Working Papers
Schooling and Coming Out: Education as a Coping Mechanism
Gender Gaps in Productivity and Labor Market Opportunities: The Celluloid Ceiling and Film Directors' Career Trajectories
<Joint work with Hongyuan Jin>
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States
<Joint work with Christopher S. Carpenter and Laura Nettuno>
Transgender Earnings Effects in the United States: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
<Joint work with Christopher S. Carpenter and Lucas Goodman>
Work in Progress
Ongoing extension to Using Longitudinal Data to Explore the Gender Gap for Academic Economists
<Joint work with Kelly Bedard and Heather Royer>
Using Economic Theories to Understand the Family Lives of Asexuals and Aromantics
Publications
Effects of Legal Access to Same-Sex Marriage
<Journal of Policy Analysis and Management - with M. V. Lee Badgett, Christopher S. Carpenter, and Dario Sansone - Forthcoming>
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
<Journal of Economic Literature - with M. V. Lee Badgett, Christopher S. Carpenter, and Dario Sansone - Forthcoming at https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20231668>
Economic Outcomes for Transgender People and Other Gender Minorities in the United States: First Estimates from a Nationally Representative Sample
<Southern Economic Journal - with Christopher S. Carpenter and Laura Nettuno - Available at https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12594>
Transgender people face significant economic challenges
Commentary piece about the research (published at IZA World of Labor)
Using Longitudinal Data to Explore the Gender Gap for Academic Economists
<AEA Papers and Proceedings 111: 69-73 - with Kelly Bedard and Heather Royer - Available at https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20211087>
The Effect of Import Competition on Community College Enrollment: Evidence from NAFTA
<Economics of Education Review 82: 102117 - Available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775721000364>
Minimum Wage Policy and Community College Enrollment Patterns
<ILR Review 73(1): 178-210 - Available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019793919855003>
<the STATA Journal 18(2): 447-460 - with Doug Steigerwald>