Research
Recent Publications and Accepted Papers
Structural Change and Internal Labor Migration: Evidence from the Great Depression (with Laurence Wilse-Samson), Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment (with Arindrajit Dube, Lucas Goodman, and Ethan Kaplan), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2021.
The Effects of Tip Recommendations on Customer Tipping, Satisfaction, Retention, and Spending (with Damon Alexander and Michael Lynn), Management Science, January 2021.
Link to data set and replication files.
The Political Economy of Discretionary Spending: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (with Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2014, pp. 375-428.
Link to replication files (zip).
Working Papers
Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar's vanilla boom on household well-being (with Heidi Kaila and David Sahn) NEW!
Ground-Level Ozone and Corn Yields in the United States (with Wolfram Schlenker and Juha Siikamäki)