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Published / Forthcoming Papers

• Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan (with Steven Levitt), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 1883-1925

• Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools, November 2011, forthcoming in Journal of Labor Economics

• Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials; The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2011) 126(4): 1755-1798

• Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children’s Zone (with Will Dobbie) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2011
  

• The Plight of Mixed Race Kids (with L. Kahn, S. Levitt, and J. Spenkuch) January 2011. forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics.

• Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination, Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 4. Part B, 2011, Pages 855-971

• It May Not Take a Village: Increasing Achievement Among the Poor, January 21, 2011, Social Inequality and Educational Disadvantage, Brooking Press.

• Measuring Crack Cocaine and Its Impact (with P. Heaton, S. Levitt, and K. Murphy), October 27, 2010, forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.
• Crack Indices reported in the paper for Cities and States  -  Crack Indices adjusted for racial composition for Cities and States
  

• The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap, Handbook of Social Economics Volume 1B November 2010
  

• An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White', Journal of Public Economics. Volume 94, Issues 5–6, June 2010, Pages 380-396

• An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics (with S. Levitt), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2010

• The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (with M. Greenstone). American Economic Journal:  Applied Economics . Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2010
  

• Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans (with R. Holden) July 16, 2011; Journal of Law and Economics.
• Accompanying Congressional District Maps:   Set 1  •  Set 2 •  Set 3
  

• Implicit Quotas. The Journal of Legal Studies, v38, January 2009.

• Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study (with S. Levitt and J.A. List). American Economic Review 98(2): 370-375, May 2008.
  

• A Categorical Model of Cognition and Biased Decision-Making (with M. Jackson) Contributions to Theoretical Economics, B.E. Press Feb 12, 2008. Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 6. (formerly titled "Categorcial Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making").

• Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination. Journal of Public Economics, June 2007.
  

• Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007.
• Additional Figures and Regressions
  

• Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children (with S. Levitt). Forthcoming in American Economic Review.

• An Economic Analysis of Color-Blind Affirmative Action (with G. Loury and T. Yuret) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.  (2008) 24(2): 319-355 first published online December 24, 2007
  

• A Measure of Segregation Based on Social Interactions (with F. Echenique.) Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2007.
• Matlab programs to calculate the Spectral index and Indices for metropolitan areas are available here. The relevant files follow: callspec.m, blockspectral.m, neighbors.m
  

• A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps. Rationality and Society. August 2007; vol. 19, 3:pp. 335-366.
  Online Appendix

• Acting White. Education Next, Winter 2006.
  

• Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics (with L. Anderson and C. Holt). Handbook on Economics of Discrimination, William Rogers, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA (2006).
  

• Is School Segregation Good or Bad? (with F. Echenique and A. Kaufman). American Economic Review, May 2006.
  

• The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade (with S. Levitt). American Law and Economic Review, Summer 2006 (special issue on Brown v. Board of Education).
  

• Affirmative Action in Winner-Take-All Markets (with Glenn C. Loury) Journal of Economic Inequality, December 2005
  

• Affirmative Action and Its Mythology (with G. Loury). The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2005.
  

• An Economic Analysis of 'Acting White' (with D. Austen-Smith). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005.
  

• Experience-Based Discrimination: Classroom Games (with J. Goeree and C. Holt). The Journal of Economic Education, Spring 2005.
  

• The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names (with S. Levitt). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2004.
  A one page summary in Business Week magazine
  

• Falling Behind (with S. Levitt). Education Next, August 2004.

• Understanding The Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School (with S. Levitt). The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2004.
• An abridged version reprinted as Losing Ground at School in Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap.

Working Papers