Working Papers

Firm-Worker Matches: Experience or Inspection Goods? [draft: May 2026]

(with Guido Menzio and Giovanni Topa)

Firms as Learning Environments: Implications for Earnings Dynamics and Job Search [draft: January 2026] (R&R at Review of Economic Studies)

Subjective Earnings Risk [draft: April 2025] [appendix] (accepted at Review of Economic Studies)

(with Andrew Caplin, Eungik Lee, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Johan Sæverud)

The Impact of Racial Segregation on College Attainment in Spatial Equilibrium [draft: November 2024] (reject & resubmit at Review of Economic Studies)

(with Julian Kozlowski and Hannah Rubinton)

Inferring Subjective Earnings Risk from Labor Market Outcomes: A Life-Cycle Search Model Approach [draft: September 2024]

(with Andrew Caplin, Eungik Lee, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Johan Sæverud)

Publications

Time Averaging Meets Labor Supplies of Heckman, Lochner, and Taber [draft] [published version], Review of Economic Dynamics (2026)

(with Sebastian Graves, Lars Ljungqvist, and Thomas J. Sargent)

The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market [draft] [published version], Journal of Monetary Economics - Special Issue on Labor Market Dynamics: Drivers and Consequences (2025)

(with Guido Menzio and David Wiczer)

Real Wage Growth at the Micro Level, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (2024) [published version]

(with Elisabeth Harding)

Labor Force Exiters Around Recessions: Who Are They?, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (2023) [published version]

Pandemic Recession: L or V-Shaped?, Quarterly Review (2020) [draft] [NBER working paper][published version]

(with Guido Menzio and David Wiczer)

Works in Progress

The Value of a Job [slides]

(with Andrew Caplin, Søren Leth-Petersen, Johan Sæverud, Chris Tonetti, and Gianluca Violante)