In research conducted in collaboration with Arkey Barnett at the University of Michigan and Meghan Beal at the National Sheriffs’ Association, we investigate the effects of innovative investments in ...

Recently the global economy has experienced several major shocks yet EMEs have been remarkably resilient. Some of this improved performance can be attributed to prudent policies and stronger economic ...

We interpret exchange rate and yield curve responses to the April 2, 2025 U.S. tariff announcement through the lens of an equilibrium model capturing the portfolio balance mechanism. Disciplined by ...

We investigate the short- and long-run impacts of unexpected mortality on psychosocial health in the context of a large-scale high-mortality natural disaster, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

We revisit the classic identification problem of separating supply and demand for a homogeneous good using data from multiple markets. We allow markets to be heterogeneous according to unobservables, ...

We quantify firms’ compliance costs of regulation from 2002 to 2014 in terms of their labor input expenditure to comply with government rules, a primary component of regulatory compliance spending for ...

We develop a simple and intuitive Pigouvian perspective on optimal trade policy. Our approach unifies a wide range of rationales for taxing trade, from the classical optimal tariff argument to ...

This paper studies social insurance with imperfect eligibility screening, focusing on Unemployment Insurance (UI) during its expansion in 2020 and 2021. We study the extent of imperfect screening by ...

This paper examines the labor market effects of overtime coverage in the United States, where salaried workers are covered for overtime if their base pay falls below a legislated salary threshold.

We empirically investigate whether such “retrieval failures” distort consumption smoothing behavior among Zambian farmers, who derive their income from one annual harvest and then spend it down over ...

This study explores the effects of COVID-19 school closures on labor market outcomes of Canadian parents of school-aged children. Using newly collected data on grade-level-specific school closures ...

Nursing homes certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide care and receive public reimbursement through Medicare and Medicaid are subject to mandatory annual inspections.