Card, D., Clark, L., Domnisoru, C., & Taylor, L. (2025). School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940. Journal of Public Economics, 252.
Yoo, P., Domina, T., McEachin, A., Clark, L., Hertenstein, H., & Penner, A. (2025). Virtual charter students have worse labor market outcomes as young adults. Social Science Research, 132.
Spiegel, M., Clark, L., Domina, T., Penner, E. K., Hanselman, P., Yoo, P. Y., & Penner, A. (2025). Peer income exposure across the income distribution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(7).
Spiegel, M., Clark, L. R., Domina, T., Radsky, V., Yoo, P. Y., & Penner, A. (2025). Measuring school economic disadvantage. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 47(2), 413–435.
Domina, T., Clark, L., Radsky, V., & Bhaskar, R. (2024). There is such a thing as a free lunch: School meals, stigma, and student discipline. American Educational Research Journal, 61(2), 287–327.
Spiegel, M., Clark, L. R., Domina, T., Radsky, V., & Penner, A. (2024). Measuring economic disadvantage in schools in the post-CEP era. In What Comes After Lunch? Alternative Measures of Economic and Social Disadvantage and Their Implications for Education Research (pp. 25–51).
Ainsworth, N., Cleveland, C., Clark, L., Hibel, J., Brummet, Q., Saultz, A., Penner, E., Spiegel, M., Yoo, P., Cristancho, J. C., & Hanselman, P. (2025). School-based disability identification varies by student family income. Census Working Paper CES-25-74.
Ainsworth, N., Ainsworth, A., Cleveland, C., Clark, L., Brummet, Q., Penner, E., Hibel, J., Saultz, A., Spiegel, M., Hanselman, P., & Penner, A. (2025). Gifted identification across the distribution of family income. Census Working Paper CES-25-73.
Clark, L., & Bhaskar, R. (2025). Potential bias when using administrative data to measure the family income of school-aged children. Census Working Paper CES-25-03.
Clark, L. (2024). The differential sorting of disadvantaged students in the competitive K-12 market. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-1111.
Clark, L., Cole, A., Eng, A., Meiselman, B., Pharris-Ciurej, N., Pierce, K., & Voorheis, J. (2023). The demographics of the recipients of the first Economic Impact Payment. Census Working Paper CES-23-24. [America Counts story]
Akee, R., & Clark, L. (2023). Universal preschool lottery admissions and its effects on long-run earnings and outcomes. Census Working Paper CES-23-09. Also circulated as NBER Working Paper No. 32570 (2024).
Clark, L. (2019). Disadvantage beyond poverty: Adverse childhood experiences, school choice, and educational outcomes. Dissertation chapter.
Clark, L. (2019). An intervention to reduce chronic absenteeism. Dissertation chapter.
Clark, L. (2019). Persistent and wide-ranging differences in the income and racial segregation of children. Dissertation chapter.
SNAP Benefit Cycles and Student Discipline, with Liliane Nienstedt
From Better Neighborhoods to Better Futures: Tax Credits and Intergenerational Opportunity with Jacob Bastian
Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and the Relationship between Educational Attainment and Childhood Family Income, with Jennifer Ortman, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, and John Voorheis
Local Variation in the Intergenerational Transmission of Income, with Dan Black, Seth Sanders, Lynne Schofield, and Lowell Taylor