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University of California, Berkeley
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CV, Teaching and Advising

• CV
• Teaching and Advising

Courses

• Econ C142, Applied Econometrics and Public Policy
• Econ 244, Applied Econometrics

Some Recent Publications

• The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions That Use Test Scores to Rank Schools, with Patrick McEwan and Miguel Urquiola, American Economic Review, September 2005, 1237-1258. With Appendix Results, and Earlier Draft.
• The Costs of Low Birth Weight, with Douglas Almond and David Lee, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2005, 1031-1083. And Earlier Draft.
• Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market, with Michael Greenstone, Journal of Political Economy, April 2005, 376-424. And Earlier Draft.
• The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession, with Michael Greenstone, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2003, 1121-1167.
• Semiparametric Censored Regression Models, with James Powell, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2001, 29-42. And programs.

Some Working Papers

• Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970, with Michael Greenstone.
• Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in Mississippi, with Douglas Almond and Michael Greenstone.
• Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Binary Response Panel Data Models: Empirical Evidence Using Alternative Approaches, with Dean Hyslop.
• A Non-Experimental Analysis of True State Dependence in Monthly Welfare Participation Sequences, with Hilary Hoynes and Dean Hyslop.