Research

Working Papers

Insurance and Asymmetric Information in Labor Contracts: Evidence from an Online Experiment  [Slides]

The Determinants of Credit Access in the United States (draft pending disclosure review), with Trevor Bakker, Eric English, Jamie Fogel, and Nathaniel Hendren

Publications

Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and Missing Markets for Human Capital, with Nathaniel Hendren, American Economic Review 114.7 (2024): 2024-2072. [Executive Summary] [Slides]  [Animated Example] 

• In the media: New York Times

The Impact of Income-Driven Repayment on Student Borrower Outcomes, AEJ: Applied Economics 15.1 (2023): 1-25.

• In the media: New York Times

Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data, with Henry Farber, Ilyana Kuziemko, and Suresh Naidu, Quarterly Journal of Economics 136.3 (2021): 1325-1385.

• In the media: The Economist, Vox, New York Times

Peer effects on worker output in the laboratory generalize to the field, with Alexandre Mas, Science 350.6260 (2015): 545-549. 

Research in Progress

Equity and Incentives in Household Financing, with Miguel Palacios and Constantine Yannelis