Research
Publications
"Suffering in silence: How COVID-19 school closures inhibit the reporting of child maltreatment." Journal of Public Economics, 190: 104258. 2020. (with E. Jason Baron and Ezra G. Goldstein) (Working paper on SSRN)
Media coverage: Chalkbeat, CityLab, American Enterprise Institute, The New York Times, Fox News, BuzzFeed News, Scientific American, The Conversation
"Who responds to changes to the federal adoption tax credit? Evidence from Florida." Southern Economic Journal, 87(2): 483-516. 2020. (with Luke P. Rodgers)
"Information interventions and postsecondary enrollment: Evidence from Appalachian Ohio." Review of Regional Studies, 51(2): 170-207. 2021.
"The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the federal Promise Zone program." Regional Science and Urban Economics, 95: 103735. 2022. (with Carl Kitchens)
"Permitting the compensation of birth mothers for adoption expenses and its impact on adoptions." The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 22(3): 573-600. 2022.
Working papers
Conference and seminar presentations
“Information interventions and postsecondary enrollment: Evidence from Appalachian Ohio.”
Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference—March 2020
Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings—November 2019
Florida Workshop in Applied and Theoretical Economics—October 2019
Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting—October 2019
APPAM 2019 Regional Student Conference—March 2019
"Who responds to changes to the federal adoption tax credit? Evidence from Florida." (with Luke P. Rodgers)
National Tax Association Annual Conference—November 2019
Calvin College Economics Departmental Seminar—February 2019
“Does allowing prospective adoptive parents to compensate birth mothers for adoption-related expenses affect the number of infant adoptions?”
Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings—November 2018