Working Papers

1. Earnings Instability. with Pascal Noel, Christina Patterson, Joe Vavra and Alex Weinberg. March 2024.
2. Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks. with Damon Jones, Pascal Noel, Fiona Greig, Diana Farrell, and Chris Wheat. April 2023. Reject and resubmit, American Economic Review.

Published and Forthcoming Papers

1. Disemployment Effects of Unemployment Insurance: A Meta-Analysis. with Jon Cohen. American Economic Review: Insights. Conditionally Accepted. August 2024.
2. Spending and Job Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data. with Fiona Greig, Pascal Noel, Daniel Sullivan and Joe Vavra. September 2024.  American Economic Review. Online Appendix. Replication Kit.
3. Why Do Borrowers Default on Mortgages? with Pascal Noel. May 2023. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Online Appendix. Replication Kit.
4. Should We Have Automatic Triggers for Unemployment Benefit Duration And How Costly Would They Be? with Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Jon Gruber. AEA Papers and Proceedings. May 2022. Replication Kit.
5. US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic. with Pascal Noel and Joe Vavra. Journal of Public Economics. August 2020.
6. Initial Impacts of the Pandemic on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Linked Income, Spending, and Savings Data. with Natalie Cox, Erica Deadman, Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig, Pascal Noel, Joe Vavra, and Arlene Wong. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. June 2020. Online Appendix.

7. Liquidity vs. Wealth in Household Debt Obligations: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession

   with Pascal Noel. American Economic Review. October 2020. Online Appendix. Replication Kit. 

8. Consumer Spending During Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications. with Pascal Noel. American Economic Review. July 2019. Non-technical Summary. Online Appendix. Spending Category Crosswalk. Replication Kit.
9. The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes. with Jeffrey Liebman. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. November 2018. Online Appendix.  
10. How Do Changes In Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality? with Rob Collinson. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. May 2018. Online Appendix. 
11. A Permutation Test for the Regression Kink Design. with Simon Jaeger.  Journal of the American Statistical Association. June 2018. Stata function <rdpermute>. 
12. Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined? with Daniel Shoag. Journal of Urban Economics. November 2017. Online Appendix.  Replication Kit.
13. Criminal Rehabilitation, Incapacitation, and Aging. American Law and Economics Review. December 2012. Code. 

Policy Writing

1. Economic Effects of Revenue Provisions of Bring Chicago Home with Jomana Abdelrahman, Damon Jones, and Jesse Orr. November 2023.
2. Aggregate Short-Term Employment Effects of Terminations of Pandemic Unemployment Programs  with Pascal Noel and Joe Vavra. August 2022.
3. Recession Remedies: Lessons Learned from Expanded Unemployment Insurance During Covid-19 with Fiona Greig, Pascal Noel, Daniel Sullivan and Joe Vavra. April 2022. The Hamilton Project.

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