I'm a labor economist working on a variety of topics. Most recently I've been studying employment in healthcare settings like nursing facilities and human capital investment in college.
Work in Progress
"Enrolling in Bad Times: College Persistence and Labor Market Outcomes" (with Alena Bičáková, Guido Matias Cortes, Kelly Foley, and Jacopo Mazza)
Staff Shortages at U.S. Nursing Facilities
Refereed Publications
"The Impact of Recent State and Municipal Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment" Journal of Labor Research, November 2022, 43: 345-368 (with Jennifer M. Mellor)
"The Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing" American Journal of Health Economics, fall 2020, 6(4): 411-443 (with Daifeng He and Jennifer M. Mellor)
“Do Financial Incentives Matter? Effects of Medicare Price Shocks on Skilled Nursing Facility Care” Health Economics, June 2020, 29(6): 655-670 (with Daifeng He and Jennifer M. Mellor)
“Import Competition and Internal Migration” Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2019, 101(1): 44-59. (with Andrew Greenland and John Lopresti)
"Medicare Hospital Payment Adjustments and Nursing Wages" International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2018, 18(2): 169-196. (with Jennifer M. Mellor)
"Does Formal Employment Reduce Informal Caregiving?" Health Economics, 2016, 25: 829-843. (with Daifeng He)
"Estimating Hispanic-White Wage Gaps among Women: The Importance of Controlling for Cost of Living" Journal of Labor Research, September 2015, 36(3): 249-273. (with Melissa McInerney)
"A Quality-Preserving Increase in Four-Year College Attendance: Evidence from NLS-72 and ELS:2002" Journal of Human Capital, Fall 2015, 9(3): 265-297. (with Bob Archibald and David Feldman)
"Does Low Wealth Constrain Long-Distance Migration?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 2015, 68(1): 79-119.
"Immigration and the Human Capital of Natives," Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2015, 50(1): 35-71.
"The Importance of Cost of Living and Education in Estimates of the Conditional Wage Gap Between Black and White Women," Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2014, 49(3): 695-722. (with Melissa McInerney)
"The Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms," Journal of Regional Science, March 2014, 54(2): 215-248.
"The Relationship between Schooling and Migration: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws," Economics of Education Review, August 2013, Volume 35: 24-40.
"The Effect of School Inputs on Labor Market Returns that Account for Selective Migration," Economics of Education Review, February 2011, 30(1): 39-54.
"The Economic Impact of Colleges and Universities," Economics of Education Review, October 2007, 26(5): 546-558. (with John Siegfried and Allen Sanderson)