Path Dependence in the Labor Market: The Long-run Effects of Early Career Occupational Experience
with Jesse Bruhn, Jake Fabian, Matthew Gudgeon, Luke Gallagher, and Adam Isen — Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Research
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Unexpected Costs of Performance Incentives with Production Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence from a Real-Effort Laboratory Experiment
with Michael Kofoed — Economic Inquiry
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?
Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics
Entrepreneurship Among Veterans: Comparative Evidence from Recent Surveys
with William Skimmyhorn — International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship
How People Learn: Adult Learning in the Military Context
Forthcoming, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Are Students Time Constrained? Course Load, GPA, and Failure
with Alexander Amaya — Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 225
Enacting the Rubric: Teacher Improvements in Windows of High-stakes Observation
with Emily Wiseman — Education Finance and Policy, Vol. 15(2)
The Changing Occupational Distribution by College Major
with Michael Ransom — Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 45
Working Papers
More than Sheepskin: A Natural Experiment on College and Earnings
with Timothy Justicz and Joseph Price — Under review
Does Free Community College Change Who Enlists in the Military? Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence from Tennessee Promise
with Michael Brown, Celeste Carruthers, Michael Kofoed, and Jenna Kramer — Under review
Can Diversity Improve Equity? Achieving Racial Parity in Leader Assessment of Minority Team Members
with Romaine Campbell — Supported by the Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Grant. Available upon request.
The Changing Distribution of Job Specificity
Available upon request
The Cost of Bad Timing: The Effect of Military Exit Timing on Veteran Educational Attainment
with Carl Wojtaszek and Michael Kofoed — Available upon request
Works in Progress
Performance Pay for Army Recruiters: A National RCT
Effects of Default Savings Contributions on Low-Income Credit Scores
with Richard Patterson and William Skimmyhorn
The Effects of Leaders in the Army
with Luke Gallagher, Richard Patterson, and Nolan Pope
Leadership Economics: An Undergraduate Textbook
An undergraduate textbook on public choice, information economics, personnel economics, and a microeconomic model of soft human capital.