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Publications
Journal Articles
Effects of Workplace Competition on Work Time and Gender Inequality (with Ragan Petrie and Carmit Segal)ILR Review , March 2024, 77 (2), 251-272.
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles (with Carmit Segal and Melissa Spencer )Economica , January 2024, 91(361): 163–187.
Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders? An Analysis of Principals' Effects on Teacher Retention (with Aliza Husain and David Matsa)Journal of Human Resources, September 2023, 58(5): 1480–1522.Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in US Cities (with Carmit Segal and Melissa Spencer )Journal of Urban Economics, September 2022, 131: 103476.
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes (with Suqin Ge and Elliott Isaac)Journal of Labor Economics, May 2022, 40 (S1): S383–S427.
Discussed on Freakonomics Radio Episodes 511 , 503 , 502 , 501
Press mentions include: San Jose Mercury News , Los Angeles Times , Market Watch , The Atlantic , Washington Post , Bloomberg , Inside Higher Ed , CNBC , CBS , Washington Post , Business Insider , Inside Higher Ed
Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality? Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence (with Carmit Segal )Review of Economic Studies, October 2019, 86(5): 2220–2247.
Who Votes for Medicaid Expansion? Lessons from Maine's 2017 Referendum (with David A. Matsa )Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law , August 2019, 44(4): 563–588.
Privacy Protection, Personalized Medicine and Genetic Testing (with Catherine Tucker )Management Science , October 2018, 64(10): 4471–4965.
The Effects of Job Relocation on Spousal Careers: Evidence from Military Change of Station Moves (with Jeremy Burke )Economic Inquiry , April 2018, 56(2): 1261–1277.Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies (with Astrid Kunze )Review of Economics and Statistics , December 2017, 99(5): 769–775.
Playing the Fertility Game at Work: An Equilibrium Model of Peer Effects (with Federico Ciliberto , Helena Skyt Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen )International Economic Review , August 2016, 57(3): 827–856.
Electronic Discovery and the Adoption of Information Technology (with Catherine Tucker )Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , May 2014, 30(2): 217–243.Workforce Reductions at Women-Owned Businesses in the United States (with David A. Matsa )Industrial and Labor Relations Review , April 2014, 67(2): 422–452.
Health Information Exchange, System Size and Information Silos (with Catherine Tucker )Journal of Health Economics , January 2014, 33(1): 28–42.
Financing of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance Plans Before and After Health Reform: What Consumers Don't Know Won't Hurt Them? (with Christine Eibner and Carole Roan Gresenz )International Review of Law and Economics , October 2013, 36:36–47.A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas (with David A. Matsa )American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , July 2013, 5(3): 136–169.
Active Social Media Management: The Case of Health Care (with Catherine Tucker )Information Systems Research , March 2013, 24(1): 52–70.
Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black and Female Employment in Law Enforcement (with Carmit Segal )Review of Economics and Statistics , November 2012, 94(4): 1107–1125.
The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages (with Martha J. Bailey and Brad Hershbein )American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , July 2012, 4(3): 225–254.
Intergenerational Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Attainment (with Lei Zhang )Journal of Law and Economics , May 2012, 55(2):437–476.The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path Journal of Population Economics , July 2011, 24(3): 1071–1100.
Encryption and the Loss of Patient Data (with Catherine Tucker )Journal of Policy Analysis and Management , Summer 2011, 30(3): 534–556.Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership (with David A. Matsa )American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings , May 2011, 101(3): 635–639.
Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies? (with Catherine Tucker )Journal of Political Economy , April 2011, 119(2): 289–324.
Awarded the 2012 Garfield Economic Impact Award and 2011 WHITE Award for the Best Paper on Health IT and Economics
Reprinted in The Economics of Digitization
Press mentions include: Fierce EMR , iHealthBeat
Did the Airline Tariff Publishing Case Reduce Collusion? Journal of Law and Economics , August 2010, 53(3):569–586.The Effects of Welfare Reform on the Academic Performance of Children in Low-Income Households (with Lei Zhang )Journal of Policy Analysis and Management , Fall 2009, 28(4): 577–599.Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records (with Catherine Tucker )Management Science , July 2009 (Lead article), 55(7): 1077–1093.
Motherhood Delay and the Human Capital of the Next Generation American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings , May 2009, 99(2): 154–58.
The Impact of Midwifery-Promoting Public Policies on Medical Interventions and Health Outcomes B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances) , 6(1), 2006, Article 6.
Awarded the 2006 Arrow Prize for Junior Economists and the 2003 Marjorie Lozoff Graduate Essay Prize
Book Chapters and Reports
Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in the U.S. (with Yutong Chen, Carmit Segal, and Melissa Spencer)Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19 , ed. Kenneth Couch, forthcoming, Edward Elgar.Privacy of Digital Health Information The Economics of Privacy: Research Findings and Agenda , eds. Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, forthcoming, NBER and University of Chicago Press.Measuring the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence (with Carmit Segal and Melissa Spencer) IZA World of Labor , December 2020.Women and Leadership Oxford Handbook on Women and the Economy , eds. Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman. New York: 2018, Oxford University Press.Frontiers of Health Policy: Digital Data and Personalized Medicine (with Catherine Tucker )Innovation Policy and the Economy , Vol. 17, eds. Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 2017, NBER and University of Chicago Press.Marriage Timing, Motherhood Timing, and Women's Wellbeing in RetirementLifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health , eds. Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly and Julie Zissimopoulos, 2013, Stanford University Press.
Compensating Wounded Warriors: An Analysis of Injury, Labor Market Earnings, and Disability Compensation among Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (with Paul Heaton and David S. Loughran)Summarized in the 11th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation
Analysis of Financial Support to the Surviving Spouses and Children of Casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (with Paul Heaton and David S. Loughran)Summarized in the 11th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation
Employer Self-Insurance Decisions and the Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as Modified by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (ACA) (with Christine Eibner, Federico Girosi, Amado Cordova, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Nicholas M. Pace, Carter C. Price, Raffaele Vardavas, Carole Roan Gresenz)
Comments
Comment on Information Lost by Catherine Mann in Economics of Digitization , eds. Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, 2015, NBER and University of Chicago Press.
Comment on Fifty Years of Family Planning: Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception by Martha J. Bailey, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , Spring 2013.
Comment on Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship? by Larry E. Jones, Alice Schoonbroodt and Michele Tertilt in Demography and the Economy , ed. John Shoven, 2011, NBER and University of Chicago Press.
Other Writing
Competitive Workplaces Don’t Work for Gender Equality (with Carmit Segal)What Does Shared Governance Mean at U.Va.? The Process of Picking a Provost (with Sarah Turner)CSWEP Newsletter on Ethical Issues in Economics Research, Part II (with Ragan Petrie), Issue III 2015
CSWEP Newsletter on Ethical Issues in Economics Research, Part I (with Ragan Petrie), Issue II 2015
