Research

Publications

• Beyong Word Embeddings: Representations for Multi-Modal Data (with Jose Gonzalez-Brenes and Ralph Edezath). Proceedings of The Thirty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2019.

• Home Price Expectations and Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Information Experiment (with Andreas Fuster and Basit Zafar). Review of Economic Studies, 2018.

• Student debt and default: The role of for-profit colleges (with Rajashri Chakrabarti and Michael Lovenheim). Journal of Financial Economics, 2022.

• Online Social Network Effects in Labor Markets: Evidence From Facebook’s Entry into College Campuses. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023.
  • Data: Facebook Release Dates for First 874 Colleges

• Measuring the Market for Legal Firearms (with Adam M. Rosenberg). AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024.

• Learning Latent Product Characteristics and Consumer Preferences From Search Data (with Greg Lewis and Giorgos Zervas). Forthcoming, Marketing Science
  • Python Package: Learning-Mkt-Struct

Working Papers

• Redesigning Federal Student Aid in Sub-baccalaureate Education (with Shengmao Cao). Job Market Paper.
• Second-Best Amendment: Market Power and Tax Design in the Firearms Industry (with Adam Rosenberg)
• What is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence (with Matthew Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica, and Jesse Shapiro). Revise and Resubmit, AER:Insights

Work in Progress

• The Long-term Effects of Expanding Social Capital via Social Media (with Mike Bailey).

• Accreditation and the Supply of Higher Education in the United States.

• Estimating College-level Returns in Non-selective Higher Education (with Shengmao Cao)