Published papers

“Birth Order and the Decline in College Completion among the Baby Boom Generation,” with Katharine L. Shester. Economic Inquiry, 2022.

“Local Changes in Intergenerational Mobility,” with Katharine L. Shester, April 2022. Forthcoming, Labour Economics.

“A Rank-Based Measure of Educational Assortative Mating,” Applied Economics Letters, 2021.

“Concrete Measures: The Rise of Public Housing and Changes in Young Single Motherhood in the U.S.,” with Katharine L. Shester and Samuel K. Allen, Journal of Population Economics, 2019.

“Schooling, marriage, and age at first birth in Madagascar,” with Peter J. Glick and David E. Sahn, Population Studies, 2015.

Working paper

“Accounting for Increasing Earnings Volatility in the United States,” May 2017.

Works in progress

“Advising in Economics Ph.D. Programs,” with A. Joseph Guse.

“The Vietnam Draft and Women’s Educational Attainment,” with Katharine L. Shester.

Other published work

“External Capabilities,” with James E. Foster, in Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, 2009, K. Basu and R. Kanbur, eds., Oxford University Press.