A model of how personality traits affect household time and resource allocation decisions
and wages is developed and estimated. In the model, households choose between two …

What are idiosyncratic shocks and how do people respond to them? This paper starts from
the observation that idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but …

The gender education gap has undergone a transition in the post-war period, from favoring
men to favoring women. As a result, in 30% of young American couples, the wife is more …

My dissertation is composed of two essays in Labor Economics. The first chapter examines
how employers learn about workers' unobserved productivity when learning is asymmetric …

We investigate how having children impacts the quality of couples' relationships, a proxy of
the non-material gains from being in a relationship. Using a novel measure of relationship …

We investigate how having children impacts the quality of couples' relationships, a proxy of
the non-material gains from being in a relationship. Using a novel measure of relationship …

This paper analyzes the impact of intra-household bargaining on the labor supply of
heterosexual couples with different divisions of domestic work. The objective is to compare …

Childcare and women's employment decisions are intimately linked. I develop a dynamic
model designed to analyse the effects of childcare subsidies on labour supply, fertility …

This paper introduces and validates a novel measure of relationship quality (RQ), the non-
material gains from being in a relationship. We use survey data from the United Kingdom to …

Why do some couples marry, while others prefer cohabitation? The proposed model does
not assume utility differences between these two states but assumes separation frictions in …