Jessica LaVoice
Publications
The Long-Run Implications of Slum Clearance: A Neighborhood Analysis (Accepted at the Journal of Public Economics)
Racial Disparities in Debt Collection, with Domonkos Vamossy (Accepted at the Journal of Banking and Finance)
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals' Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s, with Price Fishback, Allison Shertzer, and Randall P. Walsh. The Journal of Economic History. 83.4 (2023): 1019-1056.
-Featured in The New York Times
Matching Pell Grants: Implications for College Debt and Parental Transfers, with Patricia Beeson, Daniele Coen-Pirani and Marla Ripoll. American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings. 113 (2023): 524-529. (Online Appendix)
The Effect of "Failed" Community Mental Health Centers on Non-White Mortality, with Mallory Avery. Health Economics. 32.6 (2023): 1362-1393.
-Formerly circulated as "The Mortality Effects of Community Mental Health Centers"
Essays about Race, Discrimination, and Inequality, The Journal of Economic History. 81.2 (2021): 577–614.
-Non-peer reviewed dissertation summary
Working Papers
The Effect of Targeted Substance Use Treatment Programs on Infant Health, with Emma Bomfim (former Bowdoin undergraduate student)
Works in Progress
The Short and Long Run Effects of Black Strikebreakers on Racial Inequalities, with Ethan Schmick
Hedonic Housing Index during the Great Depression, with Price Fishback and Trevor M. Kollmann
Racial Factors in the Allocation of Interstate Highways, 1950-1980, with Jeffrey Lin