Works in Progress
"Fragmented Care and the Effect of After-School Care Availability on Students and their Parents"
“The Continuing Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Teenagers”
“The Landscape of Parental Leave-Taking in the United States” (with Daniel Tannenbaum and Brenden Timpe)
“Sick Days and Snow Days: The Long-Term Impacts of Caretaking Inequities” (with Garrett Anstreicher)
Working Papers
"The Parenthood Gap: Firms and Earnings Inequality After Kids" (with Daniel Tannenbaum and Brenden Timpe)
"Post COVID-19 Test Score Recovery: Initial Evidence from State Testing Data." (with Clare Halloran, Claire Hug, and Emily Oster), NBER Working Paper 31113
Media coverage: NBER Digest, The Economist
"COVID-19 mitigation practices and COVID-19 rates in schools: Report on data from Florida, New York and Massachusetts." (with Emily Oster, Clare Halloran, John Schoof, and Diana McLoed) medRxiv, 2021.
Published Research
"Gender Salience and Chat-Based Communication in Teams." AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2025.
Media coverage: New York Times
"COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes." (with Emily Oster), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023.
"Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from US School Districts." (with Clare Halloran, James Okun, and Emily Oster), AER: Insights, 2023.
Media coverage: NBER Digest, The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Yahoo News
"Effectiveness of three versus six feet of physical distancing for controlling spread of COVID-19 among primary and secondary students and staff: A retrospective, state-wide cohort study." (with Polly van den Berg, Elissa Perkins, Isabella Epshtein, Richard Nelson, Emily Oster, and Westyn Branch-Elliman) Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021.
"Disparities in learning mode access among K–12 students during the COVID-19 pandemic, by race/ethnicity, geography, and grade level—United States, September 2020–April 2021." (with Emily Oster, Clare Halloran, John Schoof, Diana McLeod, Haisheng Yang, Julie Roche, and Dennis Roche) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2021, 70(26), p.953.