Research

Published and Forthcoming Papers

Early Joiners and Startup Performance (with Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, and J. Daniel Kim). Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming)

Working Papers

High-Growth Firms in the United States: Key Trends and New Data Opportunities (with Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, and J.Daniel Kim), submitted

Unemployment Benefits Expansion and Business Formation (with Samuel Messer, Michael A. Navarrete, and Veronika Penciakova)

Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data (with Serguey Braguinsky, Yuheng Ding, Karam Jo, and Seula Kim), submitted

Entrepreneurial Risk Taking, Young Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Implications

Political Connections, Allocation of Government Spending, and the Jobs Multiplier (with Veronika Penciakova and Felipe Saffie), submitted

Flying High or Crashing Down: Pre-entry Knowledge and the Distribution of Startup Performance (with Rajshree Agarwal, Ben Campbell, and Seth Carnahan), Revise and Resubmit, Strategic Management Journal