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.

  • Link to IZA DP No. 10439.

  • Link to replication files.

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)