Working Papers

“The High Cost of Doing Good: Earnings in Social Assistance Jobs in the U.S.” (with Nancy Folbre). R&R submitted

“The Paradox of Seclusion: Regional Differences in Gender Gaps in Employment and Wages in Urban India” [pdf]

“Gender, Motherhood and Wages in India” [Ideas for India blog post]. Under review

Work in Progress

“The Firm Gender Wage Gap Over the Life Cycle” (with Ihsaan Bassier)

"Not All Leisure is Created Equal: Examining Trade-offs Between Income and Leisure" (with Clemens Hetschko and Peter Howley)

"Household Production and Inequality in Living Standards in the U.S., 1965-2019" (with Nancy Folbre) 

“Employment Opportunities and Women’s Bargaining Power in India”

Published Papers

"Parental Expenditures of Time and Money on Children in the U.S." (with Nancy Folbre). 

The Review of Income and Wealth. Forthcoming.

“Earnings Inequality and the Expansion of Care Services in the U.S., 1985-2019” (with Nancy Folbre and Kristin Smith). 

Industrial Relations Journal 55(2): 119-140, 2024.

"Gender Inequality, Bargaining, and Pay in Care Services in the United States" (with Nancy Folbre and Kristin Smith)

ILR Review 76(1): 86-111, 2023.

“It Takes a Village: Childcare and Women’s Paid Employment in India”

Population and Development Review 48(3): 795-828 , 2022.

[Policy brief here: ASA Sociological Insights for Development Policy 2023, 8(2)]

"Environmental Engineering as Care for Human Welfare and Planetary Health" (with Dan Oerther and Nancy Folbre)

Journal of Environmental Engineering 148(6): 1-8, 2022.

“Essential Workers and Care Penalties in the United States” (with Nancy Folbre and Kristin Smith)

Feminist Economics 27(1): 173–187, 2021. 

Book Chapters

“Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic” (with Franziska Dorn, Nancy Folbre, and Martha MacDonald)

In Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, and Kim Price-Glynn, eds. Confronting the Global Care Crisis during COVID-19: Past Problems, New Issues, and Pathways to Change. 2022. Rutgers University Press.

“What is the Effect of an Exogenous Shock to the Wage Share? VAR Results for the US, 1973-2018” (with Deepankar Basu) 

In Deepankar Basu and Debarshi Das eds. Conflict, Demand and Economic Development: Essays in Honor of Amit Bhaduri. 2020. New York: Routledge.