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CURRICULUM VITAE

FIELDS OF INTEREST: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Household Finance.

PUBLICATIONS

House Prices and Risk Sharing. Joint with Maria Jose Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen. Journal of Monetary Economics, 57 (2010), pp. 975-987.

Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education. Joint with Maria Jose Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen. Quantitative Economics, 2 (2011), pp. 37-72.
Read about this paper in Investment News: "Elders' education level found to be a factor in risk aversion"

Labor income profiles are not heterogeneous: Evidence from income growth rates. Quantitative Economics, 3 (2012), pp. 177-209.

The Effect of Education on Risky Equity Holdings. Joint with Maria Jose Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Contributions, 12 (1), Article 10, 2012.

Keeping the House or Moving for a Job. Joint with Yuliya Demyanyk, Maria Jose Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary, July 2013.

Correlated Income Shocks and Excess Smoothness of Consumption. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 48 (2014), pp. 41-62.

Moving to a Job: The Role of Home Equity, Debt, and Access to Credit. Joint with Yuliya Demyanyk, Maria Jose Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 9(2), 2017, pp. 149-181.

Why Has Consumption Been So Volatile in the New Millennium? Joint with Yuliya Demyanyk, Daniel Kolliner, Maria Jose Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary, July 2015.

"Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability Among Couples: How Important is Assortative Matching?"
Joint with Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue. Labour Economics, 48, 2017, pp. 168-182.

The Rise and Fall of Consumption in the '00s. A Tangled Tale. Joint with Yuliya Demyanyk, Maria Jose Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen. Economica, 86, 2019, 495-531.

Improving the Measurement of Earnings Dynamics. Joint with Moira Daly and Iourii Manovskii. International Economic Review, 63 (1) 2022, pp. 95-124.

On the Heterogeneity in Family Earnings and Income Dynamics in the PSID. Joint with Iourii Manovskii. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 2018, 108: 292-296.

How Much Consumption Insurance in the U.S.? Joint with Iourii Manovskii. Journal of Monetary Economics, 130 (2022), pp. 17-37.

Inequality in Russia over Time and over the Life Cycle. (Forthcoming at Scandinavian Journal of Economics) Joint with Maxym Bryukhanov.

A Guide to Estimating the Canonical Income Process in Quasidifferences. (Forthcoming at Macroeconomic Dynamics) Joint with Francis Chiparawasha


WORK IN PROGRESS

Income Dynamics and Consumption Insurance. Joint with Iourii Manovskii. Manuscript.

Excess Smoothness of Consumption in an Estimated Life Cycle Model. Manuscript.


PAST TEACHING

ECON 403     Economic Growth (Undergrad.):    Fall 2010

ECON 581     Macroeconomic Theory I (Graduate):    Fall 2014

ECON 385     Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory II:    Fall 2014