Research

Working papers

“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”
- Revision requested at the Review of Economic Studies
- Co-recipient of the 2017 W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award
“The Summer Drop in Female Employment”
- Draft available upon request
- With Melanie Wasserman

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

“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