Working Papers
"The parenthood gap: Firms and earnings inequality after kids" (with Rebecca Jack and Daniel Tannenbaum).
Published and Accepted Papers
"Job tasks, leadership, and the gender gap after parenthood" (with Daniel Tannenbaum). AEA Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming.
"The labor market impacts of America's first paid maternity leave policy." Journal of Public Economics, 231, March 2024.
Preprint available here.
"When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women's College Major Choices" (with Avery Calkins, Ariel J. Binder, and Dana Shaat). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023, 15 (3): 1-34.
"Prep school for poor kids: The long-run impact of Head Start on human capital and economic self-sufficiency" (with Martha J. Bailey and Shuqiao Sun). American Economic Review, December 2021, 111(12), 3963-4001.
See also our summary for the Brown Center Chalkboard, write-ups in the April 2021 NBER Digest and the May 2021 UCLA Anderson Review, our summary from June 2021 in VoxEU, and this article from January 2019 in Vox. Hoa-Luu Nguyen also produced this excellent econimate video on our paper.
"Weathering, Drugs, and Whack-a-Mole: Fundamental and Proximate Causes of Widening Educational Inequity in U.S. Life Expectancy by Sex and Race, 1990-2015" (with Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, Timothy A. Waidmann, and Javier M. Rodriguez). Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2019, 60(2), 222-239.
"The effect of parental Medicaid expansions on children's health insurance outcomes" (with Sarah Hamersma and Matthew Kim). Contemporary Economic Policy, April 2019, 37(2), 297-311.
"Hope for America's Next Generation" (with Martha Bailey). Science 352(6286), May 2016. PMCID: PMC4900691
Selected Works in Progress
"The persistent cost of parenthood: Evidence from large-scale administrative data for contemporary American mothers" (with Martha J. Bailey and Deniz Gorgulu).
"Does paid leave affect mothers' careers? Evidence from short-term disability insurance" (with Amelia Hawkins).
"The long-term health and economic benefits of family planning programs" (with Martha J. Bailey and Olga Malkova).
"The effect of public preschool on parental careers and children's educational attainment."
"Benefits and Barriers to Supplemental Security Income Program Application and Participation: Evidence from Census RDC Linked Data" (with Amelia Hawkins).