The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility (with Kurt Lavetti and Michael Lipsitz). updated November 2023. Accepted, Journal of Political Economy. [NBER WP #31929]
replication package and NCA Enforceability 1991--2014 panelSelect Media coverage: NY Times; USA Today; Washington Post, WorkRisePolicy impact: cited in FTC's proposed rule on noncompetes; 2022 Economic Report of the President; 7/22/2024 Senate testimonyTrade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections (with Kerwin K. Charles and Nagisa Tadjfar). Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics. [NBER WP# 29464] (ungated version).
Media: Brookings (Hutchins Roundup)
Do Safety Management System Standards Indicate Safer Operations? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard (with Kala Viswanathan and Michael Toffel ), Safety Science, 2024. ungated copy
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA (with David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel). AEJ: Applied, October 2023.
Media: op-ed in the Regulatory Review
Legal Protection Against Retaliatory Firing Improves Workplace Safety (with Daniel Schwab and Patrick Koval). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024. ungated version
Why Are Low-Wage Workers Signing Noncompete Agreements? (with Michael Lipsitz). Journal of Human Resources, 2022. ungated version
Employment Outcomes Among Cancer Patients in the United States (with Roni Nitecki, Benjamin Albright, and Haley Moss). Cancer Epidemiology, February 2022.
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining (with Kerwin K. Charles, Mel Stephens, and Do Lee). Journal of Labor Economics, January 2022. (ungated version)
Media: Yale Insights; Academic TimesRegulation by Shaming: Deterrence Effects of Publicizing Violations of Workplace Safety and Health Laws. American Economic Review, June 2020.
"Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss" (with David I. Levine and Michael Toffel). Science 336, no. 6083 (May 18, 2012): 907–911.
Innovation, Inventor Mobility, and the Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements (with Michael Lipsitz and Alison Pei). Updated December 2024. [NBER WP #31487]
Media: The Business Journals; WIRED
Policy impact: cited in FTC's proposed rule on noncompetes; cited in 7/22/2024 Senate testimonyComplaint-driven Regulation and Working Conditions: Evidence from Immigration Enforcement (with Amanda Grittner). updated March 2024.
Media: Washington Post; American Prospect
Does Cleaning the Air Affect Workers' Health? How Firms Manage Competing Regulatory Demands, January 2018.
Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson. "Foreign Direct Investment and Growth." Chap. 20 in The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization, edited by Gerard Caprio, 299–307. Elsevier, 2012.
Baily, Martin N., Robert E. Litan and Matthew S. Johnson. “The Origins of the Financial Crisis.” The Brookings Institution; Fixing Finance Series: Paper 3 (2008).
Johnson, Matthew S. “The Power of Ideas and American Racial Struggles in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Clio’s Scroll: Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal; spring (2007).