Working Papers

Working Papers

  1. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms” (2024). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper (with S. Mullainathan and A. Rambachan)
  2. “Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation” (2023). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper (with S. Mullainathan)
  3. “Automating Automaticity: How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias” (2023). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper (with A. Agan, D. Davenport, and S. Mullainathan)
  4. “Policing and Management” (2022). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper (with M. Kapustin and T. Neumann)
  5. “Scope Challenges to Social Impact” (2021). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper (with M. Bhatt, J. Guryan, and A.K. Shah)
  6. “Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents” (2021). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper (with J. Guryan, M. Bhatt, P. Cook, J.M.V. Davis, K. Dodge, G. Farkas, R.G. Fryer Jr., S. Mayer, H. Pollack, and L. Steinberg)
  7. “Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms” (2019). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper (with J. Kleinberg, S. Mullainathan, and C.R. Sunstein)
  8. “The Economics of Scale-Up” (2017). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper. (with J.M.V. Davis, J. Guryan, and K. Hallberg)
  9. “Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago” (2015). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper. (with S.B. Heller, A.K. Shah, J. Guryan,  S. Mullainathan and H.A. Pollack)
  10. “Low-Income Housing Policy” (2015). Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper. (with R. Collinson and I.G. Ellen)
  11. “Housing and neighborhoods and a new national household panel” (submitted) (with L. Quillian)
  12. “An experimental evaluation of a comprehensive employment-oriented prisoner re-entry program” (under revision) (with P.J. Cook, K. Songman, A. Braga, M O’Brien)
  13. “The (surprising) efficacy of academic and behavioral intervention with disadvantaged youth: Results from a randomized experiment in Chicago.” Cambridge, MA: NBER Working Paper. (with P.J. Cook, K. A. Dodge, G. Farkas, R.G. Freyer, J. Guryan, S.E. Mayer, H. A. Pollack, and L. Steinberg)
  14. “The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime” University of Chicago. (Working Paper) (with D. Weiner and B. Lutz)
  15. “Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from a Housing-Voucher Lottery in Chicago” (with B. Jacob, G. Duncan, J. Rosenbaum, and M. Johnson)
  16. “Can Non-Experimental Estimators Replicate Experimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects” (with B. Jacob and J. Smith)