• “The effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs: Evidence from the United States using a bunching estimator” with Doruk Cengiz, Attila Lindner and Ben Zipperer. Revision requested, Quarterly Journal of Economics. LSE Center for Economic Performance Discussion Paper 1531 (February 2018)  New!  Older version from April 2017 here.
  • Research Brief 

• “Fairness and Frictions: Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior” with Laura  Giuliano and Jonathan Leonard. Conditionally accepted,  American Economic Review. IZA Discussion Paper 9149 (July 2015)

• “Monopsony in Online Labor Markets” with Jeff Jacobs, Suresh Naidu, Siddharth Suri. NBER Working Paper 24416 (March 2018). Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review: Insights. New!  

• “Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Account for Round Number Bunching in the Wage Distribution” with Alan Manning and Suresh Naidu. (December 2017) New!

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

• “Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes” IZA Discussion Paper 10572 (February 2017). Revision requested,  American Economic Journal – Applied.   Older version from December 2013 here.
  • WCEG Research Brief

• “Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment” with Christopher Boone, Lucas Goodman and Ethan Kaplan. Revision requested,  American Economic Journal – Policy.   IZA Discussion Paper 10439  (January 2017).  
  • VoxEU column

• “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”

• “Spatial Heterogeneity and Minimum Wages: Employment Estimates for Teens Using Cross-State Commuting Zones” with Michael Reich and Sylvia Allegretto.

• “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.