Download my CV
Find me on Google scholar
Publications:
"Family Background and College Major Choice: Evidence on Major Earnings Growth" (with Margaret Leighton), Forthcoming at Education Finance & Policy
"Discrimination Against Women in Hiring" (with Adam Osman and Andrew Weaver), Economic Development and Cultural Change 73 (2), p. 781-809, January 2026
"Are Soft Skills Enough? Experimental Evidence on Skill Complementarity for College Graduates" (with Adam Osman), ILR Review 78 (4), p. 692-711, August 2025
"Opening the Black Box of College Major Choice: Evidence from an Information Intervention" (with Fulya Ersoy), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 231, March 2025
"Microfinance's Transformational Potential: Looking Beyond Average Treatment Effects" (with Ronald A. Cueva and Adam Osman), Oxford Review of Economic Policy 40 (1), p. 71-81, Spring 2024
"Student Performance in Online Health Courses", Education Economics 32 (1), p. 114-120, January 2024.
"Stigma and Take-Up of Labor Market Assistance: Evidence from Two Field Experiments" (with Adam Osman), Economica 91 (361), p. 123-141, January 2024
"Bye Bye Ms. American Sci: Women and the Leaky STEM Pipeline", Economics of Education Review 93, April 2023
"The Consequences of Promotion and Relegation in European Soccer Leagues: A Regression Discontinuity Approach", Sports Economics Review 1, March 2023
"Major-Occupation Match Quality: An Empirical Measure Based on Relative Productivity" (with Margaret Leighton), BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 23(1), p. 285-292, January 2023
"Connections, Referrals, and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from an Egyptian Establishment Survey" (with Adam Osman and Andrew Weaver), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 204, December 2022
"Labor Market Returns to College Major Specificity" (with Margaret Leighton), European Economic Review 128, September 2020
"Where The Girls Are: Examining and Explaining the Gender Gap in the Nursing Major", Scottish Journal of Political Economy 67(3), p. 322-343, July 2020
"Are Changes of Major Major Changes? The Roles of Grades, Gender, and Preferences in College Major Switching" (with Carmen Astorne-Figari), Economics of Education Review 70, p. 75-93, June 2019
"Drop Out, Switch Majors, or Persist? The Contrasting Gender Gaps" (with Carmen Astorne-Figari), Economics Letters 164, p. 82-85, March 2018
Press: Washington Post
"The Gender Gap in College Major: Revisiting the Role of Pre-College Factors", Labour Economics 44, p. 69-88, January 2017
"Pre-Market Skills, Occupational Choice, and Career Progression", Journal of Human Resources 52(1), p. 187-246, January 2017
"How Bad is Occupational Coding Error? A Task-Based Approach", Economics Letters, 141, p. 166-168, April 2016
"Cashier or Consultant? Entry Labor Market Conditions, Field of Study, and Career Success" (with Joseph G. Altonji and Lisa B. Kahn), Journal of Labor Economics, 34(S1), p. S361-S401, January 2016
"Wages, Hours, and the School-to-Work Transition: The Consequences of Leaving School in a Recession for Less-Educated Men", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 16(1), p. 97-124, January 2016
"Trends in Earnings Differentials Across Majors and the Changing Task Composition of Jobs" (with Joseph G. Altonji and Lisa B. Kahn), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 104(5), p. 387-393, May 2014
Edit this menu via the Pages tab
Show me