Research

Publications

• The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families with Rossella Calvi, Denni Tommasi, and Alexander Wolf  

Journal of Development Economics, 2023

•  Online Appendix 

• Policy Articles/Media Briefings: IZA Newsroom

• Changes in Assortative Matching and Educational Inequality: Evidence from Marriage and Birth Records in Mexico, with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022

• Measuring Women's Empowerment in Collective Households with Rossella Calvi and Denni Tommasi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022

• The Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on Mexican Households: Evidence from Employment and Time Use for Men, Women, and Children with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Adan Silverio-Murillo, and Jose Roberto Balmori de la Miyar

Review of Economics of the Household, 2022

• Measuring Poverty within the Household with Caitlin Brown, Rossella Calvi, and Denni Tommasi

IZA World of Labor, 2022

• Consumption Inequality among Children: Evidence from Child Fostering in Malawi 

 Economic Journal, 2021

• Online Appendix

• Sharing the Pie: An Analysis of Undernutrition and Individual Consumption in Bangladesh with Caitlin Brown and Rossella Calvi

Journal of Public Economics, 2021

•  Online Appendix 

• Does Unilateral Divorce Impact Women's Labor Supply? Evidence from Mexico with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021

• The Impact of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Mexico with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2021

• Interim Measures in Antitrust Investigations: An Economic Discussion with Juliette Caminade and Antoine Chapsal

 Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2021

Working Papers

• The California Effect: The Challenge of Identifying the Impact of Social Policies in an Era of Social Change, with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Michael Pesko, and Hasan Shahid (Submitted)

• Are Households Pareto Efficient? A Test Based on Multiple Job Holding, with Ömer F. Sözbir (Under Review)

Selected Works in Progress

• The Multidimensional Nature of Women's Power: Measurement and Prediction, with Rossella Calvi and Sugat Chaturvedi

• Marital Stability and Consumption Sharing, with Tomoki Fujii and Xirong Lin

Older Work

Why Don’t Lower-Income Individuals Have Pensions?  with April Yanyuan Yu and Matthew S. Rutledge

Communities & Banking, Winter 2015