Research

I'm a labor economist working on a variety of topics. Most recently I've been studying employment in healthcare settings like nursing facilities and human capital investment in college.

Work in Progress

• "Enrolling in Bad Times: College Persistence and Labor Market Outcomes" (with Alena Bičáková, Guido Matias Cortes, Kelly Foley, and Jacopo Mazza)
• Staff Shortages at U.S. Nursing Facilities

Refereed Publications

• "The Impact of Recent State and Municipal Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment" Journal of Labor Research, November 2022, 43: 345-368 (with Jennifer M. Mellor)
• "The Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing" American Journal of Health Economics, fall 2020, 6(4): 411-443 (with Daifeng He and Jennifer M. Mellor)
• "Do Financial Incentives Matter? Effects of Medicare Price Shocks on Skilled Nursing Facility Care" Health Economics, June 2020, 29(6): 655-670 (with Daifeng He and Jennifer M. Mellor)
• "Import Competition and Internal Migration" Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2019, 101(1): 44-59 (with Andrew Greenland and John Lopresti)
• "Medicare Hospital Payment Adjustments and Nursing Wages" International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2018, 18(2): 169-196 (with Jennifer M. Mellor)
• "Does Formal Employment Reduce Informal Caregiving?" Health Economics, 2016, 25: 829-843 (with Daifeng He)
• "Estimating Hispanic-White Wage Gaps among Women: The Importance of Controlling for Cost of Living" Journal of Labor Research, September 2015, 36(3): 249-273 (with Melissa McInerney)
• "A Quality-Preserving Increase in Four-Year College Attendance: Evidence from NLS-72 and ELS:2002" Journal of Human Capital, Fall 2015, 9(3): 265-297 (with Bob Archibald and David Feldman)
• "Does Low Wealth Constrain Long-Distance Migration?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 2015, 68(1): 79-119.
• "Immigration and the Human Capital of Natives," Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2015, 50(1): 35-71.
• "The Importance of Cost of Living and Education in Estimates of the Conditional Wage Gap Between Black and White Women," Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2014, 49(3): 695-722 (with Melissa McInerney)
• "The Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms," Journal of Regional Science, March 2014, 54(2): 215-248.
• "The Relationship between Schooling and Migration: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws," Economics of Education Review, August 2013, Volume 35: 24-40.
• "The Effect of School Inputs on Labor Market Returns that Account for Selective Migration," Economics of Education Review, February 2011, 30(1): 39-54.
• "The Economic Impact of Colleges and Universities," Economics of Education Review, October 2007, 26(5): 546-558 (with John Siegfried and Allen Sanderson)