Research Papers

Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment, with Paco Martorell, IZA Discussion Paper 9680, Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017

Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians, with Jacob Vogler, IZA Discussion Paper 10079, Submitted

A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide, with Adriana Corredor-Waldron and Guillermo Marshall, Submitted

Smoked Out: The Effect of Wildfire Smoke on Labor Market Outcomes, with David Molitor and Eric Zou - new draft soon 

The Effect of Presidential Service on Life Expectancy, Unpublished Mimeo, UC Berkeley, 2014 

Work in Progress

Does Idleness Beget Idleness? Persistence and Heterogeneity in NEET Youth, with Yuci Chen, Xiaoyu Xia and Jin Yan

NAACP Growth from 1919-1956, with Dan Aaronson and Bhash Mazumder 

Minimum Wages and Retirement, with Heepyung Cho

Can Sickness Drive Early Retirement? Influenza Exposure and Labor Supply, with Nicholas J. Sanders