Address: Department of Economics

Earned Degrees:

B.A. University of California, Irvine, 1989

M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000

 

Fields of Concentration:

Primary Field: Labor Economics

Secondary Fields: Econometrics and Public Finance

 

Dissertation Title:

“Three Essays on Mexican American Educational Attainment”

Committee Chair: Professor Steve Trejo

 

Teaching Experience:

Lecturer:  Upper Division Microeconomics, Fall, 1993 - Fall, 1994, International Trade, Summer 1994.

Teaching Assistant: Introductory Microeconomics & Introductory Macroeconomics, Academic Years 1991-93, 95-96.

 

Academic Papers:

“Estimating the Potential Impact of Combined Race and Ethnicity Reporting on Long-Term Earnings Statistics,” with John Abowd, Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century (eds. Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark A. Loewenstein), 2026.

 

“Mixed Effects Methods for Search and Matching Research,” with John Abowd, Revue Economique, 2024.

 

“Reconciling Trends in U.S. Male Earnings Volatility: Results from Survey and Administrative Data,” with John Abowd, Christopher Bollinger, Michael Carr, Chales Hokayem, Robert Moffitt, Emily Wiemers, Sisi Zhang, and James Ziliak, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2022.

 

“Male Earnings Volatility in LEHD before, during, and after the Great Recession,” with John Abowd, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2022.

 

“U.S. Long-Term Earnings outcomes by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Place of Birth,” with John Abowd and Hubert Janicki, Quantitative Economics, 2022.

 

“United States Earnings Dynamics: Inequality, Mobility, and Volatility,” with John Abowd and John Sabelhaus, Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth (eds. Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Janet Gornick, Barry Johnson, Arthur Kennickell), 2022.

 

“Total Error and Variability Measures for the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics in On the Map,” with Andrew Green, Lars Vilhuber, and John Abowd, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2021.

 

“Modeling Endogenous Mobility in Wage Determination,” with John M Abowd and Ian M. Schmutte, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2019.

 

“Releasing Earnings Distributions Using Differential Privacy: Disclosure Avoidance System for Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO),” with Andrew Foote and Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2019.

 

“Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data,” with John Abowd and Nellie Zhao, Journal of Labor Economics, 2018.

 

“Noise Infusion as a Confidentiality Protection Measure for Graph-Based Statistics,” with John M Abowd, Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS), 2016.

 

“Persistent Inter-Industry Wage Differences: Rent Sharing and Opportunity Costs,” with John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Paul Lengermann, and Sebastien Roux, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012.

 

“Matching, Reallocation, and Changes in Earnings Dispersion,” with Simon Burgess and Julia Lane, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009.

 

“Using Worker Flows to Measure Firm Dynamics,” with Gary Benedetto, John Haltiwanger and Julia Lane, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2007.

 

“The Link Between Human Capital, Mass Layoffs and Firm Deaths,” with John M Abowd and Lars Vilhuber, Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data (eds. Timotht Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark Roberts), University of Chicago Press, 2007.

 

“The LEHD Infrastructure Files and the Creation of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators,” with John M Abowd and Bryce E. Stephens, Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data (eds. Timotht Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark Roberts), University of Chicago Press, 2007.

 

“The Relationship Between Human Capital, Productivity and Market Value: Building Up from Microeconomic Evidence,” with John Abowd, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Julia Lane, Paul Lengermann, Kristin McCue, and Kristin Sandusky, in Measuring Capital in the New Economy (eds. Carol Corrado, John Haltiwanger and Daniel Sichel), University of Chicago Press, 2005.

 

Work in Progress / Recent Working Papers:

“Detecting Person Identifier Misuse: Understanding the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) Pseudo-PIK Process”, with Stephen Tibbets, CES Technical Notes Series, 2026.

 

“Understanding the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) Linked-Job Identifier (FID), with Stephen Tibbets, CES Technical Notes Series, 2026.