Research

Working Papers/Works In Progress

Do Firms Value Court Enforcement of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach (with Takuya Hiraiwa and Evan Starr) 

Revise and resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics

• Winner, Best Proposal Award for Rigor in Research, Strategic Management Society (Competitive Strategy IG)

• Select Media Coverage: Slate

The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility (with Matthew Johnson and Kurt Lavetti) 

NBER Working Paper #31929

Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

• Select Media Coverage: The Washington Post

Innovation and The Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements: Evidence from State Law Changes (with Matthew Johnson and Alison Pei)

NBER Working Paper #31487

Under review

• Select Media Coverage: The Business Journals

Noncompete Agreements and Labor Market Dynamics

Effortless Employee Retention: The Impact of Noncompete Agreements on Productivity

Published & Accepted

Noncompete Agreements and the Welfare of Consumers (with Mark Tremblay) 

Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Economics at the FTC: Spatial Demand, Veterinary Hospital Mergers, Rulemaking, and Noncompete Agreements (with Abigail Ferguson, Nellie Lew, and Devesh Raval)

Review of Industrial Organization

Low Wage Workers and the Enforceability of Non-compete Agreements (with Evan Starr) 

Management Science

• • Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2020

  • Finalist, Best Paper Award for Academy of Management Careers Division

  • Select Media Coverage: NY Times, Washington Post

Why Are Low-Wage Workers Signing Noncompete Agreements? (with Matthew Johnson) 

Journal of Human Resources

• Select Media Coverage: NYTimes, Bloomberg/Washington Post 

quantreg.nonpar: An R Package for Performing Nonparametric Series Quantile Regression (With Alexandre Belloni, Victor Chernozhukov, and Iván Fernández-Val) 

The R Journal [Download quantreg.nonpar]

External Grants

Presidential Grant from The Russell Sage Foundation & The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator)

older medical journal publications

Economic costs of chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia among patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in European and Australian clinical practice (With Weycker D, Danel A, Marciniak A, Bendall K, Pettengell R) 

BMC Cancer

Cost-effectiveness of letrozole vs. anastrozole in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive early stage breast cancer (with Delea T and Guo A) 

Current Medical Research and Opinion