PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS
A Method to Align Heterogeneous Migration Data in the U.S. Census and American Community Survey
June 2025.
Forthcoming at the Annals of Regional Science.
Aspects of the analysis were part of a previous paper, "The Impact of Migration on Earnings Inequality" (Media coverage: WBUR Radio Boston).
The Supply Side of Discrimination? Evidence from the Labor Supply of Boston Taxi Drivers
January 2024.
Media coverage: BostonFed.org.
Forthcoming at the Journal of Human Resources.
WORKING PAPERS
Punishment and Crime: The Impact of Felony Conviction on Criminal Activity
August 2025.
The Impact of Market Factors on Racial Identity: Evidence from Multiracial Survey Respondents
August 2025.
2010–2012 Massachusetts CORI Reform
(with Bo Zhao), December 2024.
Media coverage: Arizona Daily Star, Boston Globe, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cision PRWeb, Christian Science Monitor, Daily Caller,
Huffington Post, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Pew Charitable Trusts Stateline, Quartz, Sentinel & Enterprise, State House News
Service, WGBH, WBUR Radio Boston.
(with Bo Zhao), December 2024.
Media coverage: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
Job Displacement and Sectoral Mobility
February 2024.
Occupational Licensing and Occupational Mobility
September 2023.
Does Immigration Crowd Natives Into or Out of Higher Education?
May 2022.
Larceny in the Product Market: A Hidden Tax?
(with Thu Tran), October 2020.
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Employment and Cohabitation
RESTING PAPERS
Natural Disasters, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth
May 2022.
Media coverage: The Economist, World Bank Blog: Let's Talk Development, Borgen Magazine.
(with Laura Kawano), April 2016.
Valuable Vows: An Examination of the Marriage Premium Using Same-Sex Marriage Legalization
(with Ian Burn), June 2014.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK PUBLICATIONS
Authorization to Work: The Prevalence of Occupational Licensing in New England
(with Matthew Sexton) NEPPC Regional Brief no. 2024-4, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 2, 2024.
Occupational Licensing and Occupational Mobility in New England
NEPPC Research Report no. 23-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2023.
Sectoral Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(with Catherine Cox) Current Policy Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, December 7, 2022.
Job Displacement and Sectoral Mobility in New England
NEPPC Research Report no. 21-3, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2021.
An Approach to Predicting Regional Labor Market Effects of Economic Shocks: The COVID-19 Pandemic in New England
Current Policy Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 29, 2020.
The Impact of Felony Larceny Thresholds on Crime in New England
(with Riley Sullivan), NEPPC Research Report no. 20-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2020.
The Impact of Migration on Earnings Inequality in New England
NEPPC Research Report no. 19-2, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2019.
Reintegrating the Ex-Offender Population in the U.S. Labor Market: Lessons from the CORI Reform in Massachusetts
(with Riley Sullivan and Bo Zhao), NEPPC Research Report no. 17-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2017.
Can Subsidized Housing Help Address Homelessness in New England?
(with Robert Clifford), Communities and Banking (Fall), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 7-9, 2016.
Can Subsidized Housing Help Address Homelessness in New England?
(with Robert Clifford), NEPPC Research Report no. 15-3, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2015.
Educational Attainment, Unemployment, and Wage Inflation
(with Mary Daly and Robert Valletta), Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 49-61, 2008.
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