In this dissertation I investigate the quantitative importance of embodied technical change as a source of the sharp rise in wage inequality occurred in the U.S. economy in the past 25 years. The essays in this thesis identify a pair of economic mechanisms that, given an acceleration in...

This paper examines the socio-economic consequences of teenage motherhood for a cohort of British women born in 1970. We employ a number of methods to control for observed and unobserved differences between women who gave birth as a teenager and those who do not. We present results from...