Publications

    Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment
        American Economic Review, Volume 92, Number 4, September 2002
           Data available at: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/replications/mccrary/index.html

    The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police
        American Economic Review, Volume 97, Number 1, March 2007

    Manipulation of the Running Variable in the Regression Discontinuity Design: A Density Test
        Journal of Econometrics, Volume 142 , Issue 2, February 2008
        Stata code is here

    Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Estimate
    the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy (with Julian di Giovanni and Till von Wachter)
        Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 91, Number 2, May 2009

    The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health:
    Evidence from School Entry Laws Using Exact Date of Birth (with Heather Royer)
        Forthcoming, American Economic Review
        Programs are available here, but we are not free to disseminate the data.

    Dynamic Perspectives on Crime
        Forthcoming in 2010, Handbook of Economics of Crime, Chapter 4

Working Papers

    New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of
    Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators
        (with Matias Busso and John DiNardo)
        Revise and resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics

    Finite Sample Properties of Semiparametric Estimators
    of Average Treatment Effects (with Matias Busso and John DiNardo)
        Revise and resubmit, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

    The Deterrence Effect of Prison: Dynamic Theory and Evidence (with David S. Lee)
        A previous version of this paper circulated as
        Crime, Punishment, and Myopia, NBER Working Paper 11491
        Under submission

    Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid (with Murray Leibbrandt and Jim Levinsohn)
        Also available as NBER Working Paper 11384
        Under submission
        Programs are available here, but we are not free to disseminate the data.

    Constructive Proposals for Dealing With Attrition (with John DiNardo and Lisa Sanbonmatsu)


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 School of Law                     
 University of California, Berkeley                     
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