Research Areas
- Debt, Labor, Technology
Published/Accepted Papers
Peer Financial Distress and Individual Leverage
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- Review of Financial Studies 2020, 33 (7), 3348-3390
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- Best Paper Award (CAF Summer Conference 2017)
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State Minimum Wage Changes and Employment: Evidence from 2 Million Hourly Wage Workers, with Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Barton Hamilton and David Sovich
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- Journal of Labor Economics 2021, 39 (3), 673-707
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- Media: Fox Business, ABC, St Louis Dispatch, St Louis Business Journals, WashU Source
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It's Not So Bad: Director Bankruptcy Experience and Corporate Risk Taking, with Radhakrishnan Gopalan and Todd Gormley
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- Journal of Financial Economics 2021, 142 (1), 261-292
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- Media: Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable, Oxford Business Law Blog
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Hub-and-Spoke Regulation and Bank Leverage, with Yadav Gopalan and Asaf Manela
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- Review of Finance 2021, 25 (5), 1499-1545
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- Media: Columbia Blue Sky Blog
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Second Chance: Life without Student Debt, with Marco Di Maggio and Vincent Yao
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- Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
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- Media: Vox, Forbes, Market Watch, CNBC, Slate, NPR, Inside Higher Ed
Working Papers
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Gig Labor: Trading Safety Nets for Steering Wheels, with Slava Fos, Naser Hamdi and Jordan Nickerson
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- Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Financial Economics
- NBER Household Finance Summer Institute, CEPR European Conference on Household Finance, Financial Research Association Conference, Labor and Finance Conference (Chicago), RCFS/RAPS Winter Conference, Western Finance Association, American Finance Association, PNC University of Kentucky Finance Conference, ITAM Finance Conference, Northeastern University Finance Conference, HKUST Finance Summer Symposium
- Media: Vox, Cato
Home Equity and Labor Income: The Role of Constrained Mobility, with Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Barton Hamilton and David Sovich
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- Review of Financial Studies 2021, 34 (10), 4619-4662
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External Labor Market Punishment in Finance, with Naser Hamdi, and Avantika Pal
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- CSEF-RCFS conference on finance, labor and inequality, Minnesota junior conference, Michigan State University federal credit union conference, Young Scholars Finance Consortium, University of Florida, University of Ottawa, Indiana University, U Oregon Summer conference, ISB Summer Research Conference
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Who Stays and Who Goes? Aggregate Shocks and Firm Employment, with Naser Hamdi, Rodrigo Moser and David Sovich
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- Indiana University, Indian School of Business, University of Kentucky
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Smart(phone) Investing?, with Benjamin Loos, Alessandro Previtero and Andreas Hackethal
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- NBER Summer Institute on the Economics of IT and Digitization, Financial Research Association conference, Max Planck/NBER workshop on aging and health, SFS Cavalcade, European Finance Association, London Business School Summer Finance Symposium, Boulder Summer Conference, ABFER Annual Conference, Summer Research Conference at ISB, Fintech: Innovation, Inclusion and Risks conference, XKDR-Dvara Research field workshop on household finance
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In Short Supply: Efficiency Implications of Rational Attention Allocation, with Xiaoying Li and Jan Schneemeier
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- Reject and Resubmit at Management Science
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- Outstanding Paper Award in Behavioral Finance (MFA)
- American Finance Association, SFS Cavalcade, China International Conference in Finance, Midwest Finance Association, Paris December Finance Meeting, Risk Management Conference-Singapore, Research in Behavioral Finance Conference
- Media: International Financing Review - Thomson Reuters
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Costs and Benefits of Expanded Unemployment Insurance, with Naser Hamdi and David Sovich
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