• "The Role of Childcare Challenges in the US Jobs Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” with Jason Furman and Wilson Powell, NBER working paper 28934, June 2021.

• "Comprehensive Approaches to Increasing Student Completion in Higher Education: A Survey of the Landscape,” with Rachel Fulcher Dawson and James X. Sullivan, NBER working paper 28046, November 2020. 

• "Increasing Community College Completion Rates among Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Case Management Intervention,” with William Evans, Brendan Perry, and James X. Sullivan, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, September 2020. 

• "Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence," with Katharine Abraham, Journal of Economic Literature  58(3), September 2020: 585-643 

• "College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security: A Simulation Exercise,” with Brad Hershbein and Luke W. Pardue, AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2020, (Longer version: NBER Working Paper No. 26747  February 2020.) 

• “Exposure on the Job: Who are the Essential Workers Who Cannot Work from Home?,” with Luke Pardue, May 2020. Brookings Institute. 

• “Widening Socioeconomic Differences in Children’s Family Structure,” EconoFact, June 2019.

• "A Cautionary Tale about Emergency Financial Assistance without Services: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation at a Community College,” with William N. Evans, Brendan Perry, and James X. Sullivan, AEA Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 109, May 2019. 

• “Income Inequality and the Decision to Drop Out of High School,” with Phillip Levine, Communities & Banking. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 28(1), winter 2017

• "Should we be concerned about income inequality?” in ed. Michael Strain, "The U.S. Labor Market: Questions and Challenges for U.S. Policy." Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute. June 2016.

• "Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop-Out of High School,” with Phillip Levine, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, March 2016.

• "Would a significant increase in the top income tax rate substantially alter income inequality?” with William Gale and Peter Orszag, Brookings Institution. September 28, 2015.

• “Economic despair: The vicious circle of inequality and social mobility,” with Phillip Levine, Brookings Social Mobility Memos, May 29, 2015.

• "Profiles of Change: Employment, Earnings, and Occupations from 1990-2013.” with Brad Hershbein and Elisa Jacome, The Hamilton Project. April 20, 2015.

• "Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality,” with Brad Hersbein and Lawrence H. Summers, The Hamilton Project. March 30, 2015.

• "Income Inequality and Early, Non-Marital Childbearing,” with Phillip Levine, Journal of Human Resources 49, winter 2014: 1-31.

• “Giving Secondary Earners a Tax Break: A Proposal to Help Low- and Middle-Income Families,” with Lesley Turner, The Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, December 2013. (Proposal introduced into federal legislation by U.S. Senator Murray, March 2014.)

• "Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists,” with David H. Autor and Lawrence F. Katz, Review of Economics and Statistics 90(2), May 2008, 300-323.

• "The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market,” with David H. Autor and Lawrence F. Katz, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2006, 96(2).

• "Intergenerational Mobility for Women and Minorities in the United States,”  Future of Children, Fall 2006, 16(2). 

• "Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices,” with David H. Autor and Lawrence F. Katz, NBER working paper 11628, September 2005.      

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