Research

Publications

1. "Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects," (with Vincent Boucher, Philip Ushchev, and Yves Zenou). Econometrica, 2024, vol. 2, pp 543-565.  [WP Draft]

2. "Spatial Polarization," (with Fabio Cerina, Elisa Dienesch and Alessio Moro). Economic Journal, 2023, vol. 133, pp 30-69. [WP Draft]

3. "The Role of Gender in Employment Polarization," (with Fabio Cerina and Alessio Moro). International Economic Review, 2021, vol. 62(4), pp 1655-1691. [WP Draft; Online Appendix]

       In the media: VoxEU, May 30, 2018, "The role of gender in employment polarisation"

4. "Female Market Work, Tax Regimes, and the Rise of the Service Sector," Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, vol. 28(2), pp 269-289.  [WP Draft]

5. “Employment Polarization and the Role of the Apprenticeship System,” (with Franziska Weiss). European Economic Review, 2016, vol. 82, pp 166-186.  [WP Draft]

6. "Emancipation through Education:  A Macroeconomic Analysis," (with Fatih Guvenen). Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015, vol. 18(4), pp 931-956.  [WP Draft]

        In the media: The Region Magazine, June 2014, “Till College Do Us Part”

                              Business Insider, April 22 2013, “Female Education Has Completely Changed Marriage In America”

                              Bloomberg, April 18, 2013, “New Households Created as U.S. Kids Leave Home”

7.  "Structural Change in Developing Countries: Has It Decreased Gender Inequality?" 2013, World Development, Vol. 45, pp. 1-16.  [WP Draft]

       In the media: The World Bank, "World Development Report 2012"

Working Papers

1. "Brain versus Brawn:  The Realization of Women's Comparative Advantage," (2024). R&R Journal of the European Economic Association [Draft]

        In the media: magazin. Die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich, Nr. 4, December 2013, “Köpfchen schlägt Muskeln”

                             The World Bank, "World Development Report 2012"

2. "Gender, Income, and Numeracy Test Scores," with Molly Paterson and Jaai Parasnis (2023).  R&R Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization  [Draft]

3. "The Reversal of the Gender Education Gap with Economic Development," with Ying Feng and Jie Ren (2023) [Draft]

        In the media: VoxEU, August 26, 2023, "The reversal of the gender education gap with economic development: A cross-country analysis"

4. "A Note on Employment and Wage Polarization in the U.S.," with Fabio Cerina and Alessio Moro (2020). [Draft]

Work in Progress 

1. "College Majors and Skill Mismatch in the Labour Market," with Satoshi Tanaka and Yi Zhang (2023)

2. "Key Sectors in Endogenous Growth" with Jingong Huang and Yves Zenou (2024) 

3. "Robots and Technological Unemployment" with Fenicia Cossu and Alessio Moro (2024)

4. "The Cost of Taking a Break: Gender and Job-specific Wage Penalties," with Andrew Rendall and Harini Weerasekera (2024) [Slides] 

5. "Math Matters:  Education Choices and Wage Inequality," with Andrew Rendall (2023)

6. "Education Quality, Occupations and Economic Development: Is there a Skill-Technology Mismatch?" with German Cubas, Elisa Keller, and Guillaume Vandenbroucke (2022).

Keynotes

OUBEP Talk on Discrimination [Slides]

As part of the Economics of Discrimination lecture series at Oxford University's Business Economics Programme held in October-November 2020, I gave a talk looking into technological change, gender gaps, and inequalities in the labor market. 

Technology Innovation, Inequalities and Gender from OUBEP on Vimeo.

54th Otago Foreign Policy School [Slides]

As part of the 2019 edition of the Foreign Policy School in New Zealand, I gave a talk on income polarisation and gender gaps.