Working Papers
Stock Market Returns and Consumption [SSRN Link]
Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Finance
Latest Version: February 2018. Joint with Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani
NBER Working Paper #24262
Media Coverage: MarketWatch
Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Review
Latest Version: December 2017. Joint with David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson
NBER Working Paper #22637
Media Coverage: New York Times; Los Angeles Times; Wall Street Journal; CNN (GPS); The Economist; MIT Technology Review (Cover Story); Freakonomics Radio
Understanding Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Nature versus Nurture in Wealth and Other Economic Outcomes and Behaviors
(Previously circulated as "Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth")
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies
Latest Version: February 2019. Joint with Sandra E. Black, Paul Devereux, and Petter Lundborg
NBER Working Paper #21409
Media Coverage: The Atlantic; FiveThirtyEight; KUT Austin; Dagens industri
A Note on the Effect of Rising Trade Exposure on the 2016 Presidential Election [Appendix to Autor, Dorn, Hanson, and Majlesi “Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure”]
Latest Version: January 2017 (First Version: November 2016)
Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal; Washington Post (Wonkblog); New York Times
Published and Forthcoming
Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets [Online Appendix]
May 2018, Review of Finance
Joint with Sandra E. Black, Paul Devereux, and Petter Lundborg
International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
May 2018, Journal of Development Economics
Joint with Gaia Narciso
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Is It a One-Way Street? [Online Appendix]
January 2018, Journal of Health Economics
Joint with Petter Lundborg
