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

• Marijuana legalization and drug abuse as a cause for entry into foster care with Chris Clark and Brent Evans

• Who claims the federal adoption tax credit? Those who know about it

Conference and seminar presentations

• Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings—November 2023

• Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings—November 2021

• Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference—March 2020

• Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings—November 2019

• National Tax Association Annual Conference—November 2019

• Florida Workshop in Applied and Theoretical Economics—October 2019

• Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting—October 2019

• Association for Public Policy and Management 2019 Regional Student Conference—March 2019

• Calvin College Economics Departmental Seminar—February 2019

• Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings—November 2018