Research

Working papers

• “The Summer Drop in Female Employment”

  • With Melanie Wasserman
  • UCLA Anderson Review Research Brief

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

  • Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS) 2020-084
  • With John Coglianese
  • Upjohn Institute Policy Brief and summary

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

  • Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS) 2020-055
  • With Tomaz Cajner, Andrew Figura, David Ratner, and Alison Weingarden

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

  • Co-recipient of the 2017 W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award

Publications

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

  • American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, 2021, 111, 486–490
  • With Melissa Kearney and Riley Wilson
  • NBER Working Paper No. 28725
  • Replication package

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

  • Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34, S1 (Part 2), S141–S198
  • With Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson
  • VoxEU summary
  • Replication package

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

  • American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 394–399
  • With Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson
  • Replication package

Policy writing

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

  • FEDS Notes, August 2022

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

  • FEDS Notes, July 2021

Other writing

• “The Changing Task Composition of the US Labor Market: An Update of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003)”

  • With David Autor