You can find the paper here. Title: International Migrants and the Human Capital Formation of Their Left-Behind Children Abstract: International migration can disrupt families and affect the human capital investment of left behind children. Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, I document that mothers with husbands in the Read more…

You can find the paper here. Title: Commuting and the Value of Marriage Abstract: Over time, as metro-areas sprawled to the suburbs, long commutes became common. In this paper I combine motivating evidence with a structural model to show how policies resulting in long commutes affect singles differently than couples Read more…

You can find the paper here. Title: Misallocation in the Market for Inventors Abstract: How much misallocation is there in the market for inventors? This paper introduces a novel growth model where firms search for inventors in a frictional labor market, and where the efficiency of innovation depends on the Read more…

You can find the paper here. Title: How Will a New Malaria Vaccine Shape Africa’s Economic Future? A Macroeconomic Analysis Abstract: Malaria is the primary cause of death among children and a barrier to childhood human capital accumulation in sub-Saharan Africa. The macroeconomics literature thus far concludes that eradicating malaria Read more…

Title: Removing the Mark: Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation Abstract: We investigate whether removing or reducing the severity of a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. Using quasi-experimental strategies and a field experiment, we estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted Read more…