Publications

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Journal articles (hover over the title for abstract):

• Dual-edged benefits of drug policing: a quarter century’s lesson from a heroin drought
  • The Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming); Post-print
  • Twitter thread (got viral-ish)
• A closer look at Doleac and Mukherjee (2022) and the effects of naloxone access laws on opioid ER admissions
  • Economic Inquiry (2025); Post-print
  • Filter
• Transforming nursing assessment in acute hospitals: A cluster randomised controlled trial of an evidence-based nursing core assessment (the ENCORE trial)
  • International Journal of Nursing Studies (2024); Post-print
  • ANMJ; Medical Xpress; Mirage.News
• Harm reduction or amplification? The adverse impact of a supervised injection room on housing prices
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics (2023); Post-print
  • Twitter thread; 7NEWS; The Age; news.com.au; Hit Network; Cairns Post; Brisbane Times;
• Wage equation misrepresents gay wage discrimination: overlooked evidence from Russia
  • International Journal of Manpower (2022); Post-print
• Fines for illicit drug use do not prevent future crime: evidence from randomly assigned judges
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022); Post-print
  • Drug and Alcohol Research Connections
• Technical change and wage premiums amongst skilled labor: evidence from the economic transition
  • Economics of Transition (2022); Post-print
  • EUROPP
  • Slides
• Changes in and correlates of Australian public attitudes toward illicit drug use
  • Drug and Alcohol Review (2021); Post-print
  • The Guardian; Forbes
• The Australian ready-to-drink beverages tax missed its target age group
  • International Journal of Drug Policy (2021); Post-print
  • Twitter thread; Austaxpolicy
• The role of imputed rents in intergenerational income mobility in three countries
  • Journal of Housing Economics (2020); Post-print
  • Twitter thread (got viral-ish); VoxEU; UTS News; Austaxpolicy; The Conversation

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:

• Interviewers as Instruments: Estimating the Wage Penalty of Drug Use
• Cluster trials inference with CARE
  • Slides
  • Recorded talk
• On non-robustness of income polarization measures to housing cycles
  • Slides
  • Recorded talk
• Further findings on the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption
  • Slides

Articles in progress:

• Does avoiding a criminal record reduce the likelihood of further offending?
• Opportunity as replacement therapy
• A Liquor License Density and Alcohol-related Crimes in NSW
• Unexpected Health Improvements Following Imprisonment: Evidence from an Australian National Survey

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
  • Slides
• Income gender disparity and decline in drinking
• Quantifying Russian gays with census
• Democracy does improve human capital

Research ideas