The Global Distribution of College Graduate Quality
2024 | Journal of Political Economy, 132(2): 434-483 | With Paolo Martellini and Jason Sockin
Previously: Working Paper 791
Labor Market Dynamics and Development
2023 | Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(4): 2287-2325 | With Kevin Donovan and Will Jianyu Lu
Previously: Staff Report 596
The Role of Labor Market Frictions in Structural Transformation
2023 | Oxford Development Studies, 51(4): 362-374 | With Kevin Donovan
Skilled Labor Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences
2023 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 15(1): 240-268 | With Lutz Hendricks
College Quality and Attendance Patterns: A Long-Run View
2021 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13(1): 184-215 | With Lutz Hendricks and Christopher Herrington
Previously: Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Paper 10
Life-Cycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries: Lessons from U.S. Immigrants
2018 | Journal of Human Capital, 12(2): 305-342 | With David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, and Nancy Qian
Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Immigrant Earnings
2018 | Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(2): 665-700 | With Lutz Hendricks
Previously: Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Paper 1
Life Cycle Wage Growth across Countries
2018 | Journal of Political Economy, 126(2): 797-849. | With David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, and Nancy Qian
Wages, Human Capital, and Barriers to Structural Transformation
2018 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 10(2): 1-23 | With Berthold Herrendorf
Environmental Regulations and the Welfare Effects of Job Layoffs in the United States: A Spatial Approach
2017 | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 9(2): 198-218 | With Nicolai V. Kuminoff and Christopher Timmins
Early Childhood Human Capital and Development
2016 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 8(3): 145-174
Why is Measured Productivity so Low in Agriculture?
2015 | Review of Economic Dynamics, 18(4): 1003-1022 | With Berthold Herrendorf
Student Abilities during the Expansion of US Education
2014 | Journal of Monetary Economics, 63: 19-36 | With Lutz Hendricks
Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
2012 | Quantitative Economics, 3(1): 133-175 | With Alejandrina Salcedo and Michèle Tertilt
Education Quality and Development Accounting
2012 | The Review of Economic Studies, 79(1): 388–417
The Occupations and Human Capital of U.S. Immigrants
2010 | Journal of Human Capital, 4(1): 1-34
Marriage Laws and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
2006 | American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 96(2): 295-298 | With Michèle Tertilt