Job Market Paper

Technological Fragmentation and Labor Market Competition
Job Market Paper

When firms adopt different technologies, workers accumulate system-specific skills that reshape labor market competition. I develop a dynamic model of labor supply with on-the-job technology training, using novel instruments from hospital staffing shocks to separately identify worker preferences and firm screening in the nursing labor market.

Publications

with Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Gentzkow
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 140, November 2025

We develop and estimate a dynamic model of risky prescription opioid use to unpack person- and place-specific drivers of the opioid epidemic and assess the impact of state pain-clinic laws.

Working Papers

with Mert Demirer, Diego Jiménez Hernández, and Sida Peng
Journal of Political Economy, Revise & Resubmit (2025)

We estimate a production function for cloud computing to measure how the GDPR altered firms' use of data and computation, finding that the regulation represents a 20% increase in the cost of data.

The Rise of Healthcare and its Consequences for Local Labor Markets
with Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Notowidigdo
coming soon

We document the role of population aging in the dramatic growth of healthcare employment and trace its implications for female labor force participation, the college gender gap, and the rise of service occupations.

Selected Works in Progress

Medical Graduate Training and the Spatial Distribution of Physicians
with Raymond Han
Physician Shortages and Allocative Mechanisms: Evidence from a Year-Long National Strike
with Sehyun Hong

We study a national resident physician strike in South Korea that disrupted physician supply for fifteen months, providing a rare natural experiment on how patients are prioritized and re-allocated in the face of sustained shortages.

Returns to Scale in Specialist Physician Markets
with Brad Setzler and Ben Vatter

As specialist concentration grows in local markets, patient outcomes appear to improve—we study whether this reflects genuine economies of scale or equilibrium quality distortions through market power.

Outsourcing as Management Technology: Evidence from Nursing Home M&A

I study how nursing homes combine different types of labor—nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses, and registered nurses—to produce care quality, and how these production trade-offs respond to staffing regulation.