PUBLICATIONS
"Labor Market Transitions over the Business Cycle: Gender Differential in the United States from 2001 to 2020." Feminist Economics (2025).
"The long-term impact of COVID-19 on minority employment by gender." Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19 (2025). (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie)
"Racial Disparities in Unemployment during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recovery: The “Stubborn,” the “Hiccup,” and the “Stall”." Economic Inquiry (2023). (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie)
"The Implications of Optional Practical Training Reforms on International Student Enrollments and Quality." Economic Inquiry (2022). (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Kevin Shih)
“The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the US Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty.” Economic Inquiry (Best Article Award) (2022). NBER Working Paper No. 29426 (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie)
Media Coverage: New York Times
“Early Evidence of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment.” Journal of Public Economics (2020). NBER Working Paper No. 27246 (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie)
“Anywhere They Go, We Go: Immigration Inflow’s Impact on Co-Ethnic Natives.” Southern Economic Journal (2020). (with Tao Song)
"OPT Policy Changes and Foreign Born STEM Talent in the US." Labour Economics (2019). (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Delia Furtado)
"First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions." IZA Journal of Development and Migration (2018).
"Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession." Research in Labor Economics (Lead Article) (2018). (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie)
"The business cycle, labor market transitions by age, and the great recession." Applied Economics (2017). (with Kenneth Couch)
WORKING PAPERS
“Effect of Employee Ownership on Work-From-Home and Employment Response to Covid-19 Shock.” NBER Working Paper No. 33310 (with Douglas Kruse, Joseph Blasi, and Richard Freeman)
“Do Remittances Reduce Market Work and Housework? Children’s Labour Supply Responses to Weather Shocks.” (with Andres Cuadros-Meñaca)
WORK IN PROGRESS
“China’s Left-Behind Children: A New Look on the Role of Intergenerational Care.” (with Qiran Zhao)
“Student Career Choice in Information Science and Technology Field: Evidence from China.” (with Haiying Cui and Vicar Valencia)