Research

Publications

The effect of shortening high school duration by one year on student outcomes: Evidence from Ghana” (with Samuel Asare and Bernardin Senadza), forthcoming at The World Bank Economic Review

Jones, J. W., Courtemanche, C. J., Denteh, A., Marton, J., & Tchernis, R. (2022). “Do State SNAP Policies Influence Program Participation among Seniors?Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy

Button P., Collins L., Denteh A., Harrell B., Isaac E., Garcia-Perez M., and Ziedan E. (2021). “Teaching Controversial and Contemporary Topics in Economics using a Jigsaw Literature Review Activity.” The Journal of Economic Education

Courtemanche, C., Denteh, A., and Tchernis, R. (2019). “Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation.” Southern Economic Journal.

Nguimkeu, P., Denteh, A., and Tchernis, R. (2019). “On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting.” Journal of Econometrics.

Denteh, A., Millimet, D. L., and Tchernis, R. (2019). “The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence.” Empirical Economics.

Working Papers

“The Intergenerational Effect of the Food Stamp Program on Marriage and Fertility” (with Nicardo McInnis), Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Population Economics

Misclassification in Difference-in-differences Models” (with Désiré Kédagni)

“Who Increases Emergency Department Use? New Insights from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment” (with Helge Liebert), Revise and Resubmit at Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A

“Teacher Coaching, Educational Triage, and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Mathematics Intervention in Jamaica” (with Patrice Anderson and Nicholas Wright)

“The Effect of SNAP on Obesity in the Presence of Endogenous Misreporting”

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

“Anticipation Effects in Difference-in-Differences Models” (with Zhengrun Chen and Désiré Kédagni)

“On the Estimation of Program Participation with Incomplete Validation” (with Pierre Nguimkeu)

“Misreporting of Program Participation and its Consequences for the Estimates of SNAP’s Effects on Food Insecurity” (with Farah Khan)

“Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Heterogeneous Impacts of Medicaid Managed Care” (with Timothy Layton, Jacob Wallace, and Sherri Rose)

“Immigration Enforcement and Child Health” (with Makayla Lavender and Prithvijit Mukherjee)