Published/Forthcoming Papers
- Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track? (with Zachary Szlendak) (Accepted - Journal of Human Resources)
- Quantifying Family, School and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting.’’ Joint with Mohit Agarwal and Joseph Altonji. Journal of Labor Economics - Special Issue on Youth Labor Markets (2019)
- Estimating Group Effects Using Averages of Observables to Control for Sorting On Unobservables: School and Neighborhood Effects (with Joseph Altonji) - American Economic Review (2018)
- Task-Specific Experience and Task-Specific Talent: Decomposing the Productivity of High School Teachers (with Jason Cook) - Journal of Public Economics (2016)
- Teacher Quality and Student Inequality - Journal of Labor Economics (2015)
- The Role of Family, School and Community Characteristics in Inequality in Education and Labor Market Outcomes (with Joseph Altonji), in “Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of Low-Income Children,” (2011), edited by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane. Russell Sage.
- Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings (with David Bloom, David Canning, and Michael Moore) - Journal of Monetary Economics (2007)
Working Papers
- How Local Are U.S. Labor Markets? Using an Assignment Model to Forecast the Geographic and Skill Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks (Reject and Resubmit - Economic Journal)
- What Drives the Labor Market Incidence of Trade Shocks? An Equilibrium Matching Analysis of China's WTO Accession (with Jeronimo Carballo) (Under Review)
Papers in Progress
- Establishment Mobility Within Firms (with Jeronimo Carballo and Charles Adam Pfander)
- Who Benefits from a Volatile Labor Market and How?: Exploring the
Great Resignation Using An Equilibrium Assignment Model (with Jeronimo Carballo, James Flynn and Anja Gruber) - How Are a Firm’s Labor and International Trade Activity Related? (with Jeronimo Carballo and Kassandra McLean)
- An Equilibrium-Based Decomposition of Race and Gender Gaps Over the Life-Cycle: The Relative Contributions of Promotions, Job-to-Job Transitions, and Dead-End Jobs to Earnings Inequality (with Kassandra McLean)
- The Impact of Occupational Choice on Long-Run Health (with Mark Klee)
- Estimating the Long-Run Returns to Retraining