Working Papers
PLUS or Minus? The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices Online Appendices available as NBER Working Paper 31291 (with Sandra Black ⓡ Lesley J. Turner), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
Coverage: Hechinger Report, Forbes, Business Insider, Texas Standard, Washington Post, The Guardian, Axios, NYTimes
A Family Affair: The Effects of College on Parent and Student Finances Online Appendices available as NBER Working Paper 33497 (with Palaash Bhargava, Sandra Black, Robert Fairlie, and Oded Gurantz)
Publications
The Graduation Part II: Graduate School Graduation Rates Pre-publication Version, Journal of Public Economics, 2025, Volume 248, article 105422 (with Lesley J. Turner)
Coverage: Inside Higher Ed
Student Loans in the United States AEFP Live Handbook, 2025
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being American Economic Review, 2023, Volume 113, Number 12, Pre-publication version Online Appendices (with Sandra Black, Lisa Dettling, Sarena Goodman, and Lesley Turner)
Coverage: New York Times DealBook
The Effects of Higher Student Loans on Access to High-Earnings Graduate Programs AEA: Papers and Proceedings, 2023 Pre-publication version Online Appendix (with Lesley J. Turner)
Class Rank and Long Run Outcomes Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, Volume 105, Issue 6, Pre-publication version (with Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt)
Coverage: Inside Higher Ed
Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, Volume 15, Number 1 , Pre-Publication version (with Sandra Black and Jesse Rothstein)
Coverage: This American Life, The Weeds Podcast, Inside Higher Ed,
The Returns to Hours Worked Within and Across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap, ILR Review, 2022, Volume 75, Issue 5, Pre-publication version Online Appendix (with Brian Jacob, Lars Lefgren, and Christian vom Lehn)
Coverage: New York Times Opinion
Decreasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree In the United States Economics of Education Review, 2022, Volume 90, Pre-publication version (with Eric Eide, Kevin Mumford, and Daniel Sabey*),
Coverage: Brookings Hutchins Roundup
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, Volume 14, Number 3. Data Appendix, Pre-publication version (with Eric Eide, Kevin Mumford, Rich Patterson, and Merrill Warnick*)
Coverage: The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Next, Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed , Harvard EdCast, Forbes
Maxed Out? The Effect of Larger Student Loan Limits on Borrowing and Education Outcomes, Journal of Human Resources, 2021, Volume 56, Number 4. Pre-publication version (with Todd R. Jones)
Nudging at Scale: Experimental Evidence from FAFSA Completion Campaigns, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, Volume 183. Pre-publication version Online Appendix (with Kelli Bird, Benjamin Castleman, Joshua Goodman, Cait Lamberton, and Kelly Rosinger)
Coverage: Inside Higher Ed, Hechinger Report
Born Under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints Journal of Human Resources, 2019, Volume 54, Number 3. Pre-publication version Online Appendix.
ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, Volume 11, Number 3. Online Appendix. Pre-publication version (with Benjamin M. Marx and Lesley J. Turner)
Coverage: New York Times, Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics Blog, KUER NPR Utah, MarketWatch, Higher Education Today, Inside Higher Education
Is Information Enough? The Effect of Information about Education Tax Benefits on Student Outcomes Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, Volume 38, Number 3. Pre-publication version Online Appendix. (with Peter Bergman and Dayanand Manoli)
Coverage: New York Times
College on the Cheap: Consequences of Community College Tuition Reductions American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, Volume 9, Number 2. Pre-publication version Online Appendix.
Coverage: Washington Post, Diverse Education, AEA: Research Highlights, Diverse Education
Was that SMART? Institutional Financial Incentives and Field of Study Journal of Human Resources, 2017, Volume 52, Number 1. Pre-publication version. (with Patrick Turley).
Works in Progress
PharmD and Supply Side Responses in Higher Education (with Ethan Lieber)
The Effects of a DUI on Earnings, and Household Finance (with Benjamin Hansen, Lars Lefgren, Emily Leslie, and Cody Tuttle)
The Effects of Education on Public Assistance and Crime (with Emily Leslie, Jack Mountjoy, and Cody Tuttle)
Teachers, Grading Leniency, and Student Success (with Rachel Nesbit, Nolan Pope, and Merrill Warnick)
Effects of Indigenous Language Instruction (with Randall Akee)
* Denotes student coauthor
Resting Papers
Welfare Effects of Changes in College Pricing (with Benjamin M. Marx and Lesley J. Turner)