I'm a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Essex.

I'm a labor and health economist, with a particular focus on the health and human capital of Americans.

nicholas.reynolds@essex.ac.uk

Accepted and published papers

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

Accepted at American Economic Review: Insights

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

Accepted at the 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

Working paper version.

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)

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

Longer version of above AER: Insights paper, with a lot more stuff ... that I'm working on splitting into a couple shorter papers.

Almost working papers

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

Local Average Cohort Effects