RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

Labor Market Transitions over the Business Cycle: Gender Differential in the United States from 2001 to 2020.Feminist Economics (forthcoming).

Racial Disparities in Unemployment during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recovery: The “Stubborn,” the “Hiccup,” and the “Stall”. Economic Inquiry (2023). (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie)

"The Implications of Optional Practical Training Reforms on International Student Enrollments and Quality." Economic Inquiry (2022). (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Kevin Shih)

"The evolving impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on gender inequality in the US labor market: The COVID motherhood penalty" Economic Inquiry (2022). (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie). 2022 Best Article Award for Economic Inquiry

       NBER Working Paper No. 29426

       Media Coverage New York Times

"Early Evidence of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment" Journal of Public Economics (2020). (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie

        NBER Working Paper No. 27246 

Anywhere They Go, We Go: Immigration Inflow’s Impact on Co-Ethnic Natives”  Southern Economic Journal  (2020). (with Tao Song)

"OPT Policy Changes and Foreign Born STEM Talent in the US" Labour Economics (2019). (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Delia Furtado)

"First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions" IZA Journal of Development and Migration (2018). 

"Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession" Research in Labor Economics (2018). (Lead Article).  (with Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie)

"The business cycle, labor market transitions by age, and the great recession" Applied Economics (2017). (with Kenneth Couch)

WORKING PAPERS

"Do Remittances Reduce Market Work and Housework? Children’s Labour Supply Responses to Weather Shocks." (with Andres Cuadros-Meñaca)

“Effect of Employee Ownership on Work-From-Home and Employment Response to Covid-19 Shock.” (with Douglas Kruse, Joseph Blasi, and Richard Freeman)

WORK IN PROGRESS

“China’s Left-Behind Children: A New Look on the Role of Intergenerational Care.” 

“Student Career Choice in Information Science and Technology Field: Evidence from China.” 

“The Effect of Universal Basic Income on Work Effort.”