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  • Journal Articles
    • Declining Violence and Improving Birth Outcomes in the US: Evidence from Birth Certificate Data

      Social Science and Medicine, 2022 (with Nicholas Mark)

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    • The EmpaTeach Intervention for Reducing Physical Violence from Teachers to Students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial

      PLoS Medicine, 2021 (with Camilla Fabbri, Katherine Rodrigues, Baptiste Leurent, Elizabeth Allen, Mary Qiu, Martin Zuakulu, Dennis Nombo, Michael Kaemingk, Alexandra De Filippo, Elizabeth Shayo, Vivien Barongo, Giulia Greco, Wietse Tol, and Karen M. Devries)

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    • Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Effect of Racial Segregation on COVID-19 Mortality

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021

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    • Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States

      Demography, 2020

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    • Do Vouchers Protect Low‐Income Households from Rising Rents?

      Eastern Economic Journal, 2020 (with Ingrid Ellen)

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    • Neighbors and Networks: The Role of Social Interactions on the Residential Choices of Housing Choice Voucher Holders

      Journal of Housing Economics, 2019 (with Ingrid Ellen and Michael Suher)

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    • Gentrification and Fair Housing: Does Gentrification Further Integration?

      Housing Policy Debate, 2019 (with Ingrid Ellen)

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    • Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Electoral Consequences of Terrorist Attacks

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 (with Laia Balcells)

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    • Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol

      Child Development, 2018 (with Jennifer Heissel, Patrick Sharkey, Kathryn Grant, and Emma Adam)

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    • Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime

      American Sociological Review, 2017 (with Patrick Sharkey and Delaram Takyar)

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    • The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility

      Journal of Urban Economics, 2017 (with Patrick Sharkey)

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  • Book Chapters
    • How Can Historic Preservation Be More Inclusive?

      Preservation and Social Inclusion, 2020 (with Ingrid Ellen and Brian McCabe)

    • A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Learning Environments and Educational Performance in Japan and the United States

      Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2015 (with Christopher Weiss and Emma Garcia)

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