Why have less-educated voters in the United States abandoned the Democratic Party over recent decades? The paper argues that the Democratic Party's evolution on economic policy — specifically its …
PublishedQuarterly Journal of EconomicsOnline 8 Jan 2026Published Apr 2026
This paper documents sharp divergent trends in intergenerational economic mobility by race and class in the United States across the 1978 to 1992 birth cohorts, and investigates the causal mechanisms …
PublishedAmerican Economic ReviewOnline 1 Oct 2025Published Oct 2025
Do individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes in the private sector? Specifically, do business owners sort copartisan workers into their firms, and does employers' …
PublishedReview of Economic StudiesOnline 23 Feb 2026Published Sep 2026
This paper addresses nonresponse bias in surveys — the distortion that arises when survey participants differ systematically from nonparticipants in ways that correlate with the survey's outcomes of …
This paper asks whether informal redistributive pressure — the social obligation to share earned income with kin and social networks — distorts labor supply in low-income communities. The authors …
PublishedReview of Economic StudiesOnline 30 Sep 2025Published Jul 2026
This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in program evaluation: primary outcomes of interest — such as lifetime earnings or long-term employment — are often observed only with lengthy delays, …
This paper develops a continuous-time method for solving heterogeneous-agent models with aggregate shocks by linearizing around a nonlinearly computed stationary equilibrium (extending Reiter's …