RESEARCH AREA
The causes and consequences of inequality and poverty, especially the quantification of degree to which labor income inequality is the result of the preexisting heterogeneity present across workers before they enter the labor market versus how much is due to labor market shocks.
RECOMMENDED READING
Decomposing Trends in Inequality in Earnings into Forecastable and Uncertain Components, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming, (with James J. Heckman).