Recent Publications
“The Impact on the Labor Market of Potential Reductions in Federal Employment” Policy Hub: Macroblog April 23, 2025.
“Industry-level Sources for Strong U.S. Employment Growth: Running on Empty or More Room to Run?” Policy Hub (2024-8) with Patrick Higgins and David Wiczer
"The Pause and Resumption of the Wage Growth Tracker." Policy Hub: Macroblog. August 28, 2024 with Nicholas Croteau and Lei Fang.
"Labor Supply of Newly Immigrated Workers." Policy Hub: Macroblog. August 19, 2024 with Lei Feng and Michael Sparks
“The Dynamics of the Smoking Wage Penalty.” Journal of Health Economics. 2021 Sep;79:102485, with Michael Darden and Julie L. Hotchkiss.
"Where Are They Now? Workers with Young Children during COVID-19." Policy Hub (2021-10)
“Losing Public Health Insurance: TennCare Reform and Personal Financial Distress.” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 187, 2020, with Laura M. Argys, Andrew I. Friedson, and D. Sebastian Tello-Trillo.
“Are Minimum Wages a Silent Killer? New Evidence on Drunk Driving and Fatalities.” The Review of Economics and Statistics. 2019, vol. 101, issue 1, 192-199 with Joseph J. Sabia and Laura Argys.
Recent Working Papers
“Driven from Work: Graduated Driver Licensing Programs and Teen Labor Market Outcomes”, with Laura Argys and Tom Mroz
“Modeling Event Studies with Heterogenous Treatment Effects”, with Laura Argys and Tom Mroz
Work in Progress
"Escaping Leisure & Hospitality: The Aftermath of COVID's Great Resignation." Principal Investigator for the Project approved by the Bureau of the Census for access to confidential data in the Census Research Data Center, with Julie L. Hotchkiss.
“Household Labor Supply Elasticities during the Pandemic” with Nick Croteau
“Is our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage: A New Look at the Marriage Tax” with Elias Ilan, Laurence Kotlikoff, Kevin Lang, and Erin
“Predicting Mortality in the Consumer Credit Panel” with Andrew Friedson and David Rapach
"Financial Debt and Mortality" with Laura Argys and Andrew Friedson