Working Papers
Racial Inequality in Unemployment Insurance Receipt (with Bryan Stuart), Conditionally Accepted at the Journal of Public Economics, Updated August 2024
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 29595
Welfare Program Spillovers (with David Jinkins and Claudio Labanca), Updated March 2025
Anomalous Unemployment Insurance Payments During the Pandemic (with Adam Isen and Bryan Stuart), January 2025
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 29595
Welfare Program Spillovers (with David Jinkins and Claudio Labanca), Updated March 2025
Anomalous Unemployment Insurance Payments During the Pandemic (with Adam Isen and Bryan Stuart), January 2025
Publications
Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth (with Na'ama Shenhav), American Economic Review, Vol. 114(6): 1692–1722, 2024 (Ungated PDF)
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 27444
Women's Suffrage and Children's Education (with Esra Kose and Na'ama Shenhav), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 13(3): 374–405, 2021 (Ungated PDF)
-- NBER Working Paper No. 24933
-- Previously circulated with titles "Who Benefited from Women's Suffrage?" and "Women's Enfranchisement and
Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement"
-- Winner of the 2014 IPUMS Research Award for Best Work by a Graduate Student using IPUMS-USA data.
-- Media Coverage: The Washington Post, The Atlantic
Quantifying the Benefits of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Health, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 103(3): 490-505, 2020 (Ungated PDF)
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 24766
-- Replication package is here
Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA (with Na'ama Shenhav and Kevin Shih), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 12(1): 293-324, 2020 (Ungated PDF)
-- Media Coverage: Vox, Chicago Booth Review, Promarket.org, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
Inside Higher Ed, MarketWatch, Univision, Chalkbeat, National Skills Coalition
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper No 24315
The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers (with Scott E. Carrell and Mark Hoekstra), American Economic Review, Vol. 108(11): 3377–3415, 2018 (Ungated PDF)
-- Media Coverage: NPR
-- Research Summary: VoxEU.org, NBER Digest [May 2016], UC Davis Center for Policy Research Policy Brief
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 22042
Do In-Work Tax Credits Function as a Safety Net? (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes) Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 52(2): 319-350, 2017 (Ungated PDF)
-- Media Coverage: Business Insider
-- Research Summary: UC Davis Center for Policy Research Policy Brief, NBER Digest [June 2014]
Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 36(2): 358-389, 2017
-- Media Coverage: PBS, Wonkblog
-- Previous version: UNICEF Working Paper 2014-11, NBER Working Paper 22682
Reexamining the Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance (with Chloe N. East), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 132: 32-50, 2015 (Ungated PDF)
EITC and the Self-Employed: Real or Reporting Effects?, Public Finance Review, Vol. 42(6): 691-719, 2014
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 27444
Women's Suffrage and Children's Education (with Esra Kose and Na'ama Shenhav), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 13(3): 374–405, 2021 (Ungated PDF)
-- NBER Working Paper No. 24933
-- Previously circulated with titles "Who Benefited from Women's Suffrage?" and "Women's Enfranchisement and
Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement"
-- Winner of the 2014 IPUMS Research Award for Best Work by a Graduate Student using IPUMS-USA data.
-- Media Coverage: The Washington Post, The Atlantic
Quantifying the Benefits of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Health, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 103(3): 490-505, 2020 (Ungated PDF)
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 24766
-- Replication package is here
Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA (with Na'ama Shenhav and Kevin Shih), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 12(1): 293-324, 2020 (Ungated PDF)
-- Media Coverage: Vox, Chicago Booth Review, Promarket.org, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
Inside Higher Ed, MarketWatch, Univision, Chalkbeat, National Skills Coalition
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper No 24315
The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers (with Scott E. Carrell and Mark Hoekstra), American Economic Review, Vol. 108(11): 3377–3415, 2018 (Ungated PDF)
-- Media Coverage: NPR
-- Research Summary: VoxEU.org, NBER Digest [May 2016], UC Davis Center for Policy Research Policy Brief
-- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper 22042
Do In-Work Tax Credits Function as a Safety Net? (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes) Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 52(2): 319-350, 2017 (Ungated PDF)
-- Media Coverage: Business Insider
-- Research Summary: UC Davis Center for Policy Research Policy Brief, NBER Digest [June 2014]
Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 36(2): 358-389, 2017
-- Media Coverage: PBS, Wonkblog
-- Previous version: UNICEF Working Paper 2014-11, NBER Working Paper 22682
Reexamining the Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance (with Chloe N. East), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 132: 32-50, 2015 (Ungated PDF)
EITC and the Self-Employed: Real or Reporting Effects?, Public Finance Review, Vol. 42(6): 691-719, 2014
OTHER Publications
The Macroeconomy and Poverty (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes) The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 711(1): 82-99, 2024
A Reason to Wait: The Effect of Legal Status on Teen Pregnancy (with Na'ama Shenhav and Kevin Shih)
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 109: 213-217, 2019
-- Media Coverage: The Atlantic
A Reason to Wait: The Effect of Legal Status on Teen Pregnancy (with Na'ama Shenhav and Kevin Shih)
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 109: 213-217, 2019
-- Media Coverage: The Atlantic
