PUBLISHED:

Entrepreneurial Dynamics and the Small-Firm Effect (with Barton Hamilton and Mostafa Salari).  Forthcoming 2026. Journal of Human Capital; 20(1) [pdf]

Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment (with Barton Hamilton, Robert Miller and Nicholas Papageorge). 2021.  International Economic Review; 62(3) [pdf][animated appendix: treatment evolution]

Entrepreneurship over the Life Cycle: Where Are the Young Entrepreneurs? 2020. International Economic Review; 61(2). [pdf]

Family Income Inequality and the Role of Married Females’ Earnings in Mexico: 1988-2010. (with Raymundo M. Campos-Vázquez and Ruben Irvin Rojas-Valdés). 2012, Latin American Journal of Economics; 49(1). [pdf]

WORKING PAPERS:

Life-Cycle Fertility, Human Capital, and Family Polices: A Discrete-Continuous Choice Framework (with George-Levi Gayle and Robert Miller) [pdf] (R&R at the Journal of Political Economy)

Medical Innovation and Health Disparities (with Barton Hamilton, Emma Kalish and Nicholas Papageorge) (2nd Round R&R at the Review of Economic Dynamics) [pdf]

The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave: Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation (with Andrea Flores and George-Levi Gayle) [pdf] (under review)

Insider CEOs: Lucky or Good? (with Andrew Capron, Barton Hamilton and Noah Lyman) [pdf] (under review)

The Bright Side of Nepotism? Family CEOs, Turnover, and Firm Performance (with Barton Hamilton and Noah Lyman). [pdf] (under review)

Factors Associated with General Primary-care Office-based Practice: A Retrospective National-cohort Study (with William E. Freeman, Carl Sanders, and Donna B. Jeffe) (Accepted at the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine)

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Optimal Parental Leave Policies in the Presence of Statistical Discrimination and Child Development (joint with George-Levi Gayle) [We finally got access to Census data for this project!]

Social Entrepreneurship and Reputation (with Robert Miller)

Entrepreneurship in Black and White: Life Cycle Differences in Entrepreneurship between Black and White Males (with Barton Hamilton, Noah Lyman, Prasanthi Ramakrishnan and Sid Sanghi)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

What Can Be Done to Promote Black Entrepreneurship? (with Siddhartha Sanghi, Maggie Isaacson, Barton H. Hamilton, and Prasanthi Ramakrishnan). January, 2022. The Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. [article]

Which Persists More from Generation to Generation—Income or Wealth? (with George-Levi Gayle). July, 2016. The Regional Economist. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. [pdf]

Breaking Down the Gender Wage Gap by Age and by Hours Worked (with Limor Golan). October, 2016. The Regional Economist. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. [pdf]