Research

Working Papers:

1. "Changes in Mortality and Health Cost: Impact on Human Capital and Retirement Decisions" (with Manoj Atolia and Felix Rioja)

   • Revise and Resubmit, Southern Economic Journal.

2. "Can Dollarization Mitigate the Macroeconomic Cost of Populism? Lessons from Latin America" (with Nicolas Cachanosky and Emilio Ocampo)

   • Revise and Resubmit, World Development.

3. "On the Determinants of Corruption: Evidence from Firm-Level Data" (with Seyedmasood Dastan)

   • Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economics and Finance.

4. "The Effects of Productive vs. Redistributive Fiscal Policies in Developing Countries" (with Felix Rioja)

   • Revision Requested, Economic Modelling.

5. "Assessing the Impact of Informal Sector Employment on Young Less-Educated Workers" (with Javier Cano-Urbina)

6. "Defunding Bridges to Stabalize Debt: Welfare and Distributional Impacts in the Argentinian Case" (with Felix Rioja)

7. Skill-Specificity and Labor Market Dynamics Over the Business Cycle" (with Manoj Atolia)

8. "Close Encounters of a Heterogeneous Kind: Understanding the Differential Impact of Social Distancing on COVID-19 Infections and Deaths" (with David Johnson and Alexi Thompson)

Publications:

1. "The Tyranny of the Ribbon: The Effects of Prioritizing New Infrastructure Over Maintenance" (with Felix Rioja)

   • Public Finance and Management,  Accepted (2024)

2. "Pollution and Labor Market Search Externalities Over the Business Cycle" (with Garth Heutel)

   •  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 151 (June 2023)

   •  NBER Working Paper #27445

3. "The Effect of Corruption on Firm Investment in the Presence of Missing Data (with Seyedmasood Dastan)

   • American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 82(1) (January 2023) pp 79-93.

4. "Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders: A Synthetic Control Analysis" (with Aaron Sun)

   • Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 47 (2023) pp 1-14.

5. "Breaking Bad: When Being Disadvantaged Incentivizes (Seemingly) Risky Behavior" (with David Johnson)

   • Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 47(1) (January, 2021) pp 107-134.

6. "The Welfare Effects of Infrastructure Investment in a Heterogeneous Agents Economy" (with Felix Rioja)

   • B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 20(1) (2020) pp 1-17.

7. "The Backward Hustle: An Experimental Investigation of Tax Code Notches and Labor Supply" (with Doug Norton and Robert White)

   • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 166 (October, 2019) pp 432-445.

8. "Are Online Samples Credible? Evidence from Risk Elicitation Tasks" (with David Johnson)

   • Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 47(3) (2019) pp 377-379.

9. "Moral Hazard in Lending and Labor Market Volatility"  (with Manoj Atolia and Milton Marquis) 

   • Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol. 51(1) (February, 2019) pp 79-109.

10. "Labor Market Volatility in the RBC Search Model: A Look at Hagedorn and Manovskii's Calibration" (with Manoj Atolia and Milton Marquis) 

    • Computational Economics, Vol. 52(2) (August, 2018) pp 583-602.

11. "Public Investment, Debt, and Welfare: A Quantitative Analysis" (with Santanu Chatterjee and Felix Rioja) 

    • Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 56 (June 2018) pp 204-217.     

12. "Asymmetry and the Amplitude of Business Cycle Fluctuations: A Quantitative Investigation of the Role of Financial Frictions" (with Manoj Atolia and Milton Marquis)  

    • Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 22 (March 2018) pp 279-306.

13. "Optimal Public Debt Redux" (with Santanu Chatterjee and Felix Rioja) 

    • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 83 (October, 2017) pp 162-174.

14. "Public Infrastructure Maintenance and the Distribution of Wealth" (with Felix Rioja) 

    • Economic Inquiry, Vol. 55(1) (January, 2017) pp 175-186.

15. "Getting the Most from Matlab: Ditching Canned Routines and Embracing Coder" (with Patrick Henson) 

    • Economics Bulletin, Vol. 36(4) (December, 2016) pp 2519-2525.

Works in Progress

1. "Climate Policy, Job Reallocation, and Unemployment Fluctuations in a Multi-Sector Economy" (with Garth Heutel and Lilia Karnizova)

2. "Optimal Debt in an Open Economy" (with Santanu Chatterjee and Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher)

3. "Remittances and Precautionary Savings" (with Santanu Chatterjee and Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher)

4. "General Purpose Technology (GPT) and Economic Activity" (with Manoj Atolia and Milton Marquis)