Publications

• Weathering an Unexpected Financial Shock: The Role of Federal Disaster Assistance on Household Finance and Business Survival (with Daniel Hartley and Shawn Rohlin), Accepted by Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
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• Criminal Deterrence when there are Offsetting Risks: Traffic Cameras, Vehicular Accidents, and Public Safety (with Paul J. Fisher), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2020), 12(3), 202-37.
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  • Public Information Act Documentation
  • Complete Texas Crash Records Information System (CRIS) vehicle accident data 2003-2009
  • Media Coverage: American Economics Association Research Highlights, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, The Conversation (republished by Houston Chronicle, Philly Voice, Scientific American), LSE American Politics and Policy Blog, Sound of Ideas (NPR, WCPN), Stateline (Pew Charitable Trusts), U.S. News & World Report.
• School Meal Quality and Academic Performance (with Michael L. Anderson and Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie), Journal of Public Economics (2018), 168, 81-93.
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  • NBER Working Paper #23218 (earlier version of paper)
  • Lunch Vendor Nutritional Assessment Report
  • Media Coverage: The Atlantic, The Brookings Institution, Education Digest, Innovation Hub (NPR, WGBH), The NBER Digest, and The New York Times
• Household Finance after a Natural Disaster: The Case of Hurricane Katrina (with Daniel Hartley), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2017), 9(3), 199-228.
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  • Media Coverage: American Economic Association (AEA) Chart of the Week, The Conversation (republished by Business Insider, Houston Chronicle, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer), and LSE American Politics and Policy Blog
• Learning About an Infrequent Event: Evidence from Flood Insurance Take-Up in the US, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2014), 6(3), 206-233.
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  • Media Coverage: AEA website, LSE American Politics and Policy Blog
• Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program (with Michael Greenstone), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2008), 123(3), 951-1003.
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Working Papers

• Traffic Safety Program Evaluation: The Empirical Bayes Model and Mean Reversion Bias (with Paul Fisher)
  • Presentation Slides (Transportation Research Board 2024)
• Local Banking Institutions and Post-Disaster Recovery (with Daniel Hartley)
  • Presentations: Climate Risk Management Conference (2023), Federal Reserve (2023), NBER (2022), AEA (2020), AERE (2019)
• Retrospective Voting and Natural Disasters that Cause No Damage: Accounting for the Selective Reporting of Weather Damage
  • Presentation Slides (Vanderbilt University 2023)
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Research in Progress

• Urban Growth Boundaries, Housing Density, and Housing Prices (with Daniel Bigelow)
• Bank Branching, Low-Income Lending, and the Household Finance of Economically Vulnerable Populations (with Garret Christensen)

Additional Research Media Coverage

• School Lunch Project: NBC (WKYC), Radio Times (NPR, WHYY)
• Red Light Camera Project: ABC (Cleveland WEWS; picked up by Cedar Rapids KCRG, Pascagoula WLOX), CBS (Cleveland, WOIO; picked up by St. Louis WOIO), CBS Radio (Austin, KRLD), The Capital Forum (Vol. 7 No. 418), Daily Mail (Australia), Fox (Baltimore, 45), NPR (Akron, WKSU), NPR (St. Louis, MO)