Articles
Assessing difference: Examining Florida’s initial teacher preparation programs and exploring alternative specifications of value-added models, Working paper (2010)
This study explores important statistical issues on the appropriate functional form and model specification of...
Searching for Efficient Enforcement: Officer Characteristics and Racially Biased Policing (with Billy R. Close), Review of Law & Economics (2008)
This study empirically investigates whether racial and ethnic differences in police searches of stopped drivers...
Searching for efficient enforcement: officer characteristics and racially biased policing (with Billy R. Close), Review of Law and Economics (2007)
This study empirically investigates whether racial and ethnic differences in police searches of stopped drivers...
After the Traffic Stops: Officer Characteristics and Enforcement Actions (with Billy R. Close), The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy (2006)
This study examines the relationship between officer characteristics and racially biased policing. In particular, we...
Intergenerational Mobility and Interracial Inequality: The Return to Family Values, Industrial Relations (2006)
This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of...
Unpublished Papers
Does teacher preparation matter? pupil academic achievement and teacher’s college preparation (2010)
This study examines whether there is differential productivity associated with teachers trained within Florida Agricultural...
Examining FAMU’s supply of teachers: a value-added analysis (2010)
Some teacher preparation institutions may provide higher quality teachers than others. Pupil academic achievement is...
Culture matters: America’s African Diaspora and labor market outcomes (2009)
This paper contrasts the explanatory power of the mono-cultural and diversity models of racial disparity....
Identity matters: inter- and intra-racial disparity and labor market outcomes (2009)
Standard econometric analysis of African American – white inequality incorporates racial classification as an exogenous...
DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LABOR AND PROPERTY INCOME AMONG NEW SENIORS AND EARLY RETIREES: BY RACE, GENDER, REGION, AND INTERTEMPORAL COHORT, 1965-2006 (2009)
The tables herein provide detailed descriptive statistics for changes in labor and property income during...