Working Papers
The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement [pdf]
with Eric Chyn and Kareem Haggag
Racial Inequality in Unemployment Insurance Receipt and Take-up [pdf]
with Elira Kuka
Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago’s Public Housing Demolitions [pdf]
with Milena Almagro and Eric Chyn
Published and Accepted Papers
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay [pdf]
with Martha Bailey and Thomas Helgerman
Conditionally accepted at Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity [pdf]
with Cavit Baran and Eric Chyn
Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
The Evolution of Local Labor Markets After Recessions [pdf, policy brief]
with Brad Hershbein
Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Place-Based Consequences of Person-Based Transfers: Evidence from Recessions [official link, pdf]
with Brad Hershbein, Journal of Public Economics, 224: 104923, 2023
Search and Matching in Modern Labor Markets: A Landscape Report [official link]
with Alexander Bartik, WorkRise Research Report, 2022
Who Sells During a Crash? Evidence from Tax-Return Data on Daily Sales of Stock [official link, published version]
with Jeffrey Hoopes, Patrick Langetieg, Stefan Nagel, Daniel Reck, and Joel Slemrod, Economic Journal, 132(641): 299-325, 2022
Discussed by The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Fortune, Money, Time
The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income [official link, published version]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(1): 42-74, 2022
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration [official link, published version]
with Evan Taylor, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,13(3): 134-175, 2021
Changes in the US Gender Gap in Wages in the 1960s [official link, published version]
with Martha Bailey and Thomas Helgerman, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111: 143-148, 2021
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act [official link, published version]
with Martha Bailey and John DiNardo, Journal of Labor Economics, 39(S2): S329-S367, 2021
Discussed by CBO
The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration [official link, published version]
with Evan Taylor, Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(1): 18-33, 2021
Urban Population and Amenities: The Neoclassical Model of Location [official link, published version]
with David Albouy, International Economic Review, 61(1): 127-158, 2020