New Technology and the Skill Premium — Slides

Skilled workers thrive during times of fast-paced technological change. This explains the behavior of the skill premium over time, across regions, and age groups.

Joint with Aakash Kalyanyi and Tarek Hassan

In Heels and Backwards — Slides

Using data from Sweden and Norway, we document that women are overqualified for their jobs. This is due to rising barriers at the top, which create a slippery slope. What are the consequences of these barriers and their decline over time?

Joint with David Autor, Simen Markussen, Martin Nybom, Knut Roed, and Anna Salomons

Automation and Rent Dissipation

When firms invest real resources to automate away workers who earned rents, they engage in an inefficient form of rent dissipation.

Joint with Daron Acemoglu

Optimal Gradualism

When people face adjustment frictions, gradual shocks create less adverse distributional effects in the short run. We provide formulas for the optimal level of gradualism of trade and technology shocks.

Joint with Nils Lehr

The Price of Intelligence

How should socially responsible AI companies price and deploy intelligence on tap?

Joint with Nils Lehr

Structural Unemployment — Dormant

Automation, computers and technology might create temporary unemployment, especially during recessions.

The Mounties & the Origins of Peace — Dormant

The mounties stopped Canadians (and hockey players) from developing a culture of violence.

Bushes and Bullets — Dormant

Cocaine brought violence and corruption to Colombia, especially during periods of high demand and in areas suitable for cultivation.

Joint with Daniel Mejia