Entrepreneurial Rates of Return and Wealth Inequality
with Zach Mahone, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2025, Vol. 58. Previously circulated as "Entrepreneurship, Housing and Wealth". Published version.
Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13(3), 2021, 1-36. Published version.
Winner of the 2022 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award.
Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers
with Alexander Bick and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 121(4), 2019, 1381-1416.
Online Appendix, Data, VoxEU column; Selected media coverage: Bloomberg, Quartz, Deutsche Welle, Spiegel Online, Hamburger Abendblattwith Alexander Bick, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, and Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz, Journal of International Economics, 118, May 2019, 44-62.
Online Appendix, VoxEU columnData Revisions of Aggregate Hours Worked Series: Implications for the Europe-US Hours Gap
with Alexander Bick and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, First Quarter 2019, 101(1), 45-56,
Online AppendixOwnership Changes and Firm Dynamics (reject & resubmit at the Journal of Monetary Economics)
with Zach Mahone and Thomas Palmer, this version: March 2025. Previously circulated as "Firm Sales and the Firm Life Cycle".
Business and Owner Contributions to TFP
with Zach Mahone and Chris Muris, this version: May 2024.
Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Increasing Taxes for Top Income Earners
with Jinhyuk Yoo, this version: June 2015
Redlining and the Racial Wealth Gap: A Quantitative Assessment with Zach Mahone