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Educational Background

B.A. Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching Interests

• Microeconomic Theory, Labor Economics

Research Interests

• Crime and the Criminal Justice System
• Race and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market

Selected Professional Activities

• Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center (at the University of Michigan)
• Research Fellow, IZA--Institute for Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany)
• Co-editor, economics (e-journal)

Selected Research and Publications

• "Beauty vs. Earnings: Gender Differences in Human Capital, Earnings, and Priorities Over Spousal Characteristics in a Matching Model," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 69: 248-259.
• “Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floors? Statistical Discrimination in a Dynamic Model of Promotion and Hiring,” The Economic Journal 118(July): 961-982 (2008).
• “On the Role of Plea Bargaining and the Distribution of Sentences in the Absence of Judicial System Frictions.” International Review of Law and Economics 28(1): 1-7 (2008).
• “Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer: The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain,” American Law and Economics Review 92(2): 305-329 (2007).
• “Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality,” (joint with Seungjin Han) Journal of Public Economics 91(5-6): 1135-1150 (2007).
• “Racial Profiling, Statistical Discrimination, and the Effect of a Colorblind Policy on the Crime Rate,” Journal of Public Economic Theory 9(3): 543-567 (2007).
• “The Differing Nature of Black-White Wage Inequality Across Occupational Sectors.” Journal of Human Resources 42(2): 398-434 (2007).
• “Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation and Household Economic Resources,” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23(1): 23-39 (2007).
• “Making the Crime Fit the Penalty: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion Under Mandatory Minimum Sentencing.” Journal of Law and Economics 48(2): 591-627 (2005).
• “How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?” Journal of Quantitative Criminology (forthcoming).
• "Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty," Working Paper.
• "Re-examining the long-term consequences of dropping out of high school," Working Paper.