My research fields are labor economics and economics of education and child development.

Working Papers:

“Costs of Daycare, Complementarities, and Heterogeneous Productivity of Parenting Time in Child Skill Formation,” (former title: “How Do Mothers Manage? Universal Daycare, Child Skill Formation, and the Parental Time-Education Puzzle”); 2025 August (Submitted) Supplemental Appendix

“Can Academic Redshirting Shrink the Education Gender Gap? Causal Evidence on Student Achievement and Mental Health,” (former titles: “Returns to Starting School Later: Academic Redshirting vs. Lucky Date of Birth” and “The Causal Impact of Academic Redshirting on Student Achievement and Mental Health”); 2025 August (Revised&Resubmitted)

“Does Earlier Return to Work Help Mothers’ Career? Evidence via the Substitution Effect of Parental Leave,” with Anikó Bíró (ELTE KRTK), Lili Márk (CEU), Zsigmond Pálvölgyi (Corvinus U of Budapest); 2025 October (Submitted)

“Mothers’ Return to Work After Childbirth and the Role of Spousal Involvement at Home,” with Gaëlle Simard-Duplain (Carleton U); 2025 February; Policy Report

Selected Work in Progress:

1. “Labor Market Tightness, Wage Inequality and Workplace Amenities,” with Anikó Bíró (ELTE KRTK), João G. da Fonseca (U de Montréal), Attila Lindner (UCL)

2. “Relative Rank Effects in Class, by Gender, Student Achievement and Family Background,” with Zoltán Hermann (ELTE KRTK and Corvinus U of Budapest), Zsuzsanna Vadle (CEU)

3. “Does Leveling the Classroom Prevent Drop-Out? Impact Evaluation of the Complex Instruction Program in Hungary,” with Zoltán Hermann (ELTE KRTK and Corvinus U of Budapest), Eva Holb (ELTE KRTK and Corvinus U of Budapest), Zsuzsanna Vadle (CEU)

4. “Within-Family Inequalities,” with Wendy Carlin (UCL), Sam Bowles (Santa Fe Institute), Anikó Bíró (ELTE KRTK), Alice Kuegler (CEU), et al.

Refereed Publications:

“Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth,” with Anikó Bíró (ELTE KRTK), Márta Bisztray (ELTE KRTK), João G. da Fonseca (U de Montréal); (accepted at) Journal of Labor Economics 2025 /IFS WP #202330; IZA DP #16312; Media Coverage: Telex; Die Presse/

“The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks,” with Patrick Baylis (UBC), Pierre-Loup Beauregard (UBC), Marie Connolly (UQaM), Nicole M. Fortin (UBC), David A. Green (UBC), Pablo Gutierrez-Cubillos (UBC), Samuel Gyetvay (UBC), Catherine Haeck (UQaM), Gaelle Simard-Duplain (Carleton U), Henry E. Siu (UBC), Maria teNyenhuis (Bank of Canada), Casey Warman (Dalhousie U), Canadian Journal of Economics (54) 2022; Special Issue: the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Primary School Reopenings and Parental Work,“ with Pierre-Loup Beauregard (UBC), Marie Connolly (UQaM), Catherine Haeck (UQaM), Canadian Journal of Economics (54) 2022; Special Issue: the COVID-19 Pandemic /Media Coverage: SciTube/

“Do Health Insurers Innovate? Evidence from the Anatomy of Physician Payments,” with Jeffrey Clemens (UCSD), Joshua Gottlieb (U Chicago), Journal of Health Economics (55) 2017