SELECTED RECENT PAPERS                                                                                                   Home

"The Children of HOPE VI Demolitions: National Evidence on Labor Market Outcomes" (co-authored with Mark Kutzbach, Giordano Palloni, Henry Pollakowski, Matthew Staiger and Daniel Weinberg), Journal of Public Economics, (forthcoming).
"The (Heterogenous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts" (co-authored with Steven J. Davis, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda), Management Science (forthcoming)
"Cyclical Worker Flows: Cleansing vs. Sullying" (co-authored with Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer, and Matthew Staiger), Review of Economic Dynamics, January 2025.
"The Impact of AI on the Workforce: Tasks versus Jobs?" (co-authored with Kathryn Bonney, Cory Breaux, Catherine Buffington, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, Zachary Kroff, and Keith Savage), Economics Letters, November 2024
"Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality" (co-authored with Henry Hyatt and James Spletzer), American Economic Review, October 2024.
"Surging Business Formation in the Pandemic: A Brief Update" (co-authored with Ryan Decker), September 2024, mimeo.
“Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Financial Conditions” (co-authored with Steven Davis), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2024.
"Early Joiners and Startup Performance" (co-authored with Joonkyu Choi, Nathan Goldschlag, and Daniel Kim), Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2023. (Online Appendix)
"Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data" (co-authored with Henry R. Hyatt and James Spletzer), Journal of Labor Economics October 2023, S61-S63.
"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.
"The Size and Life-Cycle Growth of Plants: The Role of Productivity, Demand, and Wedges" (co-authored with Marcela Eslava and Nicolas Urdaneta, Review of Economic Studies, 2023. (Online Appendix)
"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
"Surging Business Formation During the Pandemic: Causes and Consequences?" (co-authored with Ryan Decker), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 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
"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.
"Childhood Housing and Adult Earnings: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing" (co-authored with Fredrik Andersson, Mark Kutzbach, Giordano Palloni, Henry Pollakowski, and Daniel Weinberg), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2022
"Job creation in Colombia vs the U.S.: "up or out dynamics" meets "the life cycle of plants" (co-authored with Marcela Eslava and Alvaro Pinzon), Economica, July 2022.
"Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-First Century"(Global Entrepreneurship Research Award Prize Lecture), Small Business Economics, January 2022.
"Entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Business Formation Statistics," Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2022, vol. 1(1), pages 9-42.
“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)
"Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: From Devilish Details to Insights" (co-authored with Jake Blackwood, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, and Zoltan Wolf). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021
"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)