Research

Working Papers

Ordinal Complementarity, with Martín Almuzara and Martín García-Vázquez

Firms’ Choices of Wage-Setting Protocols, with Christopher Flinn: resubmitted to Review of Economic Studies (slides)

Designing Cash Transfers in the Presence of Children’s Human Capital Formation (slides)

Frictional Adjustment to Income Tax Incentives: An Application to the Earned Income Tax Credit, with Antonella Mancino: resubmitted to Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics (slides)

Publications

Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment, with Meta Brown and Christopher Flinn, Journal of Labor Economics 43S1 (2025) (replication files)

Labor Market Search and Schooling Investment, with Christopher Flinn, International Economic Review 50 (May 2015)

A Structural Meta-analysis of Welfare Reform Experiments and Their Impacts on Children Journal of Political Economy 134-1 (2026) (appendix, replication files, slides), doi

Child skill production: Accounting for parental and market-based time and goods investments, with Elizabeth Caucutt, Lance Lochner, and Youngmin Park, Journal of Political Economy 134-1 (2026), slides, doi

Other

What’s next for the economics of child development? (a keynote talk delivered at OzMac 2024)

RC Mills Lecture - The Economics of Child Development (youtube)