Working papers and selected work in progress

• Social Connections and the Persistence of Income Across Generations (with Alexander Whalley)

• The Worker Level Impact of Resource Sector Shocks

• The Geography of Gender Gaps in Education and Earnings

Publications

• Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility (with Catherine Haeck)
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17(1): 431-458, 2025.
  [Manuscript, Replication package]
  Dataset: Measures of occupational segregation by parental income, occupational following and occupational returns
  
  

• The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies (with Sencer Karademir and Stefan Staubli)
  Journal of Labor Economics, Accepted.
  [Manuscript]
  Dataset: Canadian Atlas of Child Penalties
  Media coverage: NBER Digest
  
  

• Estimating Complementarity With Large Choice Sets: An Application to Mergers (with Daniel Ershov, Mathieu Marcoux and Scott Orr)
  RAND Journal of Economics, Accepted.
  
  

• Salience and Taxation with Imperfect Competition (with Kory Kroft, René Leal Vizcaíno and Matthew J. Notowidigdo)
  Review of Economic Studies, 91(1): 403-437, 2024.
  [Manuscript, Online Appendix, Replication package]
  
  

• Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital (with Mitra Akhtari and Natalie Bau)
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(1): 1-32, 2024.
  [Manuscript, Slides, Replication package]
  
  

• Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences (with Kory Kroft, René Leal Vizcaíno and Matthew J. Notowidigdo)
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16(2): 300–334, 2024.
  [Manuscript, Online Appendix, Replication package]
  
  

• Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(2): 336–377, 2021.
  [Manuscript, Replication package]
  Media coverage: AEA Research Highlights.
  
  

• Language Skill Acquisition in Immigrant Social Networks: Evidence from Australia
  Labour Economics, 57: 35-45, 2019.
  [Manuscript]
  
  

• What Sets College Thrivers and Divers Apart? A Contrast in Study Habits, Attitudes, and Mental Health (with Graham Beattie, Catherine Michaud-Leclerc and Philip Oreopoulos)
  Economics Letters, 178: 50-53, 2019.
  [NBER Working Paper]
  Media coverage: Financial Times.
  
  

• Thrivers and Divers: Using Non-Academic Measures to Predict College Success and Failure (with Graham Beattie and Philip Oreopoulos)
  Economics of Education Review, 62: 170-182, 2018.
  [NBER Working Paper]
  Media coverage: Washington Post, Journal Métro.

Book chapters

• Parental Education and the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations (with Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck)
  in Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth. University of Chicago Press. 2022. [Manuscript]