Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile. J Popul Econ 38, 46 (2025).
A Promise Worth Keeping? Impacts of Free Community College on Degrees and Earnings (with Jonathon Attridge, Celeste K. Carruthers, and Jilleah G. Welch)
We study the rollout of Tennessee’s tuition-free community college program, Tennessee Promise, which preceded similar efforts in over twenty states as well as multiple federal proposals. Using institution-level and individual-level data, we examine how Promise affected postsecondary enrollment, educational pathways, and early adult outcomes as the program expanded from a single-county pilot to statewide eligibility. Promise increased college enrollment by 5.4 percentage points for 19 year-olds, increased associate’s degree or greater attainment by 2.9 percentage points for 21 year-olds, imprecisely increased the likelihood of bachelor's degree or greater attainment by age 24, and weakly increased individual income beginning at age 21. We estimate that the program pays for itself under reasonable assumptions about the returns to additional college credentials.
My Research Statement can be found here.