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).
(Accepted 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)