Programming

Publications

• Computer vision reimages rigor of APPT pain site and surface area measurement, 2021

  We digitized diagrams that adolescent patients filled-in to communicate their pain before and after surgery. A summary of our work has been published in the Journal of Pain.

• Recent Borrowing from the U.S. Discount Window: Some Cases, 2019

  The Fed's discount window makes loans to depository institutions on a regular basis. Recent publicly available transaction-level data permit a closer look at the particular circumstances under which some of those loans happened. The analysis of nine specific cases produces some general insights that can be useful in evaluating whether the discount window should be open to making loans during periods of relatively calm financial conditions.

• Raising Innovators, 2019

  In a recent article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, a group of economists characterized the factors that shape who becomes an inventor in the United States. Their findings were twofold. First, children's chances of becoming inventors vary sharply with their characteristics at birth: race, gender, and parents' income. Second, exposure to innovation during childhood affects not only who becomes an inventor, but what type of innovation he or she pursues.