Research

Working Papers

Selecting for Diverse Talent: Theory and Evidence (with Neil Natarajan)

Whose Bridge to Opportunity and Why? Unpacking the Impacts of Sectoral Job Training (with Namrata Narain)

Workplace Communication as Systemic Disadvantage (with Savannah Noray) [Submitted]

Measuring Statistical, Taste-Based, and Belief-Based Discrimination in AI and Human Decision-Making (with Peter Bergman and Tushar Kundu)

Published

Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, and Crime: Evidence from Chicago. Journal of Urban Economics (2024) 103630. [ Master’s Thesis]

Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers (with David Deming). The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2020) 135(4): 1965-2005.
– Summary at Microeconomic Insights
– Link to Online Appendix
– Podcast Discussions:  Hardly Working – Episode 20 | InequaliTalks – Episode 6
– Selected Media: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Education Next, and the American Enterprise Institute (here and here)

Political Corruption and Public Activism: An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Analysis (with William Abram). Dynamic Games and Applications (2018), 8(1), 1-21. [Undergraduate Thesis]

Research in Progress

Reevaluating Matching in the Age of Big Data
(with Raj Chetty, Lawrence Katz, and Jamie Fogel)

Beliefs or Values? Unpacking the Causes of Political Polarization
(with Savannah Noray and Stephen Zhu)

Artificial Intelligence, Polanyi’s Paradox, and the Growing Tacitness of Work (with Alexander Cline and Savannah Noray)

Policy Writing

Noray, K. (2021). The Labor Market Value of Character Skills. B. Orrell (Ed.). Minding our Workforce: The Role of Noncognitive Skills (1, 55-92). Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute.