Working Papers
"Gender Convergence in Couples' Time Use Following the COVID-19 Pandemic."
"Lands of Opportunity: Differences in the Geography of Wealth and Income Mobility in the United States," with Max Risch and John Voorheis. Forthcoming in the NBER CRIW Volume on Measurement of Housing and the Housing Sector.
"Housing Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States," with Max Risch and John Voorheis.
"Where to Build Affordable Housing? Evaluating the Tradeoffs of Location," with Cody Cook and Pearl Z. Li. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.
"Variation in the Gender Pay Gap across a Diverse Sample of Postsecondary Graduates," with Kendall Houghton, Amanda Eng, and Andrew Foote. Reject and Resubmit, Journal of Human Resources.
"Race and Mobility in U.S. Marriage Markets: Quantifying the Role of Segregation," with Caroline Walker, Jonathan Eggleston and Marta Murray-Close. Revise and Resubmit, Labour Economics.
"The Effect of Declining Marriage Prospects on Young Men's Labor-Force Participation Rate."
"Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top?" with Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote. 2024. AEA Papers and Proceedings 114: 248-53.
"When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women's College Major Choices," with Avery Calkins, Dana Shaat and Brenden Timpe. 2023. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15 (3): 1-34.
"Comparing the 2019 American Housing Survey to Contemporary Sources of Property Tax Records: Implications for Survey Efficiency and Quality," with Emily Molfino and John Voorheis. 2022. JSM Proceedings, Survey Methods Research Section: 1688-1717.
"Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes," with David Lam. 2022. Journal of Human Resources 57 (6): 1885-1914.
"Rising Inequality in Mothers' Employment Statuses: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission." 2021. Demography 58 (4): 1223-1248.
"The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men," with John Bound. 2019. Journal of Economic Perspectives 33 (2): 163-190.
"Inflation and Public Debt Reversals in the G7 Countries," with Bernardin Akitoby and Takuji Komatsuzaki. 2017. Journal of Banking and Financial Economics 1 (7): 28-50.
"A Modern History of Fiscal Prudence of Profligacy," with Paolo Mauro, Rafael Romeu and Asad Zaman. 2015. Journal of Monetary Economics 76: 55-70.
Reports and Briefs
"The Gender Convergence Restarts, Led by Dads" (with Ben Smith: American Institute for Boys and Men Research Summary)
"The College-Graduate Workforce in the Transition to a Post-Pandemic Labor Market: Trends in Employment, Professional Engagement, and Work Arrangements" (with Census and NSF coauthors: National Science Foundation Infobrief)
"Acreage Administrative Records Data Research for the American Community Survey" (with many coauthors: ACS Research and Evaluation Report)
"Opportunities for Marriage, Partnership Shape Women's Family Incomes" (with Marta Murray-Close, Caroline Walker, and Jonathan Eggleston)
"Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Employment Earnings, and Professional Engagement: New Insights from the 2021 National Survey of College Graduates" (with Michaela Dillon, Lynn Milan, and Kelly Phou: National Science Foundation Infobrief)
"The Within-Gender Gap: Employment Inequality among U.S. Mothers" (N-IUSSP Research Summary)
Works in Progress
"The Link between Fertility and Retirement and its Implications for Family Policy" (with Paula Calvo, Brian C. Fujiy, Long Hong, and Joanna Venator)
"Long-Run Effects of Empowerment Zone Programs on Children and Communities" (with Eric Chyn, Rob Collinson, Cody Cook, and John Voorheis)
"Expanding the Window on Childhood: New Estimates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in the US Using Population-wide Tax Data from 1979 to 2024" (with Bhashkar Mazumder and Gamaliel de la Torre)