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
Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies
Latest Version: December 2017. 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