Working papers

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. 

The probability of entering the public sector rises with education, and this paper documents that this educational gradient has strengthened. 

We study the role of Gender Role Attitudes (GRA)—beliefs about appropriate roles for men and women—in marital sorting and intra-household allocations.

We document “Cheapflation”: within defined categories, prices rise fastest for low-quality essentials, disproportionately affecting poorer household.

We estimate the economic impacts of rape using population-wide Finnish police reports and hospital admissions.

In UK data, I document the prevalence of misbeliefs regarding the State Pension eligibility age (SPA) and their predictivity for retirement.

We hypothesise that structured management practices are a General Purpose Technology that helps firms adapt to unforeseen shocks.

We trace the lifecycle of judicial bias in India’s criminal courts, leveraging the quasi-random assignment of judges to courts and cases.

This paper evaluates a scalable model that engages parents to improve early learning in contexts where both schools and homes are constrained.

We evaluate the introduction of freestanding Emergency Care Centers within Brazil’s publicly funded health system, leveraging rich administrative data

We propose a novel measure of intergenerational welfare mobility, “value-value” slope, including both pecuniary and non-pecuniary value of a job. 

Expert opinion suggests the planet’s feasibly sustainable population size is roughly half its current level. 

We analyze the impact of the EU’s Directive on Public Country-by-Country Reporting, where multinational corporations must disclose key financial data.

Using Danish administrative data, we study how postpartum mental health shocks shape women’s labor market trajectories.

We study the impact of the UK house price boom on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, housing wealth, location and earnings.

We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap. 

Using the 1937 introduction of antibiotics, we study how childhood pneumonia affects adult education, employment, income, and work disability.

Governments frequently rely on multiple actors to deliver technology-adoption policies at scale, yet we find that information can reduce adoption.

We show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers.