Browsing Faculty of Social Sciences by Journals "American economic journal. Applied economics"
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Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World’s Most Exclusive Marriage Market
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Using novel data on peerage marriages in Britain, I find that low search costs and marriage-market segregation can generate sorting. Peers courted in the London Season, a matching technology introducing aristocratic bachelors ... -
Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence. The reform increased ...