PUBLISHED PAPERS
“Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data” with Peter Ganong, Fiona Greig, Daniel Sullivan, and Joseph Vavra.
Online Appendix; Replication Code.
American Economic Review, September 2024.
“Why do Borrowers Default on Mortgages?” with Peter Ganong
Online Appendix; Replication Code.
Winner of the Best Paper Award, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Meeting, 2021.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2023.
“US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic” with Peter Ganong and Joseph Vavra
Replication Code.
Journal of Public Economics, November 2020.
“Initial Impacts of the Pandemic on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Linked Income, Spending, and Savings Data” with Natalie Cox, Peter Ganong, Joseph Vavra, Arlene Wong, Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig, and Erica Deadman
Online Appendix.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Summer 2020.
“Liquidity versus Wealth in Household Debt Obligations: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession” with Peter Ganong
Online Appendix; Replication Code.
Winner of the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award.
Winner of the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award.
American Economic Review, October 2020.
“Consumer Spending During Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications” with Peter Ganong
Non-technical summary; Online Appendix; Spending Category Crosswalk; Replication Code.
American Economic Review, July 2019 (Lead article).
WORKING PAPERS
“Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Labor Income Shocks” with Peter Ganong, Damon Jones, Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig, and Chris Wheat. April 2023.
American Economic Review, Reject and resubmit
“Earnings Instability” with Peter Ganong, Christina Patterson, Joseph Vavra, and Alexander Weinberg. March 2024.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Lessons Learned from Expanded Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19” with Peter Ganong, Fiona Greig, Daniel Sullivan, and Joseph Vavra
In: Recession Remedies: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Economic Policy Response to COVID-19. Ed. by Wendy Edelberg, Louise Sheiner, and David Wessel. 2022.
OTHER WRITING
Comments on “Government and Private Household Debt Relief During COVID-19” by Cherry, Jiang, Matvos, Piskorski, and Seru
Prepared for the Fall 2021 issue of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.