Research
Research
Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools
with A. R. Shariq Mohammed, Journal of Economic History, March 2025, Vol. 85, Issue 1, 72–109
The Impact of the Retirement Slowdown on the US Youth Labor Market
Journal of Labor Economics, January 2025, Vol. 43, Number 1, 203–246
with Martha Bailey, Peter Lin, A. R. Shariq Mohammed, Jared Murray, Mengying Zhang & Alexa Prettyman, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, August 2023, Vol. 56, Issue 3, 138–159
LIFE-M dataset publicly available on openICPSR
Long-Run Intergenerational Effects of Social Security (submitted)
[NBER Working Paper 35456] [Atlanta Fed Working Paper 2026-10]
with Daniel Fetter & Lee Lockwood
The Evolution of U.S. Educational Mobility over the 20th Century and the Role of Public Education
[Atlanta Fed Working Paper 2026-1]
with Martha Bailey & A. R. Shariq Mohammed
The Introduction of Social Security and Elderly Mortality
with Daniel Fetter, Lee Lockwood & Joseph Price
Effective Marginal Tax Rates as Barriers to Economic Mobility: New National, State, and Subpopulation Estimates
with Alex Ruder, Alvaro Sánchez & Jacob Walker
The Aftermath of the Pandemic Retirement Boom
with Lei Fang & David Lee, Atlanta Fed Policy Hub: Macroblog, November 20, 2025
Demographic Changes and the Unemployment Rate
with Lei Fang, Atlanta Fed Policy Hub: Macroblog, November 13, 2025
Recent Trends in the Demand for AI Skills
with David Lee, Atlanta Fed Policy Hub: Macroblog, October 15, 2024