Working Papers

Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment (with Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst). April 2013. (Online Appendix) Under Review.

The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks. March 2013. (Online Appendix) Under Review.

Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence (with Kory Kroft). December 2011. (Online Appendix) Revise and Resubmit.

Published Papers and Forthcoming Papers

Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Kory Kroft and Fabian Lange). February 2013. (Online Appendix) Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates (with Tal Gross and Jialan Wang). January 2013. (Online Appendix) Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks (with Daron Acemoglu and Amy Finkelstein). May 2012. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption (with Amy Finkelstein and Erzo Luttmer). May 2011. (Online Appendix) Journal of the European Economic Association, 11: 221-258, January 2013.

Health Insurance and the Consumer Bankruptcy Decision: Evidence from Expansions of Medicaid (with Tal Gross). Journal of Public Economics, 95(7-8): 767-778, August 2011.

Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments (with Jonathan Guryan and Kory Kroft). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4), pp. 34-68, October 2009.

Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function (with Amy Finkelstein and Erzo Luttmer). American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), pp. 116-121, May 2009.