BOOK

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Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education. Forthcoming with Princeton University Press.

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PUBLICATIONS

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The Historical Political Economy of Education. 2022. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, edited by Jeffery Jenkins and Jared Rubin. (pdf) (html)

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Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building. 2022. American Political Science Review 116(4): 1242-1257.  (pdf) (html) (appendix) 

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- APSA Heinz I. Eulau Award for the best article published in the APSR in 2022

- Fiona McGillivray Award for the best Political Economy paper, APSA 2018

- Formerly titled "Civil Conflict, State Consolidation, and the Spread of Mass Education"

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The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years. 2021. American Political Science Review 115(1): 179-198. (pdf) (html including Annotations for Transparent Inquiry) (appendix) 

  

- APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section's Best Article Award

- Michael Wallerstein Award for best Political Economy article 

- Mary Parker Follett Award for best Politics and History article 

- Best Comparative Policy Paper Award, APSA 2019  

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Public-Sector Unions and the Size of Government. 2019. American Journal of Political Science 63(1): 21-36. (pdf)

   

- Dorothy Day Award for best labor politics paper, APSA 2016

- APPAM 2013 exemplary research on the politics of policymaking

- Media coverage: Washington Post, The Economist, POLITICO, NBC News, ABC WJLA, Education Week, Governing Magazine, Bloomberg

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We Have History - and How it Changed Me. 2019. In Eugene Finkel, Adria Lawrence, and Andrew Mertha, eds. CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association 29(2): 18-25. (pdf)

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Understanding Human Resources in Broad-Access Higher Education (with Susanna Loeb and Eric Taylor). 2014. In Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education, edited by Mitchell Stevens and Michael Kirst. Stanford University Press.

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The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce from 1990 through 2010: Changing Dynamics and Persistent Concerns (with Daphna Bassok, Susanna Loeb, and Maria Fitzpatrick). 2013. Education Finance and Policy 8(4): 581-601.

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WORKING PAPERS

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Democracy and the Politicization of Education (with Anja Neundorf and Wooseok Kim). (pdf)

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Latin America's Education Systems in Comparative Perspective, 1945-2021: Patterns and Puzzles (with Katy Norris). Chapter prepared for Skills and Values: The Political Economy of Education in Latin America, edited by Juan Bogliaccini and Aldo Madariaga. Under review. 

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Education to Empower or Control? School Textbooks in the U.S. after the Civil Rights Movement

 

When Does Education Promote Democracy? The Role of Curriculum Reforms in Mexico (with Francisco Garfias) 

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The Political Economy of National School Curricula: Evidence from Argentina and Chile, 1860-1970 (with Jennifer Guevara and Camila Pérez Navarro) (pdf)

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Is Universal Preschool More Resilient to Budget Cuts than Targeted? Evidence from the Great Recession (with Erica Greenberg and Sam Williams) (new draft coming soon)

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Durable Goods for Enduring Voters? Evidence from a School Construction Program in Argentina (pdf)

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Teacher Unions and Education Reform in Argentina (pdf)

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How Data Collection Methods Affect Inferences (with Adrian del Rio, Wooseok Kim, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Eugenia Nazrullaeva, and Anja Neundorf)

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WORK IN PROGRESS

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Teacher Unions Around the World (with Justin Sandefur and Susannah Hares)​

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Political Determinants of Education Quality (based on the  Historical Education Quality Database) 

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Education and the State in Comparative Perspective (chapter commissioned by the Annual Review of Political Science)

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