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.
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
Journal of Human Resources
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
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)
Stunted Adolescence: The Anomalous Growth Pattern of Americans Born in the 1960s
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.