Research

Working Papers

1. Lender Heterogeneity in Home Mortgage Lending Evidence from HMDA Data in Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic (with Venoo Kakar).

2. Threshold-Based Mixed Bundling (with Kirill Chernomaz and Diego Escobari).

Publications

1. Racial Differences in Access to Mortgage Lending: Comparison Across Major Institutions, SN Business & Economics, Volume 2, Issue 8, pages 1-26, August 2022. (with Nishanlang Khonglah).

2. Why did Rich Families Increase their Fertility? Inequality and Marketization of Child Care, Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 23, Issue 4, pages 427-463, December 2018. (with Moshe Hazan, Oksana Leukhina, David Weiss, and Hosny Zoaby).

Media coverage:

• Careers and Families of High-Skilled Women in the Age of Inequality

• Career Women and the Family - a New Perspective on the Role of Minimum Wage

• Quartz (part 1)

• Quartz (part 2)

3. Gender Wage Gap Accounting: The Role of Selection Bias, Demography, Volume 52, Issue 5, pages 1729-1750, October 2015, (with Oksana Leukhina and Seik Kim).

4. On the Practice of Bundling a Free Gift with a Threshold Purchase, International Journal of Business and Social Science, Volume 3 No. 16, Pages 17-28. Special Issue, August 2012 (with Kirill Chernomaz and Diego Escobari).

5. On the Time Allocation of Married Couples since 1960, Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 33, issue 4, Pages 491-510, December 2011 (With Oksana Leukhina).

6. The Role of Mortality in the Transmission of Knowledge, Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 15, Issue 4, pages 291-321, December 2010 (with Oksana Leukhina).

7. Demographic Transition and Industrial Revolution: A Macroeconomic Investigation, Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 424-451, April 2010 (with Oksana Leukhina).

8. To Work or Not to Work: Did Tax Reforms Affect Labor Force Participation of Married Couples? The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 9, Issue 1, July 2009 (Contributions), Article 28 (with Oksana Leukhina).

Book Chapters

1. Pricing and Travelers' Decision to use Frequent Flyer Miles: Evidence from the US Airline Industry, In Connor R. Walsh (Ed.) Airline Industry: Strategies, Operations and Safety, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. 2011. pp. 213-231. ISBN: 978-1-61122-079-7 (with Kirill Chernomaz and Diego Escobari).