Research

Publications

"Are College Graduates More Responsive to Distant Labor Market Opportunities?" Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming. Revised version of "Educational Differences in the Migration Response of Young Workers to Local Labor Market Conditions," IZA Discussion Paper #1954. [PDF]

"Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation’s Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking," Industrial and Labor Relations Review (January 2007). [PDF]

Working Papers

"Labor Reallocation over the Business Cycle: New Evidence from Internal Migration," with Raven Saks Molloy. (Revise and resubmit, Journal of Labor Economics) [PDF]

"The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk," with Ofer Malamud. (Under review) [PDF]

"Attitudes and Perceptions in the Labor Market for Less Skilled Black Men." (Under review)

Works in Progress

Effects of employer drug testing on labor market outcomes and drug use*

Dynamics of immigrant inflows and native outflows in US cities (with Thomas J. Murray)*

Racial differences in fairness norms and inequality aversion (with John Griffin and David Nickerson)

Effects of early labor market conditions on worker identity and labor force attachment

Mechanisms and implications of the higher migration rates of college graduates

* Paper available upon request.