Papers
"Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2009.
"The Lengthening of Childhood" (with Susan Dynarski) - Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol 22(3): 71-92. (Summer 2008.)
This paper is featured in the 2008 New York Times Magazine Year in Ideas Issue.
Other media coverage: Conde Nast Portfolio, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New America Foundation.
"The Effect of School Choice on College Attendance" - (coming soon - email me for a draft)
"Schooling and the Antecedents of Crime" - (coming soon)
"Segregation and the Shadow Price of Same-Race Preferences" (with Tom Kane) - in progress.
"Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor" (with Susan Dynarski) - email me for a draft.