Research
Working Papers:
"Subjective Uncertainty and the Marginal Propensity to Consume", 2024.
(with Davide Melcangi)
"Stimulus Through Insurance: The Marginal Propensity to Repay Debt", 2024. [R&R at Review of Economic Studies]
(with Davide Melcangi, Laura Pilossoph, and David Wiczer).
"The Curious Case of the Rise in Deflation Expectations", 2023.
(with Olivier Armantier, Jason Somerville, Giorgio Topa, Wilbert van der Klaauw and John Williams)
"Dynamic Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit", 2019.
Publications:
"Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Towards Work in the U.S." (with Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan and Basit Zafar), 2024, Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics.
"Workers' Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk " (with Wilbert van der Klaauw), 2024, Accepted at Journal of Labor Economics.
"Gasoline Price Changes and Consumer Inflation Expectations: Experimental Evidence" (with Felix Aidala, Olivier Armantier, Jason Somerville, Giorgio Topa and Wilbert van der Klaauw), 2024, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 220, April 2024, pp. 66-80.
"The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers' Expectations and Preferences for Remote Work" (with Yuting Chen, Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, and Basit Zafar), 2023, AER Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 113, May 2023, pp. 556-561.
"Expectations Data in Structural Micro Models" (with Cormac O'Dea), in Handbook of Economic Expectations, Chapter 21, pp. 647-675.
"Understanding Migration Aversion Using Elicited Choice Probabilities" (with Tyler Ransom and Wilbert van der Klaauw), Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 231, Issue 1, November 2022, pp 123-147. [CityLab coverage]
"How Economic Crises Affect Inflation Beliefs: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic" (with Olivier Armantier, Rachel Pomerantz, Daphné Skandalis, Kyle Smith, Giorgio Topa, and Wilbert van der Klaauw), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 189, September 2021, pp. 443-469.
"Flow Origins of Labor Force Participation Fluctuations" (with Mike Elsby, Bart Hobijn, Fatih Karahan, and Ayşegül Şahin), AER Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 109, May 2019, pp. 461-464.
"Trends in Cumulative Marginal Tax Rates Facing Low-Income Families, 1997-2007" (with Robert Moffitt), Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol. 31, Number 1, 2017, pp. 43-70. [Online Appendix A] [Online Appendix B]
"An Anatomy of U.S. Personal Bankruptcy Under Chapter 13" (with Hülya Eraslan, Wenli Li, and Pierre Sarte), International Economic Review, Vol. 58, Issue 3, August 2017, pp. 671-702.
Work in Progress:
"Information-Sharing Within Couples: Evidence from a Sequential Survey of Spouses" with Adeline Delavande and Basit Zafar
"In-Kind Transfers, Incomplete Take-up, and Labor Supply" with Robert Moffitt
"The Work-Leisure Trade-off: Identifying the Heterogeneity" with Ayşegül Şahin and Basit Zafar
"Evaluating the Employment and Childcare Use Effects of a Pre-Announced Welfare Reform" with Richard Blundell, Marco Francesconi, and Wilbert van der Klaauw