Papers:
(most recently written on top)
16. "The Causal Effect of Public Assistance on Migration: Evidence from Food Security Policies"
with Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley Koo, and Xina Li
(June, 2022)
15. "Compulsory Innovation: How Education Forms Inventors"
with Colin Davison and Chungeun Yoon
(June, 2022)
14. "Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence From H-1B Visa
Denials"
Revision Requested at Review of Economics and Statistics
with Prithwiraj Choudhury, Astrid Marinoni, and Chungeun Yoon
(June, 2022)
13. "Immigration and Invention: Evidence from the Quota Acts"
under review
with Chungeun Yoon
(January, 2020)
12. "Low-Skilled Immigration and Invention: Does Language Matter?"
in: "The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship"
Chapter 5, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
with Chungeun Yoon
11. "Mismatched Supply and Demand"
Science 19 May 2017:
Vol. 356, Issue 6339, pp. 696.
10. "The Effects of High-Skill Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries"
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
this version: January, 2022
with Alexander Gelber and Adam Isen
Other versions: NBER Working Paper #20668
Press Features: US News and World Report (Economic Intelligence Blog) (December 1, 2014)
AEIdeas (November 14, 2014)
9. "Ethnic Complementarities after the Opening of China: How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors"
Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 53, No. 1, Pages 1-31, Winter 2018.
with George Borjas and Ying Shen
Other versions: NBER Working Paper #21096
Press Features: NBER Digest (September, 2015)
The Economist (January 26, 2017)
8. "Prizes and Productivity: How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output"
Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 50, No. 3, Pages 728-758, Summer 2015.
with George Borjas
Other versions: NBER Working Paper #19445; Notre Dame Economics Working Paper #022
Press Features: Business Insider (September 11, 2013)
Slate (September 11, 2013)
Marginal Revolution Blog (September 23, 2013)
Pew Research Center (September 25, 2013)
Inside Higher Ed (October 2, 2013)
The American (October 2, 2013)
Science Careers (from the Journal Science) (October 3, 2013)
NBER Digest (March, 2014)
Wall Street Journal Blog (April 18, 2014)
National Public Radio [Audio Transcript] (Morning Edition, August 18, 2014)
Le Monde (September 10, 2014)
Notices of the American Mathematical Society (January, 2015)
7. "Which Peers Matter? The Relative Impacts of Collaborators, Colleagues, and Competitors"
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 97, No. 5, Pages 1104-1117, December 2015.
with George Borjas
Other versions: NBER Working Paper #20026; Notre Dame Economics Working Paper #021
Press Features: VoxEU (June 13, 2014)
6. "How High Skill Immigration Affects Science: Evidence from the Collapse of the USSR"
Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, 2015.
with George Borjas
5. "Cognitive Mobility: Native Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas"
Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 33(S1), pages S109-S145, July 2015.
with George Borjas
Other versions: NBER Working Paper #18614; Notre Dame Economics Working Paper #019
Press Features: NBER Digest (May, 2013)
4. "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Pages 1143-1203, August 2012.
with George Borjas
Other versions: NBER Working Paper #17800; Notre Dame Economics Working Paper #002
Press Features: Science (Volume 335, Number 6070, 17 February 2012)
Science Careers (from the Journal Science) (March 02, 2012)
NBER Digest (June, 2012)
Inside Higher Ed (February 9, 2012)
Wall Street Journal Blog (February 13, 2012)
Marginal Revolution Blog (November 9, 2012)
The Economist (January 26, 2017)
3. "How Does Child Labor Affect the Demand for Adult Labor? Evidence from Rural Mexico"
Journal of Human Resources, Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 702-735, Summer 2013.
Other versions: Notre Dame Economics Working Paper #016
2. "A Shred of Credible of Evidence on the Long Run Elasticity of Labor Supply"
Economica, Volume 77, Issue 308, pages 637-650, October 2010.
with Orley Ashenfelter and Bruce Schaller
Other versions: NBER Working Paper #15746; IZA Discussion Paper_4810; IRS Working Paper_551
Press Features: NBER Digest (June, 2010)
1. "Are Long-term Wage Elasticities of Labor Supply More Negative than Short-term Ones?"
Economics Letters, Volume 122, Issue 2, Pages 208-210, February 2014.
A version of this paper was circulated previously as "Reference Points, Expectations,
and
Heterogeneous Daily Labor Supply"
Other versions: Notre Dame Economics Working Paper #020
Works in Progress:
"Research Smoothing and Research Complementarities: Evidence from Medical Trial Cancellations"
(work in progress)
with Colin Davison and Ina Ganguli
"The Genealogy of Mathematical Knowledge"
(work in progress)
with George Borjas
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