Research

Publications

• “The Summer Drop in Female Employment”

  (with Melanie Wasserman)

  • Review of Economics and Statistics, accepted
  • Replication package

• “Income in the Off-Season: Household Adaptation to Yearly Work Interruptions”

  (with John Coglianese)

  • ILR Review, 2025
  • Working paper (with appendix)
  • Upjohn Institute brief
  • Replication package

• “Disability Insurance in the Great Recession: Ease of Access, Program Enrollment, and Local Hysteresis”

  (with Melissa Kearney and Riley Wilson)

  • American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, 2021
  • Longer NBER working paper
  • Replication package

• “Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s”

  (with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson)

  • Journal of Labor Economics, 2016
  • Replication package

• “Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in US Manufacturing”

  (with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson)

  • American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 2014
  • Replication package

Working papers

• “The Duration and Wage Effects of Long-Term Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Germany's Hartz IV Reform”

  • Recipient of the W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award

• “The Cyclical Behavior of Unemployment Claims”

Policy writing

• “The Persistent Urban Shortfall in Leisure and Hospitality Employment”

  (with Brendan Chapuis and Seth Murray)

• “Gender Gaps in the Labor Market Widen Every Summer”

  (with Melanie Wasserman)

• “Long COVID, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates”

• “Why Have Initial Unemployment Claims Stayed So High for So Long?”

• “Reconciling Unemployment Claims with Job Losses in the First Months of the COVID-19 Crisis”

  (with Tomaz Cajner, Andrew Figura, David Ratner, and Alison Weingarden)

Work in progress

• "Winter in the Labor Market"
  "Seasonal Cycles in Labor Market Flows"
  "Childcare Time and the Length of the Workday"