Articles:
I. Education and Labor Market Outcomes:
“Returns to Field of Study versus School Quality: MBA Selection on Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity,” with Andrew Hussey, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming
“Survive Then Thrive: Determining Success in the Economics Ph.D. Program,” Economic Inquiry, 2007, with Donald H. Dutkowsky and Andrew Grodner.
“The Search for Ph.D. Talent: Doctoral Completion and Research Productivity of Economists,” American Economic Review, 2007, with Stephen Wu.
II. Student Learning:
“Incentives and Learning? A Natural Experiment with Economics Problem Sets,” American Economic Review, 2006, with Tim Wasserman.
“Choosing a Proxy for Academic Aptitude,” Journal of Economic Education, 2006, with Tim Wasserman and Andrew Grodner.
“The Life-Cycle Pattern of Collegiate GPA: Longitudinal Cohort Analysis and Grade Inflation,” Journal of Economic Education, 2004, with Tim Wasserman.
III. Economic History:
“’Machinery Has Completely Taken Over,’ the Diffusion of the Mechanical Cotton Picker, 1949-1964,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2008, with
Craig Heinicke.
“Labor Markets, Regional Diversity, and Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the Post-WWII U.S.,” Social Science History, 2005, with Craig Heinicke.
“Better or Worse Opportunities?: The Demise of Cotton Harvest Labor, 1949-64,” Journal of Economic History, 2003, with Craig Heinicke.
“The Economics of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the United States, 1920-1970,” Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62:2 (June), 545-549.
"Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s," Explorations in Economic History, 1994, with Lee Alston and David Wheelock.
Paper Under Review:
“Lost in Translation: The Difficulty of Identifying Foreign Talent,” with Steve Wu and Andrew Grodner; submitted in October 2008.
Work in Progress:
“Mismatch in MBA programs”
“Returns to Multiple Dimensions of Higher Ed Quality: MBA Programs, Peers and Faculty”
“Closing the Loop: Enhancing Collegiate Performance by Self-Assessment” with Jerry Evensky, Yue Hu, and Tim Wasserman.
“Systematically Biased Beliefs About Political Responsibility,” with Bryan Caplan and Ilya Somin.
“Best Proxies for Latent Academic Aptitude,” with Andrew Grodner.
“Aggregation Bias and Estimates of Student Learning,” with Tim Wasserman.
"Farmer's Technology Choices: Texas Strippers or Picking Machines, 1947-1964," with Craig Heinicke.
“The Logic of the Southern Tenant Plantation in the Twentieth Century: Weather and Regional Labor Market Arrangement in U.S. Cotton Production: 1900-1945.”