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Papers

Under Review:

"Prescriptive Machine Learning for Public Policy: The Case of Immigration Enforcement" with D. Bertsimas, under review (2024).

"Early Detection of Opioid Over-Procurement: A Machine Learning Approach" with D. Bertsimas, major revision at M&SOM (2023).

Publications:

"Why did US urban homicide spike in 2020? A cross‐sectional data analysis for the largest American cities" with Arnold Barnett, Risk Analysis (2024).

"Can Firms Benefit from Competition?," with I. Horstmann and F. Mathewson, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 76 (2021): 102740.

"Almost Robust Discrete Optimization," with O. Baron, O. Berman, and V. Roshanaei. European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 276, No. 2 (2020): 451-465.

"Truthful Cheap Talk: Why Operational Flexibility May Lead to Truthful Communication," with O. Berman and D. Krass. Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 4 (2019): 1624–1641.

"Approximating the First-Come, First-Served Stochastic Matching Model with Ohm's Law," with E.H. Kaplan. Operations Research, Vol. 66, No. 5 (2018): 1423-1432.

"The Number of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: Estimates Based on Demographic Modeling with Data from 1990-2016," with J.S. Feinstein and E.H. Kaplan. PLOS ONE, 13.9 (2018): e0201193.

"Solving a Stochastic Facility Location/Fleet Management Problem with Logic-Based Benders' Decomposition," with O. Berman and J.C. Beck. IIE Transactions, Vol. 45, No. 8 (2013): 896-911.

"Using Logic-Based Benders Decomposition to Solve the Capacity- and Distance-Constrained Plant Location Problem," with J.C. Beck. INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2012): 387-398.

"Solving a Location-Allocation Problem with Logic-Based Benders' Decomposition," with J.C. Beck. Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (2009): 344-351, 2009.

Work in Progress:

"Recent Trends in Urban Homicide," with A. Barnett.

"Prescriptive Machine Learning for Personalized Unemployment Insurance."

"Policy Design for Immigration Enforcement: An Operational Perspective."

 

 

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