Working papers

Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization.

Using a policy change in Australia during COVID-19, we find that self-control issues significantly predict
early withdrawals from retirement accounts.

We provide novel evidence on bureaucratic fragmentation and weak tax administrations as enablers of low revenue mobilization in low-income countries.

We study how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education in the United States.

Twentieth-century U.S. data confirm the predictions, rank-based measures co-move while the intergenerational elasticity diverges as inequality rises.

We find that strategically concentrating resources on a single binding constraint maximizes the short-run learning gains per dollar spent.

We study how replacing bureaucrats’ discretion with algorithmic assessment affects the accuracy, equity, and public acceptance of tax decisions.

We study the housing market response to a national disclosure policy that mandated the prominent display of energy efficiency information at listing.

We study New York City’s Community Schools Initiative using a difference-in-differences design.

In this paper, we provide the first evidence on the effect of working from home (WFH) on crime.

We document substantial heterogeneity in workforce effectiveness in England’s national home-visiting programme for first-time teenage mothers.

This paper examines the impact of early childcare on academic achievement for children in grade 5 and grade 9, based on a 2003 policy expansion.

Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are increasingly common.

I prove that, in a simple but general framework, expected pass-through is unchanged by the presence of focal pricing constraints.

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

AI is often predicted to raise productivity while displacing human work, yet organizational adoption remain uneven and aggregrate effects are mixed.

Are there particular social structures that allow ethnic diversity to coexist with political stability and economic development?

Many policy decisions involve trade-offs between lives and livelihoods. We provide estimates for a new welfare parameter that expresses this trade off

We find evidence that the passage of “DNA laws” streamlining access to forensic DNA technology was a watershed in the exoneration of Black Americans

We analyze anticipatory effects associated with the EU’s Directive on Public Country-by-Country Reporting.