Research

Publications:

1. "Ethnic Assortative Matching in Marriage and Family Outcomes: Evidence from the Mass Migration to the United States during 1900-1930,"

Journal of Population Economics, vol.29(3), 2016, pp.817-848.

2. "From A Treatise on Money to the General Theory: John Maynard Keynes’ Departure from the Doctrine of Forced Saving," History of Political Economy, vol.48(3), 2016, pp.515-544.

3. "Credible Commitments and Marriage: When the Homemaker Gets Her Share at Divorce," Journal of Demographic Economics, vol.82(3), 2016, pp.241-279.

Working Papers:

1. The Quantity, Quality and Timing Adjustment of Births when Having More is Disincentivized: the Effect of the TANF Family Cap on Fertility and Birth Weight

2. When Ethnic Roots Blend: the Family and Market Outcomes of Second Generation from Intermarried Immigrant Households

3. But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage (with Elaina Rose)

4.Family Structure and Labor Supply of Mothers in Societies with Son Preference: Evidence from Hong Kong

5.Does Stricter Child Support Enforcement Create More Criminal Dads? A Study of the Effect of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Crimes

Work in Progress:

1. A Household Saving Model under Positive Assortative Matching in the Marriage Market with Uncertainty in Match Quality