2009; forthcoming in Journal of Law and Economics.

      Accompanying Congressional District Maps:   Set 1  •  Set 2  •  Set 3

• Implicit Quotas. The Journal of Legal Studies, v38, January 2009.

• Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study (with S. Levitt and J.A. List). American Economic Review 98(2): 370-375, May 2008.
  

• A Categorical Model of Cognition and Biased Decision-Making (with M. Jackson) Contributions to Theoretical Economics, B.E. Press Feb 12, 2008. Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 6. (formerly titled "Categorcial Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making").

• Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination. Journal of Public Economics, June 2007.
  

• Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007.

         Additional Figures and Regressions

• Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children (with S. Levitt). Forthcoming in American Economic Review.

• An Economic Analysis of Color-Blind Affirmative Action (with G. Loury and T. Yuret) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.  (2008) 24(2): 319-355 first published online December 24, 2007
  

• A Measure of Segregation Based on Social Interactions (with F. Echenique.) Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2007.

     Matlab programs to calculate the Spectral index and Indices for metropolitan areas are available here. The relevant files follow: callspec.m, blockspectral.m, neighbors.m

• A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps. Rationality and Society. August 2007; vol. 19, 3:pp. 335-366.
  Online Appendix

• Acting White. Education Next, Winter 2006.
  

• Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics (with L. Anderson and C. Holt). Handbook on Economics of Discrimination, William Rogers, ed.,

        Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA (2006).

• Is School Segregation Good or Bad? (with F. Echenique and A. Kaufman). American Economic Review, May 2006.
  

• The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade (with S. Levitt). American Law and Economic Review, Summer 2006 (special issue on Brown v. Board of Education).
  

• Affirmative Action in Winner-Take-All Markets (with Glenn C. Loury) Journal of Economic Inequality, December 2005
  

• Affirmative Action and Its Mythology (with G. Loury). The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2005.
  

• An Economic Analysis of 'Acting White' (with D. Austen-Smith). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005.
  

• Experience-Based Discrimination: Classroom Games (with J. Goeree and C. Holt). The Journal of Economic Education, Spring 2005.
  

• The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names (with S. Levitt). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2004.
  A one page summary in Business Week magazine
  

• Falling Behind (with S. Levitt). Education Next, August 2004.

• Understanding The Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School (with S. Levitt). The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2004.

         An abridged version reprinted as Losing Ground at School in Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap.

Working Papers