SELECTED RECENT PAPERS                                                                                                   Home

"The local origins of Business Formation", (co-authored with Emin Dinlersoz, Thimothy Dunne and Veronika Penciakova), CES 23-34, 2023.
"Using Machine learning to construct hedonic price indices", (co-authored with Michael Cafarella, Gabriel Ehrlich, Tian Gao, Matthew D. Shapiro andLaura Zhao). NBER 2023.
"Quality adjustment at scale: Hedonic vs. Exact demand-based price indices", (co-authored with Gabriel Ehrlich, Ron S. Jarmin, David Johnson, Ed Olivares, Luke W. Pardue, Matthew D. Shapiro andLaura Zhao). NBER 2023
"Automation and the workforce: A firm-level view from the 2019 annual business survey". (With coauthors). NBER 2022
"Industries, mega firms and increasing inequality", (co-authored with Henry Hyatt and James Spletzer). NBER 2022
"Opening the black box: Task and skill mix and productivity dispersion", (co-authored with G. Jacob Blackwood, Cindy Cunningham, Matthew Dey, Lucia S. Foster, Cheryl Grim, Rachel L. Nesbit, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle andZoltan Wolf). NBER 2022
"Rising Markups or changing technology?", (co-authored with Lucia S. Foster, and Cody Tuttle). NBER, 2022
“Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data,” (co-authored with Henry R. Hyatt and James Spletzer), Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming).
“Early Joiners and Startup Performance” (co-authored with Joonkyu Choi, Nathan Goldschlag, and Daniel Kim), Review of Economics and Statistics, (forthcoming). (Online Appendix)
“The Life-Cycle Growth of Plants: The Role of Productivity, Demand and Wedges,” (co-authored with Marcela Eslava and Nicolas Urdaneta, Review of Economic Studies, (forthcoming). (Online Appendix)
“Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Financial Conditions” (co-authored with Steven Davis), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, (forthcoming).
“Dispersion in dispersion: Measuring establishment-level differences in productivity,” (co-authored with Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grimm, Sabrina Pablionia, Jay Stewart, and Zoltan Wolf), Review of Income and Wealth, 2022.
“Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment”, Journal of Labor Economics, October 2021 (co-authored with Katharine Abraham, Claire Hou, Kristin Sandusky, and James Spletzer). (Online Appendix)
"High‑frequency data from the U.S. Census Bureau during the COVID‑19 pandemic: small vs. new businesses", Business Economics, July 2021, 155-167 (co-authored with Catherine Buffington, Daniel Chapman, Emin Dinlersoz, and Lucia Foster)