WORKING PAPERS  

Wealth Effects and Slow Labor Market Recoveries (2024)

with Cole Dreier

University Research and the Market for Higher Education (2023)

with Damien Capelle and Kazushige Matsuda

What to Study and When: A Dynamic Roy Model of Specialization (2023)

with Daniel Fershtman

Debt, Human Capital, and the Allocation of Talent (2022) 

with Natalie Cox, Minki Kim, and Arlene Wong

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]

Trends in Work and Leisure: It’s a Family Affair (2019)

with Sena Coskun and Matthias Doepke

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

PUBLICATIONS  

Gendered Impacts of Covid-19 in Developing Countries AEA Papers & Proceedings (2022)

with Matthias Doepke, Kristina Manysheva, and Michèle Tertilt

Macroeconomic Effects of COVID-19 Across the World Income Distribution  IMF Economic Review (2021)

 with Minki Kim, David Lagakos, and Mitchell VanVuren

From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions NBER Macroeconomics Annual (2021)

with Sena Coskun, Matthias Doepke,  David Koll, and Michele Tertilt

The Impact of Covid-19 on Gender Equality Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers (2020)

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

press coverage:  Behavioral Scientist, Forbes, Quartz, Sydney Herald, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, NPR, CNN, CNN, BBC, New York Times, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal

short publications: [CEPR Covid Economics]  [Vox EU] 

Older and Slower: The Startup Deficit’s Lasting Effects on Aggregate Productivity Growth Journal of Monetary Economics (2018)

with David Berger, Robert Dent, and Benjamin Pugsley.  

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Convergence Almost Nowhere: Employment Volatility and the Family Channel (work in progress)

with Sena Coskun and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

What is the Aggregate Impact of Pandemic Education Disruptions in Low-Income Countries? (work in progress)

with Matthias Doepke, Kristina Manysheva, and Michele Tertilt