We have received an R&R on our Pakistan schools paper [pprs_sept_2018] at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
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Status Change: Part D Paper Accepted at the Journal of Political Economy
My paper with Francesco Decarolis and Maria Polyakova is forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy.
New Version of Moment Forests Paper Posted
A revised and updated version of my paper with Denis Nekipelov and Paul Novosad, “Moment Forests,” is now available. See here.
New Version of Pakistan School Paper Posted
An updated version of “Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan” has been posted here.
New Version of Part D Paper Posted

After a two-year revision, we have posted a new version of our paper, “Subsidy Design in Privately-Provided Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Part D.” This paper was formerly titled “The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Regulations in Medicare Part D.” The two major changes in this version are the use of microdata and the inclusion of […]
New Version of Moment Forests posted

Please find a new version of my paper, “Moment Forests” (formerly “Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models”), joint with Sam Asher, Denis Nekipelov, and Paul Novosad, located here: Moment Forests. We have submitted the paper for review.
NBER Working Paper W23870
Our development paper looking at the effect of entrepreneur schools in rural Pakistan is now an NBER working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23870.
Pakistani Schooling Project Working Paper Posted
A new working paper is up: “Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan.” [PDF] Abstract: This study experimentally evaluates the short-term impacts of public per-student subsidies to partnering local entrepreneurs to establish and operate tuition-free, coeducational, private primary schools in educationally underserved villages in Sindh province, Pakistan. Two subsidy structures […]
JPE Paper with Meredith Fowlie and Mar Reguant highlighted at MI
My paper on market-based regulation in the presence of market power and incomplete regulation with Meredith Fowlie and Mar Reguant (link here) is highlighted in the most recent Microeconomic Insights: http://microeconomicinsights.org/can-market-based-regulation-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-evidence-america/.
Model Selection Paper Posted
A brand new paper, “Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models,” joint with Sam Asher, Denis Nekipelov, and Paul Novosad, has been posted under Working Papers! MomentTrees.pdf
The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Incentives in Medicare Part D
We have posted a new version of our working paper, “The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Incentives in Medicare Part D,” (PDF) written jointly with Francesco Decarolis and Maria Polyakova. The new version has extensive changes to the treatment of low-income subsidy enrollees, adjustments to the MA-PD outside option as an endogenous response to changes in the […]