New draft! We combine U.S. foster care data with a dynamic matching model to study adoption. We uncover unintended consequences of adoption penalties: they disadvantage children with greater care needs and may discourage even high-quality foster matches from adoption. See the joint work with Diana MacDonald "A Dynamic Search and Matching Model of Foster Care: Theory and Evidence."

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Newer draft! I study whether governments should compensate those who do not adapt to a welfare-improving reform or subsidize those who do. I characterize when each policy better preserves the gains from reform and show that politically feasible compensation is always a Pareto improvement and generates unanimous weak support. See "Compensation or Subsidy? Welfare and Political Support for Reform."

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