Research

Publications

Does the Census Miss the Native-Born Children of Immigrant Mothers? Evidence from State-Level Undercount by Race and Hispanic Status. Population Research and Policy Review 41: 139-195, January 2022.

Out-migration from and Return Migration to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: Evidence from the Consumer Credit Panel (with Jack DeWaard and Stephan D. Whitaker). Population and Environment, 42(1): 28-42, September 2020.

Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration? (with Morris M. Kleiner). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 12(3): 347-373, August 2020. Earlier version appeared as NBER working paper No. 24107.

Internal Migration in the United States: A Comprehensive Comparative Assessment of the Consumer Credit Panel (with Jack DeWaard and Stephan D. Whitaker). Demographic Research, 41(33): 953-1006, Oct 2019.

The Long-Run Health Consequences of Rural-Urban Migration (with Evan J. Taylor). Quantitative Economics 10(2): 565-606, May 2019.

Changing Patterns of Geographic Mobility and the Labor Market for Young Adults (with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl). Journal of Labor Economics 37(S1): S199-S241, January 2019.

Working Papers

Does Your Spouse’s Occupation Limit Your Own Career Advancement? Occupational Licensure, Interstate Migration, and the Labor Market Outcomes of Husbands and Wives Revised manuscript in preparation. ASSA 2022 slides with updated results.

Would Longer Weekends Keep Teachers in Rural Schools? Evidence from Minnesota's Four-Day School Week Program as a Non-Monetary Incentive (with Joseph Aguilar Bohorquez and Elton Mykerezi). Revised manuscript in preparation

The Impact of Anti-Abortion Laws on Fertility in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States (with J. David Hacker) Revised manuscript in preparation. Presented at the 2022 PAA meetings as "Old Question, New Methods: Advances in Difference-in-Differences and the Effect of Anti-Abortion Laws on Fertility in the Nineteenth-Century United States" Award-winning PAA poster

Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing Exams in Spanish: Evidence from Cosmetology (with Jason Hicks)

Work in Progress

"Explaining the Decline in U.S. Internal Migration: The Role of Return Migration" (with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl)

"The Effects of Female Incarceration on Racial Differences in Foster Care" (with Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Gregory N. Price, William J. Sabol, and Man Xu).

"Estimating Short- and Long-Term Effects on Population Change Resulting From Hurricane Exposure in U.S. Counties, 1970-2017" (with Sara R. Curran, Xinguang Fan, Matthew Dunbar, Elizabeth Fussell, and LuAnne Thompson)