Publications

• "Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees" (with Justin Wolfers), forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics. [Executive Summary] [Additional Materials] [media links] [data and do files]
• "Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements" (with Kasey Buckles and Melanie Guldi), forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.
• "Tournament Incentives, League Policy, and NBA Team Performance Revisited" (with Brian Soebbing, David Berri, and Brad Humphreys), forthcoming, Journal of Sports Economics.
• "Patient Education and the Response to New Medical Research" (with Kosali Simon), 2009, Journal of Health Economics.
• "The Time Use of Teenagers" (with Vanessa Wight, Suzanne Bianchi, and Bijou Hunt), 2009, Social Science Research.
• "Parent-Child Quality Time: Does Birth Order Matter?", 2008, Journal of Human Resources. [media links] [data and do files]
• "Gender Differences in the Response to Competition", 2008, Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
• "Racial Bias in the NBA: Implications in Betting Markets" (with Tim Larsen and Justin Wolfers), 2008, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports [data and do files].
• "Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education" (with Ron Ehrenberg, George Jakubson, Jeff Groen, and Eric So), 2007, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Working Papers

• "Pay-to-Bid Auctions" (with Brennan Platt and Henry Tappen)
• "Interracial Workplace Cooperation: Evidence from the NBA" (with Lars Lefgren and Henry Tappen)
• "The Gender Gap Cracks Under Pressure: A Detailed Look at Male and Female Performance Differences During Competitions" (with Chris Cotton and Frank McIntyre)
• "The Effect of Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation"
• "Educational Gaps in Medical Care and Health Behavior: Evidence from Natality Data" (with Josh Price and Kosali Simon)
• "Made in America (By Immigrants): How Protectionism Spurs Immigration" (with Tim Larsen and Val Lambson)
• "Using Incentives to Encourage Healthy Eating in Children" (with David Just)
• "Pornography, Religion, and Happiness: Does Pornography Affect the Actively Religious Differently" (with Rich Patterson)
• "Movies and Marriage: Do some Films Harm Marital Happiness?" (with Kirk Doran)
• "Biased Referees?: Reconciling Results with the NBA’s Analysis" (with Justin Wolfers)
• "Sub-game Perfect: Profitable Biases of NBA Referees" (with Marc Remer and Dan Stone) [media]
• "Performance Under Pressure in the NBA" (with Zheng Cao and Dan Stone)
• "The Influence of FDA Advisory Information and Black Box Warnings on Consumer Use of Prescription Antidepressants" (with Kristy Parkinson, Kosali Simon, and Sharon Tennyson)

Work in Progress

• "Racial Bias in US Elections" (with Kerwin Charles, Jon Guryan, and Kyung Park)
• "Marriage and Infant Outcomes" (with Kasey Buckles)
• "Impact of Medical Research" (with Josh Price and Kosali Simon)
• "Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes" (with Lance Erickson)

My Family

My wife, Emily, and I were married in July 2000. We have five children: Joseph, Benjamin, Kaylana, Jeffrey and Corbin.

Our family enjoys hiking, camping, and reading together. Some of the books we’ve been reading together recently are Half Magic (Edward Eager) and Onion John (Joseph Krumgold).