• What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Newspapers. (with Matthew Gentzkow)
  Econometrica, forthcoming. [pdf]

• Thin-slice forecasts of gubernatorial elections. (with Daniel Benjamin)
  Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2009 (forthcoming). [pdf]

• Competition and truth in the market for news. (with Matthew Gentzkow)
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2008. [pdf] Copyright 2008, American Economic Association.

• Preschool television viewing and adolescent test scores: Historical evidence from the Coleman study. (with Matthew Gentzkow)
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2008. [pdf] [appendix]Link to published version here.
  

• Do harsher prison conditions reduce recidivism? A discontinuity-based approach. (with Keith Chen)
  American Law and Economics Review, Spring 2007. [pdf] Link to published version here. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

• Media bias and reputation. (with Matthew Gentzkow)
  Journal of Political Economy, April 2006. [pdf] Copyright 2006, University of Chicago Press.  Supplemental appendix [pdf].
  

• Strategic extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats divide on religious values. (with Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto) Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2005. [pdf] Copyright 2005, MIT Press.
  

• Smart cities: Quality of life, productivity, and the growth effects of human capital.
  Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2006. [pdf] Copyright 2006, MIT Press.
  

• Is there a daily discount rate? Evidence from the food stamp nutrition cycle.
  Journal of Public Economics, February 2005. [pdf] Link to published version here.
  

• Media, education, and anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. (with Matthew Gentzkow)
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2004. [pdf] Copyright 2004, American Economic Association.

• Why have Americans become more obese? (with David Cutler and Edward Glaeser)
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2003. [pdf] Copyright 2003, American Economic Association.

• The benefits of the home mortgage interest deduction. (with Edward Glaeser)
  Tax Policy and the Economy, August 2003. HIER Working Paper #1979

• Urban growth in the 1990s: Is city living back? (with Edward Glaeser)
  Journal of Regional Science, February 2003. HIER Working Paper #1925 Link to published version here.

• Cities and warfare: The impact of terrorism on urban form (with Edward Glaeser)
  Journal of Urban Economics, March 2002. HIER Working Paper #1942 Link to published version here.

Older Working Papers

• Who is "behavioral"? Cognitive ability and anomalous preferences. (with Daniel Benjamin and Sebastian Brown)
  Draft, May 2006. [pdf] [appendix]