Publications
Publications
Coming Out in America: Thirty Years of Cultural Change (with Sahar Parsa and Martina Viarengo), The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2024.
Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment (with Diego Daruich), American Economic Review, 114(1): : 38-88, 2024.
Culture and the Family (with Natalie Bau), in Handbook of the Economics of the Family, edited by S. Lundberg and A. Voena, North-Holland, Volume 1, Issue 1, Chapter 1, 2023, pages 1-48.
The Asymmetric Gender Effects of High Flyers (with Angela Cools and Eleonora Patacchini), Labour Economics, 79, 2022.
Gay Politics Goes Mainstream: Democrats, Republicans, and Same-Sex Relationships (with Sahar Parsa), Economica, 89: S86-S109, 2022.
Gender Equality (with A. Isakova, F. Luna, and B. Rambousek), chapter in How to Achieve Inclusive Growth, edited by V. Cerra, B. Eichengreen, A. El-Ganiany, and M. Schindler, Oxford University Press, 2022
Comment on Guvenen, Kaplan, & Song "The Glass Ceiling and the Paper Floor", NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2020, 35, University of Chicago Press, April 2020.
Family and gender: questions for the New Institutional Economics, chapter in A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics, edited by C. Menard and M. Shirley, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018
Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes (with J. Wong), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 9(3): 72–115, July 2017
Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation (with J. Wong), The Economic Journal, 124(576), p.319-358, May 2014
Women’s Rights and Development, Journal of Economic Growth, 19(1), 37-80, March 2014
Unilateral Divorce, the Decreasing Gender Gap, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation (with J. Wong), American Economic Review, P&P, 2014.
Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century, American Economic Review, 103 (1), p.472-50, 2013
Does Culture Matter? chapter in Handbook of Social Economics edited by J. Benhabib, M. O. Jackson and A. Bisin, Vol. 1A, North-Holland, 2011
Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility (with A. Fogli), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009.
Culture and Economics, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008
Slides from Marshall Lecture Presentation, August 2006
Diversity and Redistribution (with G. Levy), Journal of Public Economics, 2008
Women, Work, and Culture, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007
Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience (with A. Fogli), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006
Comments on Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in Globalization and Poverty edited by A. Harrison, University of Chicago Press, 2007
Socially Responsible Trade Integration in Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics---Europe: Are We on Track to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals edited by Bourguignon, François, Boris Pleskovic, and André Sapir, World Bank: Washington, D.C.; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality (with N. Guner and J. Knowles), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005
Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics (with A. Fogli and C. Olivetti), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004
Equity and Resources: An Analysis of Education Finance Systems (with R. Rogerson), Journal of Political Economy, 2003
Household Formation, Inequality, and the Macroeconomy, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003
Sorting, Education and Inequality, chapter in Advances in Economics and Econometrics edited by Dewatripont, Hansen, and Turnovsky, Cambridge University Press, 2003
School Vouchers as a Redistributive Device: An Analysis of Three Alternative Systems (with Richard Rogerson), chapter in The Economics of School Choice edited by C. Hoxby, University of Chicago Press, 2003
Comment on the Injustice of Inequality, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2003
Education, Segregation, and Marital Sorting: Theory and Application to the UK, European Economic Review, 2002
Sorting and Long-Run Inequality (with R. Rogerson), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001
The Determinants of Public Education Expenditures: Longer-Run Evidence From the States, 1950-1990 (with R. Rogerson), Journal of Education Finance, 2001
To Each According to ...? Tournaments, Markets and the Matching Problem Under Borrowing Constraints (with J. Gali), Review of Economic Studies, 1999
Education Finance Reform and Investment in Human Capital: Lessons From California (with R. Rogerson), Journal of Public Economics, 1999
Debt Concentration and Secondary Market Prices (with S. Ozler), International Economic Review, 1999
Comments on Boldrin et al. "The future of pensions in Europe", Economic Policy, 1999
Comment on Bagwell and Staiger in Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy edited by Richard Baldwin, Daniel Cohen, Andre Sapir, and Anthony Venables, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Income Distribution and Public Education: A Dynamic Quantitative Analysis of School Finance Reform (with R. Rogerson), American Economic Review, 1998
Reprinted in Income Distribution, edited by M. Sattinger, in the series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, edited by M. Blaug, forthcoming.
Commitment, Signaling, and Insurance: An Analysis of Non-Traditional Gains from RTAs, Regionalism and Development, European Commission Studies Series, 1998
Returns to Regionalism: An Evaluation of Non-Traditional Gains from RTAs (with J. Portes), World Bank Economic Review, 1998
Odd Versus Even: Comparative Statics in Multicommunity Models, Journal of Public Economics, 1997
Education Finance Reform: A Dynamic Perspective (with R. Rogerson), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1997
Keeping People Out: Income Distribution, Zoning and the Quality of Public Education (with R. Rogerson), International Economic Review, 38, 1997
Income Distribution, Communities and the Quality of Public Education (with R. Rogerson), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996
Zoning and the Political Economy of Local Redistribution (with R. Rogerson), Cuadernos Economicos, 1996
On the Political Economy of Education Subsidies (with R. Rogerson), Review of Economic Studies, 1995
Sovereign Debt (with J. Eaton), chapter in Handbook of International Economics, vol. 3, edited by G. Grossman and K. Rogoff, North Holland, 1995.
Book Review of “Private Lending to Sovereign States” by Daniel Cohen, Journal of International Economics, 1992.
Terms of Trade Uncertainty, Incomplete Markets and Unemployment, International Economic Review, 1992
Bank Heterogeneity, Reputation and Debt Renegotiation (with D. Kaaret), International Economic Review, 1992
Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty (with D. Rodrik), American Economic Review, 1991
Reprinted in Monetary and Fiscal Policy edited by T. Persson and G. Tabellini, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994
Reprinted in The Political Economy of Reform edited by F. Sturzenegger and M. Tommasi, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998
Striking for a Bargain Between Two Completely Informed Agents (with J. Glazer), American Economic Review, 1991
El Espacio para el Comportamiento Solidario Entre los Paises Deudores, El Trimestre Economico, 1990
Spanish translation of “The Scope for Collusive Behavior Among Debtor Countries
The Scope for Collusive Behavior Among Debtor Countries (with J. Glazer), Journal of Development Economics, 1990
Strategic Models of Sovereign-Debt Renegotiation (with R. Rosenthal), Review of Economic Studies, 1990
Comment on ‘Industrial Wage Differential, International Competition and Trade Policy’ by L. Katz and L. Summers, in Trade Policies for International Competitiveness edited by R. Feenstra, University of Chicago Press, 1989