I'm a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Essex. I received my PhD from Brown University in 2020.

I'm a labo(u)r and health economist. Much of my research focuses on the health and human capital of Americans and innovation.

nicholas.reynolds@essex.ac.uk


NEW: Tyler Cowen wrote about my forthcoming AER:Insights paper at Marginal Revolution and Bloomberg Opinion.

(Pedantically: my paper doesn't claim to explain the productivity stagnation, but it does propose a unified theory for a lot of other declines. The human capital decline I document also could plausibly explain a portion of the productivity stagnation, but I don't study this.)


Accepted and published papers

The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947

Forthcoming at American Economic Review: Insights

Working paper version.

Increased Mortality of White Americans and a Decline in the Health of Cohorts Born after World War II 

Journal of Human Resources

Working paper version. 

Appendices.

The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences 

with Ina Ganguli (UMass Amherst) and Jeffrey Lin (Philadelphia Fed)

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Working paper version.


New working papers

Patent Text and Long-Run Innovation Dynamics: The Critical Role of Model Selection  

with Ina Ganguli (UMass Amherst),  Jeffrey Lin (Philadelphia Fed) and Vitaly Meursault (Philadelphia Fed)

Submitted

Stunted Adolescence: The Anomalous Growth Pattern of Americans Born in the 1960s

Local Average Cohort Effects

Work-in-progress

The Long-Run Impacts of Patents on Inventors: Evidence from Patent Interferences

with Ina Ganguli (UMass Amherst),  Jeffrey Lin (Philadelphia Fed) and Vitaly Meursault (Philadelphia Fed) and Jake Moore (Berkeley Haas)


Declining Invention Similarity: Theory, Implications, and Evidence

with Ina Ganguli (UMass Amherst),  Jeffrey Lin (Philadelphia Fed) and Vitaly Meursault (Philadelphia Fed)


Deindustrialization as a Double-edged Sword: Employment and Environmental Effects

with Michel Serafinelli (KCL)

Sorting, Neighborhood Effects, and Intergenerational Mobility in Spatial Equilibrium

with Jeffrey Lin (Philadelphia Fed) and Bryan Stuart (Philadelphia Fed)


Old working papers

The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947 

Much longer version of what became the above AER: Insights paper. Also includes results that turned into the "Stunted Adolescence" and "Local Average Cohort Effects" working papers, plus more stuff too.