My name is Nicholas Reynolds.
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.
Accepted and published papers
The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947
Accepted at American Economic Review: Insights
I present evidence of a decline in the health and human capital of Americans beginning with cohorts born after 1947 and continuing until at least mid-1960s cohorts.
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 papers
Mapping Inventions in the Space of Ideas, 1836–2022: Representation and Measurement
with Ina Ganguli (UMass Amherst), Jeffrey Lin (Philadelphia Fed) and Vitaly Meursault (Philadelphia Fed)
April 2024
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.