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



Accepted and published papers

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

Forthcoming at American Economic Review: Insights


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

Journal of Human Resources

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


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.