My research interests include labor economics, economic history, and the economics of education. I study how public policy and educational institutions shape human-capital investment and labor-market outcomes. I have helped construct new datasets using both archival digitization work and textual analysis of historical documents. Below is a list of my research papers, including published work and working papers.
This paper uses a novel measure of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) to study the effects of unexpected changes in policy on the U.S. economy. The paper finds that increases in TPU reduce business investment and economic activity.
This paper studies how the educational provisions of the World War II and Korean War G.I. Bills affected vocational training, educational attainment, and long-run labor-market outcomes.