Working Papers
What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence From Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments, with Jakob R. Munch and Mette Rasmussen
Revised and Resubmitted (second round), Journal of Political Economy; NBER version
Coverage: Washington Post
Firm Premia and Match Effects in Pay vs. Amenities, with Mette Rasmussen and Evan K. Rose
Under Review; NBER version
Coverage: Becker Friedman Institute, The Pie [podcast], Chicago Booth Review
Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects, with Emilie Vestergaard
Under Review; NBER version
Coverage: Marginal Revolution, The Economic Times, The Register, Ars Technica, Computerworld, The Guardian, Fortune, Quartz, American Enterprise Institute, Chicago Booth Review [podcast], SF Examiner, Financial Times, CNBC, WSJ, Der Spiegel, NPR
Gaining Steam: Technology Diffusion with Recurring Lock-in, with Richard Hornbeck, Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu, and Martin Rotemberg
Revised and Resubmitted, Journal of Political Economy; NBER version
Data: Historical Census of Manufactures Data Portal
Coverage: NBER Digest
Reskilling and Resilience, with Pernille Plato
Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Review: Insights; NBER version
Coverage: NPR, Becker Friedman Institute
Robot Adoption and Labor Market Dynamics
Publications
Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability, with Pernille Plato and Jakob R. Munch
American Economic Review, Vol. 132, No. 5 (May 2025); Replication archive
Coverage: Becker Friedman Institute, Chicago Booth Review [video], Forked Lightning, University of Copenhagen, Chicago Booth Review [podcast], AEA Research Highlight
Historical Differences in Female-Owned Manufacturing Establishments: The United States, 1850-1880, with Ruveyda Gozen, Richard Hornbeck, and Martin Rotemberg
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 115: 483–88 (May 2025); Replication archive
The Unequal Adoption of ChatGPT Exacerbates Existing Inequalities Among Workers, with Emilie Vestergaard
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 122, No. 1 (January 2025); Replication archive
Subsumes working paper, The Adoption of ChatGPT
Coverage: Becker Friedman Institute, The Pie [podcast], Wage Against the Machine, IZA World of Labor, Charter, The Economist (#1), Marginal Revolution, The Economist (#2), MIT Sloan Management Review, Chicago Booth Review, Chicago Booth Review (#2) [video], CNBC. In Danish: Børsen, Berlingske
Globalization, Flexicurity and Adult Vocational Training in Denmark (October 2019), with Jakob R. Munch Published in World Trade Organization book Making Globalization More Inclusive: Lessons from Experience with Adjustment Policies
Works in Progress
Integrators: The Firm Boundaries of Capital-Skill Complementarity, with Gert Bijnens and Stijn Vanormelingen