Research

Working Papers

• "Terms of Engagement: Migration, Dowry, and Love in Indian Marriages” with Scott Fulford and Rossella Calvi (submitted)

• "The Problem of the Common School" with Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (submitted)

Published and Forthcoming Economics Papers 

• "Activity, Contemplation, and the Shortage of Good Work" with Jason Heron Faith and Economics,  No. 81 Dec (2023)

• "Is There Adverse Selection in the U.S. Social Security System?" joint with Mathis Wagner  Economics Letters, Volume 189,  April 2020, pp. 1089-95

• "Humanae Vitae and the Economics of the Pill at 50 Years" Journal of Markets & Morality 23, no. 1 (2020): 7-25. 

• "The Paradox of the Pill: Heterogeneous Effects of Oral Contraceptive Access" with Catherine Ruth Pakaluk  Economic Inquiry, Vol 57 (2), April 2019, pp. 813-831.

• “Single Moms and Deadbeat Dads: The Role of Earnings, Marriage Market Conditions, and Preference Heterogeneity” with Geoff Sanzenbacher, Shannon Seitz, and Meghan Skira International Economic Review, 59(1) 191-232 (February 2018)

• “Terms of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model of Sex and Matching” with Peter Arcidiacono and Marjorie McElroy.  Quantitative Economics, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (March 2016). Also circulated as NBER Working paper #16517 

  • Press: Slate.com

• “Abortion Costs, Separation, and Non-marital Childbearing” Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Volume 37, Issue 2, pp 182-196  (June 2016)

  • Press: Boston Globe

• “Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and the U.S. Abortion Market” International Economic Review, 56(3) 963-996 (August 2015)

• “Isolating Mechanisms for the Racial Divide in Education and the Labor Market: Evidence from Interracial Families” with Peter Arcidiacono, Marie Hull and Seth Sanders. Journal of Human Capital, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 2015) , pp. 198-238

• "The Minimum Wage and Crime" with Stacey Chan, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 14(3), 1213-1235 (July 2014) 

Interdisciplinary Work

• "Immigration, Reciprocity and the Modern Economic Tradition" with Jason Heron  Journal of Catholic Social Thought  Vol. 18, No 1., Winter (2021), pp. 15-34

• "Humane Capital: A Re-examination of the Social Teachings in Light of the Shift to Human Capital"  American Journal of Economics and Sociology Vol 79, Issue 4, September (2020), pp 1209-1240

• “Economic Rights, Reciprocity, and the Modern Economic Tradition” with Jason Heron Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2019)

• “Solidarity in a Technocratic Age: Commercialization, Catholic Social Teaching, and Moral Formation” with Jason Heron Journal of Religious Ethics 47 (2), 356-376 (2019)