Publications

“Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size”

- Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42:2, 549-589. [PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]

coverage: [WirtschaftsWoche (in German)] [IZA Newsroom summary]

“The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers’ Long-Term Skills”

- The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5): 1028-1045. [PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]

[Nada es Gratis blog entry (in Spanish)]

“Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment“

- The Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82(1), 126-174. [PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]

[On teaching Japanese American Internment to 8th graders using data]

“Who Gets their First Job at a Large Firm? The Distinct Roles of Education and Skills”

- AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111: 465-69. [PDF, Replication, Journal Link]

“The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results”

(with David A. Jaeger, Krzysztof Karbownik, Marta Martínez-Matute, John Nunley, R. Alan Seals, and 37 others)

- Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, 2021, Issue 79: 152-217.

[PDF, Journal Link] [IZA DP No. 14419] [Nada es Gratis blog entry (in Spanish)]

Working Papers

“Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms” (with Fernando Saltiel)

[PDF, updated March 2024] [CESifo WP No. 11031, March 2024] [CAGE WP No. 670, June 2023] [IZA DP No. 14473, June 2021]

- Revised and resubmitted (2nd round) at Journal of Labor Economics

“One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap“

(with Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio, and Matteo Paradisi) VisitINPS Fellowship Program

[PDF, updated April 2024]

coverage: [Kellogg Insight]

“The Role of Firms and Job Mobility in the Assimilation of Immigrants: Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990–2019" (with Shmuel San)

[PDF, updated January 2024] [IZA DP No. 16389, August 2023]

coverage: [La Mañana (in Spanish)]

“Mafias and Firms” (with Marco De Simoni, Luigi Guiso, Rocco Macchiavello, Domenico Marchetti, and Mounu Prem)

[PDF, March 2024] [CEPR DP No. 18982, March 2024] [IZA DP No. 16893, March 2024] [CESifo WP No. 11043, March 2024]

“Unbundling the Effects of College on First-Job Search: Returns to Majors, Minors, Internships, Study Abroad, and Computer Skills”

(with Carolina Bussotti, John M. Nunley and R. Alan Seals)

[PDF, April 2024] [slides]

Selected Work in Progress

“Intangible Capital, Brand Transfers, and Labor“

(with Carolina Bussotti, Matteo Paradisi, and Liangjie Wu) VisitINPS Scholars Program

“Economic Assimilation, Cultural Assimilation, and International Migration: Evidence from Israeli Administrative Data”

(with Kobi Mizrahi and Shmuel San) UniCredit Foundation Modigliani Research Grant

“The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Skilled Mass Migration on Innovation and Growth“

(with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Maor Milgrom, and Shmuel San)