Publication List

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Journal Articles
(2025) "Using earnings history to characterize quality of nonemployee employment." With Berdie and Welburn. With Daniel Schwam. Monthly Labor Review, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, February 2025. Link

 

(2024) "What Makes a Reparation Successful? A Discussion to Inform Design of Reparations to Black Americans." With Berdie and Welburn. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 10 (2). Link

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(2023) "Mapping scientists’ career trajectories in the survey of doctorate recipients using three statistical methods." Scientific Reports, 13 (8119). With Rennane, Acheson-Field, and Zaber. Link.

(2023) "Worker Mobility in Practice: Is Quitting a Right, or a Luxury?" Journal of Law and Political Economy, 3(1). Link.

(2022) "Leak or Link? The Overrepresentation of Women in Non-tenure track Academic Positions in STEM." PLoS ONE, 17(6). With Rennane (lead), Acheson-Field, Gahlon, and Zaber. Link.

(2022) "Alternative Pathways to Retirement in a Household Context." Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 22 (6). With Carman and Brown. Link.

(2021) "CPS Nonresponse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Explanations, Extent, and Effects." Labour Economics, 72 (10). With Ward (lead). Link.

(2020) "Who Helps the Unemployed? Workers' Receipt of Private and Public Cash Transfers," IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 9(1). Link.

(2020) "Moonlighting to the Side Hustle: The Effect of Working an Extra Job on Household Poverty for Households with Less Formal Education." Families in Society, 101(3):324-339. With Scott (lead) and Stanczyk. Link.

(2019) "Parents of an Unemployed Child: Labor Supply, Consumption, and Savings Effects." IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 8(1)  1121-1166. With Wenger. Link.

 

 

RAND Reports
(2022) "Accounting for Black-White Wealth Differences: A Stylized Model of Wealth Accumulation." RR-A1259-1.

(2021) "What are the Skills Required to Attain a Good Job?'' With Schwam and Zaber. RR-A271-3.

(2021) "Compensation and Benefits for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workers: A Comparison of the Federal Government and the Private Sector." RR-4267-OSD.

(2020) "Benchmarks for Success: Expected Short- and Long-term Outcomes of National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Participants." RR-A271-1.

(2020) "Supporting a 21st Century Workforce in Puerto Rico: Challenges and Options for Improving Puerto Rico's Workforce System Following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017." With Gonzalez (lead) et al. RR-2856-DHS.

(2020) "Challenges and Opportunities for the Puerto Rico Economy: A Review of Evidence and Options Following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017." With Bond (lead) et al. RR-2600-DHS
 

 

Testimony, Essays, and Reports

(2025) "Fixing Unemployment Insurance." The Milken Review, January 2025. Link.

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(2024) Hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee. "Hearing on Expanding on the Success of the 2017 Tax Relief to Help Hardworking Americans." Written testimony. Link to hearing.

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2023) Hearing of the Joint Economic Committee. "Aging Americans and a Waning Workforce: Demographic Drivers of Our Deficit." Written testimony. Link to hearing.

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(2023) Hearing of the Economic Policy Subcommittee of United States Senate Banking Committee. "Child Care Since the Pandemic: Macroeconomic Impacts of Public Policy Measures." Written testimony. Link to hearing.

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(2022) "Economic Security for the 21st Century." National Academy of Social Insurance. Link.

(2021) "Cash Remains King." With Bradley Hardy, in The Future of Building Wealth: Brief Essays on the Best Ideas to Build Wealth for Everyone. Eds. Ray Boshara and Ida Rademacher, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and The Aspen Institute. Link.