Research

Publications

 Economics Journals 

• Time to Grow Up? Adult Children as Determinants of Parental Labor Supply, with Olga Malkova, Journal of European Economic Association, 2024.

• The Effect of the US Safety Net on Material Hardship over Two Decades, with Signe-Mary McKernan and Caroline Ratcliffe, Journal of Public Economics, 2021.

• The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System,  with John Bound, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner, Journal of Economic Perspective, 2021.               

• The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Outcomes, with Fredric Blavin and Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Journal of Public Economics, 2020.

• Credit Where It's Due: Investigating Pathways from Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion to Maternal Mental Health, with Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Fredric Blavin, Jason Gates, Health Economics, 2020.

• Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination and University Prestige, with Paola Bordón, Economics of Education Review, 2020.

• A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students, with John Bound, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner,  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020. 

• Accounting for Homeownership in Estimating Real Income Growth, with Robert Lerman, Economics Letters, 2019.

• Earnings Dynamics: The Role of Education Throughout a Worker's Career, Labour Economics, 2018.

• Recruitment of Foreigners in the Market for Computer Scientists in the US, with John Bound, Joseph Golden, and Gaurav Khanna, Journal of Labor Economics, 2015.

• Pathways to Adjustment: The Case of Information Technology Workers, with John Bound, Joseph Golden and Sarah Turner, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013.

• Working under Pressure: Evidence from the Impact of Soccer Fans on Players’ Performance, with Diogo Guillén, Economics Letters, 2012.

• Education and the Public-Private Wage Gap in Brazil (in Portuguese), with Sergio Firpo and Gustavo Gonzaga, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, 2009.

Multidisciplinary Journals 

• The Effects of the State Utility Shutoff Moratoria on Credit Delinquencies during the Covid-19 Pandemic, with Jennifer Andre, Kassandra Martinchek, and Signe-Mary McKernan, Journal of Economics and Business, 2024.

• Impacts of COVID-19-Era Economic Policies on Consumer Debt in the United Kingdom, with Mingli Zhong, Signe-Mary McKernan, Mark Hayward, Elizabeth Millward, Christopher Trepel, Journal of Economics and Business, 2024.

• Lottery-Based Evaluations of Early Education Programs: Opportunities and Challenges for Building the Next Generation of Evidence, with Christina Weiland, Rebecca Unterman, and others, AERA Open, 2024.

• Local Conditions and Debt in Collections with  Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, Brett Theodos, John Chalekian, and Christopher Trepel,  Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2019.   

• Public Universities: The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce, with John Bound, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019.    

• First-Year Impacts on Savings and Economic Well-Being from the Assets for Independence Program Randomized Evaluation, with Gregory Mills, Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, Sara Edelstein, and Michael Pergamit, Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2019.

• Affordable Homeownership: An Evaluation of the Near-term Effects of Shared Equity Programs, with Brett Theodos, Christina Plerhoples Stacy, and Rebecca Daniels, Housing Policy Debate, 2019.

Working Papers

• The Effects of US State Consumer Protection Policies during the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Use of Alternative Financial Services Loans, with Jennifer Andre, Kassandra Martinchek, and Signe-Mary McKernan, R&R at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

• Migration Policy and the Supply of Foreign Physicians: Evidence from the Conrad 30 Waiver Program, with Gaurav Khanna and Sarah Turner, R&R at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization