• “Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes” with Doruk Cengiz, Attila Lindner, and David Zentler-Munro. (February 2021) NBER Working Paper No. 28399. Conditionally accepted, Journal of Labor Economics  New!

• “Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Account for Round Number Bunching in the Wage Distribution” with Alan Manning and Suresh Naidu. (January 2020) Revision requested, American Economic Review  New!

• “The Impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on Employment: Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey” (July 2020)  New!

• “Debt and Growth: An Assessment of Key Findings on Causality and Thresholds” with Michael Ash and Deepankar Basu. Umass Amherst Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 2017-10 (April 2017).

• “Pooling Multiple Case Studies using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies” with Ben Zipperer. IZA Discussion Paper 8944  (March 2015)
  • Replication data and programs (aggregated CPS data – smaller)
  • Replication data and programs (individual-level CPS data – much larger)

• “Minimum Wages and Aggregate Job Growth: Causal Effect or Statistical Artifact?” IZA Discussion Paper 7674 (October 2013).

• “Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies” with Sylvia Allegretto, Michael Reich and Ben Zipperer. IZA Discussion Paper 7638 (September 2013). Older version from June 2013 available here.

• “A Note on Debt, Growth and Causality”

• “Employee Replacement Costs” with Eric Freeman and Michael Reich.

• “Firm Entry and Wages: Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings Throughout the Retail Sector” with Barry Eidlin and T. William Lester.