Current Research

Working Papers:

“Patent Text and Long-Run Innovation Dynamics: The Critical Role of Model Selection” (with Jeffrey Lin, Vitaly Meursault and Nicholas Reynolds)

“Return on Returns: Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries” (with Caroline Fry)

“Information and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women” (with Monira Essa Aloud, Sara Al-Rashood, and Basit Zafar)

“Closing the Gates: Assessing Impacts of the Immigration Act of 1917” (with Jenny Withrow)

“Exposure to Science and Scientific Careers: Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases and University Lab Employment” (with Raviv Murciano-Goroff)

“Closing Gender Wage Gaps in Ukraine: Composition, Returns and the Minimum Wage” (with Katherine Terrell), Revise and Resubmit, Industrial & Labor Relations Review.

“Price Shocks and Scientific Production: Evidence from University Procurement Contracts” (with Raviv Murciano-Goroff)

“Location and Scientific Productivity: Evidence from the Soviet Brain Drain”

“Do Scientists Care About Kudos? A Field Experiment on Status Rewards in Academia” (with Patrick Gaulé, Eva Guinan and Karim Lakhani)

Research in Progress:

“Did the Soviets Solve the “Productivity Puzzle”? Gender Differences in Science in the Soviet Union”

“The Long-run Impacts of Patents on Inventors: Evidence from Patent Interferences” (with Jeffrey Lin and Nicholas Reynolds)

“How Does Return Migration Impact Knowledge Production? Evidence from China’s Thousand Talents Program” (with Zheng Wang)

“Multi-Disciplinary Researchers: Field Experimental Evidence” (with Kevin Boudreau)