Myron Northrop Professor of Economics
Interim Senior Associate Dean of Doctoral Programs (2022-23)
Olin Business School
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
email: stephen.p.ryan(at)wustl.edu
New Version of Moment Forests Paper Posted
We have updated our Moment Forests paper: momentForests.pdf The paper is currently under review.
Paper submitted: Subsidy Targeting with Market Power
My paper with Maria Polyakova, “Subsidy Targeting with Market Power,” is finally under review. A brief synopsis of the paper appeared on Stanford’s front page: https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/entitlement-spending-waste.
Status Change: Pakistan Schooling Paper
We have received an R&R on our Pakistan schools paper [pprs_sept_2018] at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
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 […]