Research

My publications, working papers, and current projects are reported below. Please click on the title to view the abstract or full manuscript.

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

Callaci, B., Pinto, S., Steinbaum, M., and Walsh, M. (2023). “Vertical Restraints and Labor Markets in Franchised Industries”, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4155571, Research in Labor Economics (forthcoming).

Pinto, S., and Steinbaum, M. (2023). "The Long-Run Impact of the Great Recession on Student Debt", Labour Economics, 85: 102449. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102449  

Graham, C., and Pinto, S. (2021). "The geography of desperation in America: Labor force participation, mobility, place, and well-being", Social Science & Medicine, 270 (113612).

Pinto, S., Bencsik, P., Chuluun, T., and Graham, C. (2021). "Presidential Elections, Divided Politics, and Happiness in the U.S.", Economica, 88: 189–207. doi:10.1111/ecca.12349

Graham, C., and Pinto, S. (2019). "Men without work: A global well-being and ill-being comparison", IZA World of Labor 464.

Graham, C., and Pinto, S. (2019). "Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and premature mortality", Journal of Population Economics, 32: 665–733, doi:10.1007/s00148-018-0687-y.

Graham, C., Laffan, K., and Pinto, S. (2018). "Well-being in metrics and policy", Science, 362 (6412): 287-288.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Graham, C., and Pinto, S. (2016). "Chapter 2 - Unhappiness in America: Desperation in white towns, resilience and diversity in the cities", in Brookings Big Ideas For America, edited by Michael E. O'Hanlon, 18-27. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

WORKING PAPERS

Callaci, B., Pinto, S., Steinbaum, M., and Walsh, M. (2023). “The Effect of Franchise No-poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings”. [revise & resubmit at The Review of Economics and Statistics]

Dobson, E., Graham, C., Hua, T., and Pinto, S. (2022). “Despair and resilience in the U.S.: Did the COVID pandemic worsen mental health outcomes?”, with Emily Dobson, Carol Graham, and Tim Hua, Brookings Global Working Paper #171.

WORK IN PROGRESS

"Composition and mobility of the top wage earners in Portugal, 1986-2019"

"The effect of labor market concentration on wages, precarity, mobility, and inequality"

“Wage discrimination against immigrants: Evidence from Portugal”

"The effect of competition on immigrant-native wage gaps: Quasi-experimental evidence from Portugal"

"The effect of hospital mergers on medical debt and other outcomes"

"The effect of Portugal's Residency-by-Investment  program on tax evasion"

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (NON-ACADEMIC)

Nilaj, E. Pinto, S., Steinbaum, M., and Beamer, L. (2023). "The Repayment Pause and the Continuing Crisis of Non-repayment", Jain Family Institute report. 

Pinto, S. and Steinbaum, M., (2021). "Hysteresis & Student Debt", Phenomenal World, Jain Family Institute.

Graham, C., and Pinto, S., (2020). "Reopening America: How division and vulnerability hamper our response", Brookings Up Front blog.

Graham, C., and Pinto, S., (2019). "Why are out-of-work men so unhappy in the US?", Brookings Up Front blog.

Graham, C., and Pinto, S. (2018). "Progress paradoxes in China, India, and the US: A tale of growing but unhappy countries", Brookings Up Front blog.

Graham, C., Pinto, S., and Juneau, J. (2017). "The geography of desperation in America", Brookings blog post. 

Graham, C., and Pinto, S. (2017). "The Trump “unhappiness” effect nears the Great Recession for many", Brookings Up Front blog.

Graham, C., Pinto, S., and Ruiz, J. (2015). "Stress, worry, and social support: Inequality in America’s cities", Brookings Social Mobility Papers.