On the Transition to Sustained Growth: The Importance of Recent Agricultural Employment
with B. Ravikumar
Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2025
On the Economic Mechanics of Warfare
International Economic Review, May 2025
Technology Adoption, Mortality and Population Dynamics
with J. Hejkal and B. Ravikumar
Economic Journal, February 2025
The Mechanics of Individually- and Socially-Optimal Decisions during an Epidemic
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, September 2021
Comparative Advantage and Moonlighting
with S. Auray and D. Fuller
European Economic Review, October 2021
The Baby Boomers and the Productivity Slowdown
European Economic Review, February 2021
Workers' Diversity and Wage Growth since 1940
with M. Peake
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 1st Quarter 2020
Fertility Shocks and Equilibrium Marriage-Rate Dynamics
with J. A. Knowles
International Economic Review, November 2019
Explaining Cross-Cohort Differences in Life Cycle Earnings
with Yu-Chien Kong and B. Ravikumar
European Economic Review, August 2018
Family Economics Writ Large
with J. Greenwood and N. Guner
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2017
Why Are Life-Cycle Earnings Profiles Getting Flatter?
with B. Ravikumar
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 3rd Quarter 2017Â
Aging and Wealth Inequality in a Neoclassical Growth Model
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 1st Quarter 2016
Measurement Without Theory, Once Again
with J. Greenwood and A. Seshadri
Journal of Demographic Economics, September 2015
Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
with D. Restuccia
Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2014
Fertility and Wars: The Case of World War I in France
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2014
The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis
with D. Restuccia
International Economic Review, August 2013
A Century of Human Capital and Hours
with D. Restuccia
Economic Inquiry, July 2013
A Quantitative Analysis of China's Structural Transformation
with R. Dekle
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, January 2012
United States
with J. B. Nugent
in Aging and Economic Growth Potential in the Pacific Region
A. Kohsaka, editor (London: Routledge, 2012)
Whither Chinese Growth? A Sectoral Growth Accounting Approach
with R. Dekle
Review of Development Economics, August 2010
Trends in Hours: The U.S. from 1900 to 1950
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, January 2009
The American Frontier: Technology versus Immigration
Review of Economic Dynamics, April 2008
The U.S. Westward Expansion
International Economic Review, February 2008
Hours Worked (long-run trends)
with J. Greenwood
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics,
L. E. Blume and S. N. Durlauf, editors (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
The Baby Boom and Baby Bust
with J. Greenwood and A. Seshadri
American Economic Review, March 2005