Research

Publications

• Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies (with David Lee and Thomas Lemieux) Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 34, pp. 52-78, November 2020.
  • My Interview with the American Economic Association Research Highlights Podcast: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/income-inequality-capital-labor-us.

• HIP, RIP and the Robustness of Empirical Earnings Processes. Quantitative Economics, vol. 10, pp. 1279-1315, July 2019.
  

• Complex-Task Biased Technological Change and the Labor Market. (with Colin Caines and Gueorgui Kambourov) Review of Economic Dynamics,  vol. 25, pp. 298-319, April 2017.
  • Working Paper Version
  • A non-technical summary is given in our Federal Reserve Board Discussion Paper Note: FED Board Note

• Burdett-Mortensen Model of On-the-Job Search with Two Sectors. (with Shouyong Shi) Review of Economic Dynamics,  vol. 19, pp. 108-134, January 2016.
  • Working Paper Version

• Unemployment in the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States. (with Thomas Lemieux) Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 34 (S1), pp. 95-139, January 2016.
  • NBER Working Paper Version

• A Community Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom. (with Rob Fairlie and Philip Oreopoulos) American Economic Review, vol. 104 (8), pp. 2567-91, August 2014.
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• Professor Qualities and Student Achievement. (with Philip Oreopoulos) The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91 (1), pp. 83-92, February 2009.
  • Working Paper Version

• A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement. (with Philip Oreopoulos) Journal of Human Resources, vol. 44 (2), pp. 479 – 494, Spring 2009.
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Working Papers

• Long-Run Sectoral Reallocation, Job-to-Job Transitions, and Earnings Inequality: An Empirical Investigation (with Anton Laptiev and Shouyong Shi) [Revise and Resubmit; version August 2016]

• An Empirical Model of Life-Cycle Earnings and Mobility Dynamics

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Work in Progress

• Statistical Design for Admission Problems with Groupwise Measurement Error (with Kyungchul Song).

• Structural Changes, Labor Mobility and Wage Dispersion (with Shouyong Shi).

• Empirical Directed Search with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Human Capital Accumulation (with Hiro Kasahara and Shouyong Shi).

• Training Programs, Skills, and Human Capital: A Life-Cycle Approach

• Complex-Skill Biased Technological Change  and the Occupational Wage and Employment Structure (with Colin Caines and Guergui Kambourov).

• Construction Boom-Bust Cycles and the Long-Run Labor Market Outcomes of Construction Workers (with Maria Kogelnik, Thomas Lemieux and Mirko Titze).

• The Career Concerns of Colonizers (with Christian Dippel and Guo Xu).

• Ethnic Diversity and Labor Market Outcomes of the Native Born: Evidence from the Canadian Census Master Files. (With Wesley Sze and Haimin Zhang)