Publications

Let me know what you think about my work! If you are here because you are reviewing one of my papers, please know that I am grateful for your time and feedback. I guarantee we will work out our differences.

Peer-reviewed academic articles:

• Harm reduction or amplification? The adverse impact of a supervised injection room on housing prices
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics (2023)
  • Ungated post-print
  • 7NEWS (I am famous!); The Age; news.com.au; Hit Network
  • Twitter thread
• Wage equation misrepresents gay wage discrimination: overlooked evidence from Russia
  • International Journal of Manpower (2022)
  • Ungated post-print
• Fines for illicit drug use do not prevent future crime: evidence from randomly assigned judges
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022)
  • Ungated post-print
  • Drug and Alcohol Research Connections
• Technical change and wage premiums amongst skilled labor: evidence from the economic transition
  • Economics of Transition (Open access; 2022)
  • Ungated post-print
  • EUROPP
• Changes in and correlates of Australian public attitudes toward illicit drug use
  • Drug and Alcohol Review (2021)
  • Ungated post-print
  • The Guardian
• The Australian ready-to-drink beverages tax missed its target age group
  • International Journal of Drug Policy (2021)
  • Ungated post-print
  • Austaxpolicy
  • Twitter thread
• The role of imputed rents in intergenerational income mobility in three countries
  • Journal of Housing Economics (2020)
  • Ungated post-print
  • VoxEU.org; UTS News; Austaxpolicy
  • Twitter thread (got viral-ish)

Other writing:

• Western sanctions are only strengthening Putin’s grip on power (2022)
• Доказательная государственная политика: опыт Австралии (2021)
• Australia’s Current Alcohol Tax System Impedes Public Health Policy (2021)
• Covid-19 and Australia’s Housing Crisis: How the Intergenerational Impact Can Go Undetected (2021)
• Comparing the effects of homeownership on intergenerational income mobility in the US, Germany, and Australia  (2019)
• Умом пощупать то, что глазами не увидеть  (2017)

Articles under review:

• On non-robustness of income polarization measures to housing cycles (under review at JEBO)
  • Presentation
• A closer look at the impact of the Australian heroin shortage on crime (under review at JPAM)
• Robust estimates of intergenerational transmission of drinking (under review at Economica)

Articles in progress:

• Does avoiding a criminal record reduce the likelihood of further offending? (with Weatherburn)
• Opportunity as replacement therapy (with Mason)
• A Liquor License Density and Alcohol-related Crimes in NSW (with McGinn and Weatherburn)
• Missing checks in Doleac and Mukherjee (2022)
• ENCORE

Grants:

• Health Consequence of Incarceration in Australia (A-SOCIAL)

Shelved work for the future:

• Preliminary Evaluation of the NSW Government’s Bump It Up Program
• An auction-theoretical model of grade inflation
• Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of interviewers within the examiner design to identify the effects of stigmatized behavior in non-experimental settings 
• Male sexual orientation does not affect health, substance dependence, and earnings: evidence from randomly assigned interviewers
• Cannabis use worsens the gender pay gap
• Income gender disparity and decline in drinking
• Quantifying Russian gays with census
• Democracy does improve human capital

Research ideas