Research

Publications

• Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S. (with Gizem Kozar, Jessica Pan, and Basit Zafar).  Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics (conditional to submitting replication package).

• Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab (with Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, Ernesto Reuben, and Basit Zafar). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138(4): 2069-2126. 

• Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market. (with Jessica Pan). Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61(4): 1359-1409.

Also: NBER Working Paper #27980 

• Immigration, Household Production, and Native Women’s Labor Market Outcomes: A Survey of a Global Phenomenon European Economic Review, 2023, Vol. 158. 104545.

• Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia (with Semiray Kasoolu and Carolina Pan) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71(4): 1179-1426.

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers' Expectations and Preferences for Remote Work (with Yuting Chen, Gizem Kosar, Jessica Pan, and Basit Zafar). AER Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113: 556-61.

• Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Market Penalty for Skilled Women (with Marianne Bertrand, Claudia Olivetti, and Jessica Pan) Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88(4): 1936:1978. 

•  When Time Binds: Substitutes to Household Production, Returns to Working Long Hours and the Gender Wage Gap among the Highly Skilled (with Jessica Pan) Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37(2): 351-398.

• Occupation and Gender (with Jessica Pan). In  Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds), Oxford Handbook on Women and the Economy, 2018.

• Cross-Country Evidence on the Relationship between Overwork and Skilled Women’s Job Choices (with Jessica Pan), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2017. Vol 107 (5): 105-109. 

• Immigration and Occupational Choice: The Case of Nurses in the United States (with Jessica Pan) CESifo Economic Studies (Special Issue on Migration), 2015. Volume 61, No. 3/4. pp. 797-823.

• The Relative Quality of Foreign Nurses in the US (with Jessica Pan) Journal of Human Resources, 2015. Vol 50: 1009-1050.

• The Feminization of International Migration and its effects on the Families Left behind: Evidence from the Philippines. World Development, January 2015, Vol 65:62-78.

• Foreign Nurse Importation and the Supply of Native Nurses (with Jessica Pan) Journal of Health Economics, 2014. Vol 37, Issue C164-180.

• Outsourcing Household Production: The Demand for Foreign Domestic Helpers and Native Labor Supply in Hong Kong(With Jessica Pan) Journal of Labor Economics, 31(2) Part 1, April 2013, pp. 327-371.

•  Low-skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women (With Jose Tessada) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(3) July 2011, pp. 88-123.

• The Effect of Low-skilled Immigration on US Prices: Evidence from CPI Data Journal of Political Economy, 116(3), June 2008, pp. 381-42

Policy Reports

• Gender, Occupational Segregation, and Automation (with Jessica Pan), 2019, prepared for the inaugural conference on “Automation and the Middle Class” for the Brookings Institution, Future of the Middle Class Initiative.

Working Papers

• Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap, with Ying Fen,  Nicolas Guida-Johnson, and Jessica Pan 

• Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students, with Jacob French, Jessica Pan and Basit Zafar.

•  Prevalence of Long Hours and Skilled Women's Occupational Choices, with Jessica Pan

Work in Progress

• Reaching for the Top: Gender Differences in the Labor Market and Household Outcomes of Top Talent in Sweden and the United States, with Jessica Pan and Anna Sjögren