Research
Working Papers
1.
Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages(with Ellora Derenoncourt)
MinE Best Paper Award finalist, European Economic Association
Presented at NBER Summer Institute (DAE), European Economic Association, NBER Race and Stratification Working Group (Spring 2025), Trinity College Dublin, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Oxford, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Collegio Carlo Alberto, ASSA 2026 Annual Meeting
Media: Work Rise Network
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2.
The Color Line: Measurement and Consequences of Racial Classification
Updated October 2026 · SSRN · Data: the Selective Service Panel
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3.
What Do Policy Institutions Pursue? Evidence from a Century of Central Bank Mandates(with Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen)
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4.
Building Better Negotiators? Experimental Evidence Leveraging Natural Language Processing(with Paul Gertler, Laura Chioda, and Dana Carney)
Publications
1.
The Long-Term Effects of Teachers' Gender Stereotypes on Labor Outcomes
Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming
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2.
Central Bank Independence: Views from History and Machine Learning(with Barry Eichengreen and Nergiz Dincer)
Annual Review of Economics, 2024
Selected Work in Progress
1.
Labor Market Tightness, Military Service, and Intergenerational Mobility
2.
Labor Market Concentration and Financial Frictions: Distributional Effects on Workers(with Bryan Gutierrez)
3.
Equity and Efficiency in Merit-Based Scholarship Design(with Hadar Avivi)
Policy Papers and Book Chapters