The Emergence of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Women's Marriage Outcomes (with Claudia Olivetti, Daniele Paserman, and Laura Salisbury) Accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics
(previously circulated as "Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940" link)
The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military (with Kyle Greenberg and Melanie Wasserman) revise and resubmit at the Quarterly Journal of Economics (NBER working paper here)
In this paper, we exploit the staggered integration of women into combat units to estimate the causal effects of the introduction of female colleagues on men’s job performance and satisfaction, using monthly administrative personnel records and rich survey responses measuring workplace climate. We find little evidence that integrating women into previously all-male units negatively impacts men’s performance and behavior. However, the integration of women causes a negative shift in male soldiers' perceptions of workplace quality, including job satisfaction, organizational effectiveness, and the organization’s ability to address potential incidents of sexual harassment/assault.
Gender and Group Decision-Making: Evidence from US City Councils (with Emilia Brito, Jesse Bruhn, and Thea How Choon) (NBER working paper here)
Using a close-election regression discontinuity design, we find that replacing a male city councilor with a female city councilor results in a 25p.p. increase in the share of motions proposed by women. This is despite causing only a 17p.p. increase in the council female share. We find that the discrepancy is driven, in part, by behavioral changes by isolated female councilors. When a lone woman is joined by a new female colleague, she participates more actively in council discussion by proposing more motions.
The Big House far from Home: Spatial Distance and Criminal Recidivism (link)
In this project, I address the question of whether offenders' distance from home during incarceration affects later recidivism. I instrument for an inmate’s distance from home with the average or minimum distance to state facilities from their home county, which varies across county and within county over time due to prison openings and closures. Doubling an inmate’s distance from home decreases the rate of 1-year recidivism by 3.3 percentage points.
Voluntary Minimum Wages in the Public Childcare Sector (with Sara Downing)