Published Research
"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 long-run effects of America's first paid maternity leave policy" (new version coming soon).
"Does paid leave affect mothers' careers? Evidence from short-term disability insurance" (with Amelia Hawkins).
"The parenthood gap: Firms and earnings inequality after kids" (with Rebecca Jack and Daniel Tannenbaum).
"The effect of public preschool on parental careers and children's educational attainment."