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Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

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Special Issues and Invited Submissions

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Working Papers

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​​"The Effect of Selective Colleges on Student Partisanship"

(Sole Author) [SOCAE 2022 Best Paper Award] [Working Paper]

Media Coverage: The Boston Globe, Marginal Revolution

Abstract: College-educated voters are trending toward the political left across democracies, with the most politically powerful and left-leaning students originating from a smaller number of elite colleges. Using data on over 250,000 University of California applicants and multiple discontinuous admission policies, I estimate the impact of elite colleges on later life partisanship. Admission to highly selective campuses shifts students away from the Republican Party and toward independent or Democratic registration. Administrative data, surveys, and a poll of in-sample students show that on-campus peer socialization and long-run mechanisms like graduate school attendance are plausible, but intentional efforts by faculty to persuade their students are unlikely to explain these results.​​

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"Nonresident Tuition and Human Capital Flows: Evidence from a Lottery"

(Sole Author)​ [Draft Available Upon Request]

Abstract: Nonresident tuition policy presents trade-offs between short-run college revenue and the longer-run migration of high-skill nonresidents. I use a pre-analysis plan and a computer-randomized fee waiver lottery at a major American university to identify the longer-run impact of nonresident tuition. I find that reducing supplemental tuition for nonresident students increases migration to the target state 12 years later, attracting workers with pre-specified innovation and executive skills. Every 10,000 dollars in tuition waivers offered costs the university roughly 800 dollars in the short-run, but raises the net present value of longer-run estimated earnings from targeted students by 25,300 dollars within the local labor market.​​

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Works in Progress​

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"Partisan Costs of Unfulfilled Student Loan Forgiveness" (with Michael Patrick Span)​

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"From Training to Employment: A Multi-Inquiry Study of Noncredit Workforce Training Programs" (with Di Xu, Benjamin Castleman, Catherine Finnegan, Betsy Tessler, Kelli Bird, and Sabrina Solanki)​

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"Rational Inattention and the Size of Government" (Sole Author)​

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