Publications and Accepted Papers
The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap Between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities
Accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper 14462
Media: National Association of Colleges and Employers, NACE Journal
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers (with Costas Cavounidis and Kevin Lang)
Economic Journal, Vol. 134(658), 2024.
Earlier Version: NBER Working Paper 26319
Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience? (with Greg Howard and Yuhao Yang)
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 106(4), 2024.
Pre-Print Version
IZA Discussion Paper 14422
Media: U of I News Bureau, Higher Ed Dive
Firm Decisions and Variation Across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting
Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 40(1), 2022.
Accepted Version
Earlier Version: Geography and Employer Recruiting
Media: U of I News Bureau, MarketWatch, National Association of Colleges and Employers, NACE Journal
Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments
Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 57(5), 2022.
Accepted Version
Employer Screening Costs, Recruiting Strategies, and Labor Market Outcomes: An Equilibrium Analysis of On-Campus Recruiting
Labour Economics, Vol. 55, 2018.
Accepted Version
Earlier Version: IZA Discussion Paper 10912
Media: Harvard Business Review
Dynamic Responses to Labor Demand Shocks: Evidence from the Financial Industry in Delaware
Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 106, July 2018.
Accepted Version
Earlier Version: Upjohn Institute Working Paper 17-276
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v. Wade (with Kevin Lang)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 7(4), 2015
NBER Working Paper No. 19627
The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data Somewhat Different Results (with Kevin Lang)
Labour Economics, Vol. 24, 2013
NBER Working Paper No. 19135
Working Papers
Recruiting Intensity, Hires, and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data (with Eliza Forsythe)
Conditionally Accepted, Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper 14138
“Workhorses of Opportunity”: Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility (with Greg Howard)
Revisions Requested, Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper 15622
Media: Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Brookings, VoxEU, U of I News Bureau
Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions (with Ron Laschever)
IZA Discussion Paper 14622
University Selectivity, Initial Job Quality, and Longer-Run Salary
IZA Discussion Paper 10911
A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers (with Kevin Lang)
NBER Working Paper 22387
Works in Progress
The Effect of Outside Options on Wages: Evidence from Orchestras (with Dana Shaat)
Do Regional Public Universities Affect the Geography of Teacher Shortages? (with Greg Howard)
Interindustry Competition for Talent: Theory and Evidence from Recruiting Strategies
