Journal Publications

Work-Care Balance Over the Day and the Gender Wage Gap " (with German Cubas and Pedro Silos), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Forthcomig.

Firm Performance and the Volatility of Worker Earnings (with Kristin McCue, Holly Monti, and Brooks Pierce), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 36 No. S1, January 2018.

Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among Couples (with Kristin McCue and Dmytro Hryshko), Labour Economics, Vol. 48, August 2017.

Specialization Then and Now: Marriage, Children, and the Gender Earnings Gap across Cohorts (with Kristin McCue), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 31 No. 1, Winter 2017.

Evolution of the Marriage Earnings Gap for Women" (with Kristin McCue), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 106 No. 5, May 2016.

Selection and Specialization in the Evolution of Marriage Earnings Gaps (with Kristin McCue), The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2(4), 2016. [Working Paper version]

Men, Women, and Machines: The Impact of Trade on Gender Inequality (with Gergely Ujhelyi and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 106, January 2014. [Online Appendix] [NBER Working Paper]

Trade Liberalization and Gender Inequality (with Gergely Ujhelyi and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 103 No. 3, May 2013.

Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s (with Jim Airola, Ernesto Aguayo, and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez), Research in Labor Economics, 38, December 2013. [VoxEU Summary]

HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Belgi Turan), Journal of Population Economics, Vol.26(3), July 2013. [VoxEU Summary]

Recent Trends in Earnings Volatility: Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data (with Sule Celik, Kristin McCue, and Jesse Thompson), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol.26(3), July 2013.

Wage Inequality in Post-Reform Mexico (with Jim Airola), Journal of Income Distribution, Vol 17. No. 1, March 2008.

Changes in Labor Force Participation in the United States (with Simon Potter), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20. No. 3, Summer 2006.

Technical Change and the Demand for Skills during the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1891-1912 (with Aimee Chin and Peter Thompson), Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 88. No. 3, August 2006.

The Expansion of College Education in the U.S. 1940-1990: Is There Evidence of Declining Cohort Quality? (with Dae Il Kim and Francis Vella), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 43. No. 2, April 2005.

Labor Market Dropouts and Trends in Wages of Black and White Men, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 56. No. 4, July 2003.

Current Unemployment, Historically Contemplated (with Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (2002)

Employment of Women and Demand-Side Forces, Research in Labor Economics Vol. 20, Solomon Polachek, ed. (JAI Press, 2001)

Markov Switching in Disaggregate Unemployment Rates (with Marcelle Chauvet and Simon Potter), Empirical Economics: Special Issue on Advances in Regime-Switching Models, 27(2), 2002.

The Rise of Female Professionals: Are Women Responding to Skill Demand? (with Sandra Black), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 90. No. 2, May 2000.

Wage Inequality and Demand for Skill: Lessons from Five Decades, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 52. No. 3, April 1999.

The Effects of Rising Female Labor Supply on Male Wages (with Dae Il Kim), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 17. No. 1, January 1999.

Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply (with Kevin M. Murphy), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 15. No. 1, January 1997.

Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill (with Kevin M. Murphy and Brooks Pierce), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 101. No. 3, June 1993.

Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply (with Kevin M. Murphy), Industrial Relations Research Association 44th Annual Proceedings, (1993).

The Decline in Male Labor Market Participation: The Role of Declining Market Opportunities, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107. No. 1, February 1992

Unemployment, Nonemployment, and Wages: Why Has the Natural Rate Increased Through Time? (with Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2 (1991)

Book Chapters and Other Publications

Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-State Tuition at State Colleges and Universities (with Aimee Chin), in Latinos in the Economy: Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond, (Springer, 2011). [NBER working paper version]

Black-White Employment Differential in a Tight Labor Market in Black Employment in a Tight Labor Market, William Rodgers and Robert Cherry, eds. (Russell Sage, 1999)

Explaining the Recent Divergence in Payroll and Household Employment Growth (with Simon Potter), Current Issues, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Vol. 5. No. 16, December 1999

Relative Wage Trends, Women's Work, and Family Income AEI Studies on Understanding Economic Inequality, (American Enterprise Institute, 1996)

Inequality in Labor Market Outcomes (with Kevin M. Murphy), Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, (January 1995)

Relative Wages and Skill Demand 1940-1990 (with Kevin M. Murphy), Labor Markets, Employment Policy and Job Creation. Alec Levenson and Lewis Solomon, eds. (Westview Press, 1994).

Accounting for the Slowdown in Black White Wage Convergence (with Kevin M. Murphy and Brooks Pierce), in Workers and Their Wages: Changing Patterns in the U.S. (American Enterprise Institute, 1991)