Research

Working Papers:

"The Labor Market Consequences of Competing and Non-Competing High-Skill Immigrants: Evidence from College Major" with William Sander (March 2024 Draft).  

Refereed Publications:

1. "Occupational Licensing and the Healthcare Labor Market" with Marcus Dillender, Anthony Lo Sasso, and Michael Richards (July 2023 Draft).  NBER Working Paper No. 29665. Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.

2. "The Evolution of Technological Substituion in Low-Wage Labor Markets" with Daniel Aaronson.  Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.   (Link) (March 2022 Draft) Media Coverage: Brookings Institution

3. "Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure" with Robert A. Moffitt and Anne E. Winkler, NBER Working Paper No. 21257 (Link), Journal of Human Resources, January 2020, 55(1): 1-42 (lead article). (Link) (February 2018 Draft)

4. "Hedonic-Based Labor Supply Substitution and the Ripple Effect of Minimum Wages,"  Journal of Labor Economics, July 2019, 37(3): 905-948. (Link) (February 2018 Draft) 

5. "Wage Shocks and the Technological Substitution of Low-Wage Jobs" with Daniel Aaronson ,The Economic Journal, January 2019, 129(617): 1-34 (lead article). (Link) (May 2017 Draft)  Media Coverage: Marketplace, Reuters, Los Angeles Daily News, LSE Business Review, OUP Blog

6. "Returns to College Major across Large Metropolitan Areas" with William Sander, Journal of Regional Science, November 2017, 57(5): 781-813. (Link) (October 2016 Draft) 

7. "The Long-Run Effect of Job Displacement on Sources of Health Insurance Coverage" with Nicholas A. Jolly, Journal of Labor Research, June 2017, 38(2): 187-205. (Link) (February 2017 Draft)

8. "Job Displacement's Long-Run Effect on Access to  Health Insurance and other Employer-Provided Benefits" with Nicholas A. Jolly, Economics Letters, 130 (2015): 100-104. (Link) (March 2015 Draft)

Other Publications:

1. "Does Automation Always Lead to a Decline in Low-Wage Jobs?" with Daniel Aaronson, Chicago Fed Letter , No. 413, 2019. (Link) 

Older Working Papers/Works In Progress:

"Reexamining the Ripple Effect of Minimum Wages"

"Systematic and Idiosyncratic Heterogeneity in the Cost of Worker Displacement" (October 2016 Draft)

"Task Mismatch and the Reemployment of Displaced Workers" (January 2013 Draft)