Published & Forthcoming Papers:
Redistribution, Rent-Seeking, and the Welfare Impact of a Universal Basic Income in India (with Dean Spears), forthcoming at Economic Development and Cultural Change. (working paper version)
Equilibrium Effects of Abortion Restrictions on Cohort Fertility: Why Restricting Abortion Access Can Reduce Human Capital, Social Welfare, and Lifetime Fertility Rates (with Dean Spears), 2025, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 238, 107216. (working paper version)
Fiscal Externalities and Underinvestment in Early-Life Human Capital: Optimal Policy Instruments for a Developing Country (with Dean Spears), 2024, Economics & Human Biology 55, 101444. (working paper version)
You Should Reject This Paper: Dynamic Agency, Sequential Evaluation, and Learning in Academic Publishing, 2024, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 217, 112-140. (working paper version)
What Citation Tests Really Tell Us About Bias in Academic Publishing, 2023, European Economic Review 158, 104534. (working paper version)
Optimal Unemployment Policy, 2023, Economic Inquiry 61(3), 675-692. (working paper version)
Research Note: Intergenerational Transmission is not Sufficient for Positive Long-Term Population Growth (with Samuel Arenberg, Kevin Kuruc, Nathan Franz, Sangita Vyas, Melissa LoPalo, Mark Budolfson, Michael Geruso, and Dean Spears), 2022, Demography 59(6), 2003-2012. (working paper version)
Estimating Consumer Preferences for Different Beverages using the BLP Approach (with Catherine Haeck and Krystel Poirier), 2022, Economics & Human Biology 46, 101138. (working paper version)
What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion? (with 28 co-authors), 2021, Utilitas 33(4), 379-383.
Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India (with Dean Spears), 2021, Journal of Demographic Economics 87(1), 107-140. (working paper version)
Taxing the Job Creators: Efficient Taxation with Bargaining in Hierarchical Firms, 2019, Labour Economics 56, 1-25. (working paper version)
Optimal Population and Exhaustible Resource Constraints (with Dean Spears), 2018, Journal of Population Economics 31(1), 295-335. (working paper version)
Liquidity Constraints, Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Tuition Subsidies, 2017, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9(4), 313-343. (working paper version)
Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Unemployment Insurance, 2017, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9(4), 281-312. (working paper version)
Defaults, Mandates, and Taxes: Policy Design with Active and Passive Decision-Makers (with Jacob Goldin), 2016, American Law and Economics Review 18(2), 438-462. (working paper version)
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Poorer: Adult Wages and Early-Life Mortality in India (with Dean Spears), 2016, Economics & Human Biology 21, 1-16. (open access)
Social Program Substitution and Optimal Policy, 2015, Labour Economics 37, 13-27. (working paper version)
Is Collective Bargaining Pareto Efficient? A Survey of the Literature, 2011, Journal of Labor Research 32(3), 282-304. (working paper version)
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Working Papers:
The Minimum Wage in Firms' Organizations: Productivity Implications (with Claire Lelarge and Grigorios Spanos) (also available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 18425; revise & resubmit at Journal of Political Economy)
Optimal Income Tax Deductions for Mixed Business and Personal Expenditures (with Jacob Goldin and Sebastian Koehne) (also available as NBER Working Paper No. 33270 and CESifo Working Paper No. 11561; revise & resubmit at Journal of Public Economics)
Discrimination and the Fiscal Benefits of Immigration (revise & resubmit at Canadian Journal of Economics)
Work in Progress:
"Population Externalities and Optimal Social Policy" (with Dean Spears)
"Passing the Buck(s): Welfare-Improving International Emission-Reduction Subsidies''
"Modeling Low-Fertility Traps as Feedback Effects: Low Variance in Fertility and other Mechanisms under Multigenerational Optimization'' (with Michael Geruso and Dean Spears)