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“A Theory of Endogenous Degrowth and Environmental Sustainability “ With Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, and Matthew Schwartzman. Mimeo, Yale University. This version: April 2025. First Version: May 2024. Earlier version: CEPR Discussion Paper 20007.

“A Stairway to Success: How Parenting Shapes Culture and Social Stratification.” With Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, and Giuseppe Sorrenti. Mimeo, April 2025, London School of Economics, UPenn, University of Lausanne, and Yale University.

FAMILY ECONOMICS

“From Rural Fields to Urban Kitchens:
Structural Change and the Decline of Women’s Work in
India .” With Michael Peters, Pamela Torola, and Lindsey Uniat. Yale University, Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper 1111, Winter 12-17-2024.

“It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting
with Neighborhood and Peer Effects .” With Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, and Giuseppe Sorrenti. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy. Earlier version NBER Working Paper no. 27050.

When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times” With Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, and Giuseppe Sorrenti. Journal of Public Economics 206, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104574.

“Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission .” With Matthias Doepke. Econometrica, 85(5), 1331–1371, 2017. Lead Article.

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

“Growing Like India: the Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth.” With Tianyu Fan and Michael Peters. Econometrica 91, 4 (July, 2023), 1457–1494. Including an unpublished Web Appendix and a Corrigendum (all documents plus replication material is available from the Ectca webpage). Nontechnical summary in VoxDev.

“Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development .” With Michael Peters. NBER Working Paper w29333. Nontechnical summary in VoxDev.

“From Imitation to Innovation:
Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?” Econometrica 90(4), pp. 1615–1654, July 2022. With Michael Koenig, Zheng Song, and Kjetil Storesletten Webpage Appendix.

“Tertiarization Like China.” NBER Working Paper 30272, July 2022. With Xilu Chen, Guangyu Pei, and Zheng Song. Is China becoming a service economy? Annual Review of Economics 15, 2023.

“Aggregate Fluctuations in Adaptive Production Networks” (with Michael Koenig, Andrei Levchenko, and Tim Rogers). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203730119 (September 2022).

BOOK

“Love, Money, and Parenting
How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids.”
With Matthias Doepke. Princeton University Press. February 2019.

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