Working Papers:

“Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System”
[August 2019 Version]             [INET wp 91]                    Summary: [INET]          Coverage: [Economist], [EHS], [IPKat]        [Under Review]
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“Regime Stability and Persistence of Traditional Practices​”   R&R Review of Economics and Statistics
[February 2019 Version]            [CCPR wp 2016-037]         Summary: [VoxDev]            [Being Revised]
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“Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing​?​” (with Christian Dippel)
​[June 2019 Version]                  [NBER wp 25715]            Summary: [Vox-EU]     Coverage: [NPR], [Anderson Review], [Bloomberg], [Weeds by Vox], [FAZ am Sonntag]      [Under Review]

“How Common are Judicial Electoral Cycles in Criminal Sentencing?” (with Christian Dippel)
​[April 2019 Version]                 [NBER wp 25716]            Summary: [Vox-EU]     Coverage: [Economist], [Anderson Review], [Facing South]            [Under Review]

“Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel​” (with Elliott Ash)
[August 2019 Version]                  [CBS rp]                           Coverage: [New Statesman], [The Crime Report]             [Under Review]

“State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali​” (with Maxim Ananyev)
[July 2019 Version]                   [INET wp 97]                   Summary: [INET]                       [Under Review]

“Do Dictators Signal Strength with Elections?” (with Maxim Ananyev)
[July 2019 Version]                   [CBS rp]                            [Under Review]

“The Employment Effects of a Gender-Specific Minimum Wage” (with Riccardo Marchingiglio)
[August 2019 Version]              [Under Review]
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“Colonial Origins of Intolerance” (with Maxim Ananyev)
[Available upon request]

“Effects of Student Diversity on Education and Later-Life Outcomes: Evidence from Chile” (with Juan Angel Matamala González)
[Available upon request]
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“U.S. Convict Labor System and Racial Discrimination​”
[Available upon request]

Selected Work in Progress:

“Why Aren’t People Leaving ``Janesville”?: Industry Persistence, Trade Shocks, and Mobility” (with Sebastian Ottinger)

“Estimating Socioeconomic Status from Survey Data Using Models of Hierarchical Consumption” (with Maxim Ananyev)
[Available upon request]
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“Top Executives' Ancestral Characteristics and Firm Outcomes”  (with Yuqing Zhou)

“Prison Labor and Recidivism” (with Riccardo Marchingiglio)


Book Chapters:

“Media in Russia: Between Modernization and Monopoly” (with Maria Lipman and Anna Kachkaeva)
book chapter, pp. 159-190, in Daniel Treisman ed., “The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia”, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2018 
[Jstor Link]   [Book order link]                          Coverage: [Choice Reviews], [Washington Post]

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