Working Papers
Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth (with Na'ama Shenhav), Accepted at the American Economic Review, Updated March 2023
Racial Inequality in Unemployment Insurance Receipt and Take-Up (with Bryan Stuart), March 2022
Racial Inequality in Unemployment Insurance Receipt and Take-Up (with Bryan Stuart), March 2022
Publications
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
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
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
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
-- 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
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
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
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