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Published Papers

• The Mechanics of Individually- and Socially-Optimal Decisions during an Epidemic
  B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2021-0072
  |Paper here|
• Comparative Advantage and Moonlighting
  with S. Auray and D. Fuller
  European Economic Review, 139, October 2021, 103897
  |Paper here|
• The Baby Boomers and the Productivity Slowdown
  European Economic Review, 132, February 2021, 103609
  |Paper here|
• Workers' Diversity and Wage Growth since 1940
  with with M. Peake
  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 1st Quarter 2020, pp. 1-18
  |Paper here|
• Fertility Shocks and Equilibrium Marriage-Rate Dynamics
  with J. A. Knowles
  International Economic Review, 60(4) November 2019, pp. 1505-1537
  |Paper here| |Discussion on Quartz|
• Explaining Cross-Cohort Differences in Life Cycle Earnings
  with Yu-Chien Kong and B. Ravikumar
  European Economic Review, 107 August 2018, pp. 157-184
  |Paper here|
• Family Economics Writ Large
  with J. Greenwood and N. Guner
  Journal of Economic Literature, 55(4) December 2017, pp. 1346-1434
  |Paper here|
• Why Are Life-Cycle Earnings Profiles Getting Flatter?
  with B. Ravikumar
  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 3rd Quarter 2017, pp. 245-257
  |Paper here|
• Aging and Wealth Inequality in a Neoclassical Growth Model
  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 1st Quarter 2016, pp. 61-80
  |Paper here|
• Measurement Without Theory, Once Again
  with J. Greenwood and A. Seshadri
  Journal of Demographic Economics, 81(3) September 2015, pp. 317-329
  |Paper here|
• Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
  with D. Restuccia
  Review of Economic Dynamics, 17(4) October 2014, pp. 824-841
  |Paper here| |Presentation here| |Online appendix here|
• Fertility and Wars: The Case of World War I in France
  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 6(2) April 2014, pp. 108-136
  |Paper here| |Presentation here|
• The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis
  with D. Restuccia
  International Economic Review, 54(3) August 2013, pp. 915-936
  |Paper here|
• A Century of Human Capital and Hours
  with D. Restuccia
  Economic Inquiry, 51(3) July 2013, pp. 1849-1866
  |Paper here|
• A Quantitative Analysis of China's Structural Transformation
  with R. Dekle
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36(1) January 2012, pp. 119-135
  |Paper here|
• United States
  with J. B. Nugent
  in Aging and Economic Growth Potential in the Pacific Region
  A. Kohsaka, editor (London: Routledge, 2012)
• Whither Chinese Growth? A Sectoral Growth Accounting Approach
  with R. Dekle
  Review of Development Economics, 14(3) August 2010, pp. 487-498
  |Paper here|
• Trends in Hours: The U.S. from 1900 to 1950
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 33(1) January 2009, pp. 237-249
  |Paper here|
• The American Frontier: Technology versus Immigration
  Review of Economic Dynamics, 11(2) April 2008, pp. 283-301
  |Paper here|
• The U.S. Westward Expansion
  International Economic Review, 49(1) February 2008, pp. 81-110
  |Paper here|
• Hours Worked (long-run trends)
  with J. Greenwood
  The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics,
  L. E. Blume and S. N. Durlauf, editors (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
  |Paper here|
• The Baby Boom and Baby Bust
  with J. Greenwood and A. Seshadri
  American Economic Review, 95(1) March 2005, pp. 183-207
  |Paper here| |Data here|