WORKING PAPERS

Winning the Bread and Baking It Too: Gendered Frictions in the Allocation of Home Production
with Kyle Hancock and Jeanne Lafortune
NBER Working Paper no. 33393 (2025).

Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap
with Christine Exley, Raymond Fisman, Judd Kessler, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma, and Basit Zafar
NBER Working Paper no. 32350 (2024).

Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up
with Natalie Bau, Bryce Steinberg, and David Henning
NBER Working Paper no. 32735 (2024).

Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions when Sons Migrate
with Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, and Alessandra Voena
NBER Working Paper no. 31176 (2023).
(R&R at The Quarterly Journal of Economics)

Supporting Women’s Livelihoods at Scale: Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
with Ioana Botea, Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Markus Goldstein, and Gareth Roberts
NBER Working Paper no. 31625 (2023).

PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTED PAPERS

Measuring Discrimination with Experiments
with Ashley Litwin
In Handbook of Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences, edited by Alex Rees-Jones, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, forthcoming.

Lowering the Playing Field: Discrimination through Sequential Spillover Effects
with Judd Kessler and Xiaoyue Shan
Review of Economics and Statistics (2024): 1-28.

Frictionless one-to-one matching with transfers: Theory
with Pierre-André Chiappori
In Handbook of the Economics of Matching, edited by Yeon-Koo Che, Pierre-André Chiappori, and Bernard Salanié, 1-39. North Holland, 2024.

The Human Capital – ‘Reproductive Capital’ Tradeoff on the US Marriage Market
Journal of Political Economy 132, no. 2 (2024): 337-721.

Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women
Journal of Labor Economics 42 no. 2 (2024): 395-426.

Collateralized Marriage
with Jeanne Lafortune
AEJ: Applied Economics 15, no. 4 (2023): 252-291.

The Myth of the Male Negotiator: Gender’s Effect on Negotiation Strategies and Outcomes
with Jennie Huang
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 202 (2022): 517-532.

Women’s Wellbeing during a Pandemic and its Containment
with Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Manisha Shah, Sreyashi Sharmin, and Alessandra Voena
Journal of Development Economics 156 (2022): 102839.

Older yet Fairer: How Extended Reproductive Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel
with Naomi Gershoni
AEJ: Applied Economics 13, no. 1 (2021): 198-234.

The Power of Time: The Impact of Free IVF on Women’s Human Capital Investments
with Naomi Gershoni
European Economic Review 133 (2021): 103645.

Social Policy Instruments and the Compliance Environment
with Judd Kessler and Monica Singhal
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 192 (2021): 248-267.

Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
with Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, and Kathleen McGinn
Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (2020): 1095-1151.
Full Curriculum Materials Available for free here.

Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception
with Judd Kessler and Colin Sullivan
American Economic Review 109, no. 11 (2019, lead article): 3713-3744.

Trumping Norms: Lab Evidence on Aggressive Communication, Before and After the 2016 Presidential Election
with Jennie Huang
American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings. 107, no. 5 (2017): 163-167

Tying the Double-Knot: The Role of Assets in Marriage Commitment
with Jeanne Lafortune
American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings. 107, no. 5 (2017): 120-124

What Happens the Morning After? The Costs and Benefits of Expanding Access to Emergency Contraception
with Tal Gross and Jeanne Lafortune
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33, no. 1 (2014): 70-93.
(Winner ofthe 2014 Vernon Memorial Awardfor best research article published in JPAM)