Most of my recent research concerns the role of information in labor markets.

 

Some questions I have studied include: How does uncertainty affect workers' job search decisions? How are wages set when employers have private information? Does news about the future explain fluctuations in employment? Can fears of prolonged joblessness be self-fulfilling? How do expectations about job loss affect measurement of the welfare cost of unemployment?

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Research Interests

Search, Macroeconomics, Labor

 

Working Papers

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• Inattentive Non-participation and Self-fulfilling Fears of Long-term Joblessness

• Wage Offers and On-the-job Search

        with D. Bernhardt

        [Accepted, Canadian Journal of Economics]

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• Anticipated Productivity and the Labor Market

        with R. Chahrour and S. Chugh

        [Submitted]

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Publications

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• Learning and Job Search Dynamics during the Great Recession (ungated version)

          Journal of Monetary Economics, Jan. 2021

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• Misallocation and Productivity Effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (ungated version)

        with E. Bond, M. Crucini, and J. Rodrigue

        Review of Economic Dynamics, Jan. 2013