I am an associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests are in the areas of labour economics, public economics, and family economics.
Curriculum Vitae
Working Papers
How to Weight in Moments Matching: A New Approach and Applications to Earnings Dynamics
Joint with Xu Cheng and Alejandro Sánchez-Becerra. Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies. Cemmap Working Paper CWP13/23. This version June 2023.
Household Labor Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform
(Previously circulated as "Household Labour Supply and Health Care Reform".)Joint with Hanming Fang. Revise and resubmit, Econometrica. NBER Working Paper No. 26350. This version October 2019.
Marriage Market Dynamics, Gender, and the Age Gap
Under revision. PIER Working Paper No. 19-003. This version March 2019.
Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality
Joint with Modibo Sidibé. Under revision. PIER Working Paper No. 19-013. This version July 2019.
Publications
Optimal Taxation, Marriage, Home Production, and Family Labour Supply
Joint with George-Levi Gayle. Published in Econometrica, 2019, vol. 87(1), pages 291-326.
Equilibrium Search and Tax Credit Reform
Published in International Economic Review, 2017, vol. 58(4), pages 1047-1088.
Comparing Charitable Fundraising Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Joint with Steffen Huck and Imran Rasul. Published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, vol. 7(2), pages 326-69.
Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
Joint with Richard Blundell. Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2012, vol. 79(2), pages 481-510.
Means Testing and Tax Rates on Earnings
Joint with Mike Brewer and Emmanuel Saez. Published in Mirrlees, J., Adam, S., Besley, T., Blundell, R., Bond, S., Chote, R., Gammie, M., Johnson, P., Myles, G. and Poterba, J. (eds), Dimensions of Tax Design: The Mirrlees Review (2009), Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Teaching
Some recent problem sets from my graduate labour economics course. Solution code is available by request.
FORTAX
FORTAX is a UK microsimulation tax project. It is centred around the development of the FORTAX library, a micro-simulation tax library. It represents an on-going research project that aims to provide researchers the ability to calculate detailed representations of the UK tax and transfer systems over time, incorporating the complicated rules and interactions.
Contact
Office 601, Department of Economics
The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
133 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email: asheph@econ.upenn.edu