Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Economics · August 1, 2024
We develop empirical tools for studying discrimination in multiphase systems and apply them to the setting of foster care placement by child protective services. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of two sets of decision-makers—initial hotline call scr ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Policy Analysis and Management · March 1, 2023
We conduct the first quantitative analysis of “blind removals,” an increasingly popular reform that seeks to reduce the over-representation of Black children in foster care by eliminating biases in the removal decisions of investigators. We first show that ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Public Economics · January 1, 2023
Roughly one in four juveniles arrested in the U.S. spend time in a detention center prior to their court date. To study the consequences of this practice for youth, we link the universe of individual public school records in Michigan to juvenile and adult ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics · April 1, 2022
Six percent of children in the United States enter foster care by age 18. We estimate the effects of foster care on children's outcomes by exploiting the quasi-random assignment of child welfare investigators in Michigan. We find that foster care improved ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy · February 1, 2022
This study examines the impacts of two distinct types of school spending on student outcomes. State-imposed revenue limits cap the total amount of revenue that a school district in Wisconsin can raise unless the district holds a referendum asking voters to ...
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ConferenceAEA Papers and Proceedings · May 1, 2021
This study examines the impact of performance pay on teacher selection. I exploit a shift toward performance pay in Wisconsin induced by the enactment of Act 10, which gave school districts autonomy to redesign their compensation schemes. Followin ...
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