WORKING PAPERS  



Trends in Work and Leisure: It’s a Family Affair (2025)  

with Sena Coskun and Matthias Doepke



Gender Divergence in Sectors of Work (2025)

with Sena Coskun and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey



Debt, Human Capital, and the Allocation of Talent (2024)  R&R  American Economic Review

with Natalie Cox and Minki Kim



A Dynamic Roy Model of Academic Specialization (2025)  Conditionally Accepted at  Journal of Economic Theory

with Daniel Fershtman



University Research and the Market for Higher Education (2024)  Conditionally Accepted at AEJ: Macroeconomics

with Damien Capelle and Kazushige Matsuda



Wealth Effects and Slow Labor Market Recoveries (2024)

with Cole Dreier



This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession (2020)

with Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, and Michele Tertilt

press coverage: Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, China Daily, Christian Science Monitor, Deseret News, MarketWatch, The Daily Chronicle, WBEZ, Vox, Planet Money, Wochenzeitung, HR Pulse, CAPRW, Monthly Labor Review, BYU Radio, US News and World Report, CNBC, ECB (Speech by Isabel Schnabel), Marketwatch, Wall Street Journal, 2023 Podcast, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg Business, Nederlands Dagblad, WDR 5, Elle, New York Times, BBC, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune.



How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World?  (2020)

with Minki Kim, David Lagakos, and Mitchell VanVuren

short publications: [CEPR Covid Economics] [Vox EU] [IGC Policy Brief]



Earning More by Doing Less: Human Capital Specialization and the College Wage Premium (2019)