Working papers:
"Economics of/with Sports"
Do Behavioral Considerations Cloud Penalty-Kick Location Optimization in Professional Soccer: Game Theory & Empirical Testing using Polynomial Regression and ML Gradient Boosting
with Alivia Uribe, Shane Sanders, Justin Ehrlich, and J. James Reade: February 2025, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2025 - Research Paper Competition Winner
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Do Professionals Choke in the Face of Pressure and Distraction?
with David Butler and Robert Butler: NEW, December 2025
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"Macro-Labour"
Accounting for firms in ethnic wage gaps across the earnings distribution
with Van Phan, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes, and Damian Whittard: updated, May 2025, R&R - Economica
PDF | Old version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 15284
Unequal Hiring Wages and their Impact on the Gender Pay Gap
with Tho Pham and Daniel Schaefer: updated January 2026, R&R - Economic Inquiry
PDF | Old version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 17285
Biased Returns to Tenure: The Impact of Firm-Specific Shocks on Base and Non-base Earnings
with Daniel Schaefer and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos: updated, December 2025, R&R - Industrial and Labor Relations Review
PDF | IZA Discussion Paper No. 17489
The Hidden Effects of Company Strikes: Workers Made Idle in UK Engineering and Metalworking from 1920 to 1970
with Robert Hart: NEW, January 2026.
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Early work in progress:
"Economics of/with Sports"
Do Behavioral Considerations Cloud Penalty-Kick Location Optimization in Professional Soccer: Game Theory & Empirical Testing using Polynomial Regression and ML Gradient Boosting
with Alivia Uribe, Shane Sanders, Justin Ehrlich, and J. James Reade: February 2025, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2025 - Research Paper Competition Winner
Do Professionals Choke in the Face of Pressure and Distraction?
with David Butler and Robert Butler: NEW, December 2025
"Macro-Labour"
Accounting for firms in ethnic wage gaps across the earnings distribution
with Van Phan, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes, and Damian Whittard: updated, May 2025, R&R - Economica
PDF | Old version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 15284
Unequal Hiring Wages and their Impact on the Gender Pay Gap
with Tho Pham and Daniel Schaefer: updated January 2026, R&R - Economic Inquiry
PDF | Old version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 17285
Biased Returns to Tenure: The Impact of Firm-Specific Shocks on Base and Non-base Earnings
with Daniel Schaefer and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos: updated, December 2025, R&R - Industrial and Labor Relations Review
PDF | IZA Discussion Paper No. 17489
The Hidden Effects of Company Strikes: Workers Made Idle in UK Engineering and Metalworking from 1920 to 1970
with Robert Hart: NEW, January 2026.
Early work in progress:
- Are inefficient odds within in-play markets profitable for bookmakers? (with Christian Deutscher, David Winkelmann, Ian Mchale, and Matthew Bond)
- Mixing up the Team Mid-Project: Disruption vs Improving Quality (with Christian Deutscher, Marius Otting, Luca De Angelis, and James Reade)
- Gender Bias in Online Job Ads: Uncovering Hidden Preferences (with Tho Pham and Daniel Schaefer)
- Migrant Cohorts and Ethnicity Wage Penalties in Britain (with Andy Chung and Giovanni Razzu)
- Mines (with Stephen Kastoryano, Gerhard Toews, and Paul Telemo)
- Gender differences in responses to intermediate outcomes in contests (with James Reade)
- The market for inferior sports competitions (with James Reade)
- Away Football Supporters (with James Reade and Dominik Schreyer)
- Female managers and gender differences in earnings growth (with Alex Bryson, John Forth, and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos)
- British Housing & Leisure (with Mirko Moro)
- Incidentally Made Idle (with Robert Hart)
- Social and spatial mobility within and across generations (with David Bell)
- Chess Behaviour (with Michal Kowalik and Tim Pawlowski)
- Performance at the TT (with David Butler and Robert Butler)