Research Areas
- Debt, Labor, Technology
Published/Accepted Papers
Peer Financial Distress and Individual Leverage
- Review of Financial Studies 2020, 33 (7), 3348-3390
- Best Paper Award (CAF Summer Conference 2017)
State Minimum Wage Changes and Employment: Evidence from 2 Million Hourly Wage Workers, with Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Barton Hamilton and David Sovich
- Journal of Labor Economics 2021, 39 (3), 673-707
- Media: Fox Business, ABC, St Louis Dispatch, St Louis Business Journals, WashU Source
It's Not So Bad: Director Bankruptcy Experience and Corporate Risk Taking, with Radhakrishnan Gopalan and Todd Gormley
- Journal of Financial Economics 2021, 142 (1), 261-292
- Media: Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable, Oxford Business Law Blog
Hub-and-Spoke Regulation and Bank Leverage, with Yadav Gopalan and Asaf Manela
- Review of Finance 2021, 25 (5), 1499-1545
- Media: Columbia Blue Sky Blog
Second Chance: Life without Student Debt, with Marco Di Maggio and Vincent Yao
- Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
- Media: Vox, Forbes, Market Watch, CNBC, Slate, NPR, Inside Higher Ed
Working Papers
Gig Labor: Trading Safety Nets for Steering Wheels, with Slava Fos, Naser Hamdi and Jordan Nickerson
- 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
- Review of Financial Studies 2021, 34 (10), 4619-4662
Smart(phone) Investing?, with Benjamin Loos, Alessandro Previtero and Andreas Hackethal
- 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
Who Stays and Who Goes? Aggregate Shocks and Firm Employment, with Naser Hamdi, Rodrigo Moser and David Sovich
- Indiana University, Indian School of Business, University of Kentucky
In Short Supply: Efficiency Implications of Rational Attention Allocation, with Xiaoying Li and Jan Schneemeier
- 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