Maxim Massenkoff


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Bio

I am an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. I work on topics in labor economics, crime, and behavioral economics.

Curriculum Vitae

Email: maxim.massenkoff@nps.edu


Working Papers

Racial inequality in the U.S. unemployment insurance system

(with Daphné Skandalis and Ioana Marinescu)

NBER Working Paper No. 30252

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What happens in vagueness

(with Peter DeScioli, Kyle Thomas, and Steven Pinker)

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Family Formation and Crime

(with Evan Rose)

Revision requested, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

NBER Working Paper No. 30385

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Coverage: Marginal Revolution, Mother Jones, The Economist

A New Racial Disparity in Traffic Fatalities

(with Aaron Chalfin)

NBER Working Paper No. 30636

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Job search and unemployment insurance: New evidence from claimant audits

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Publications and Accepted Papers

Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions

(with Nathan Wilmers)

Accepted, Journal of Labor Economics

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Wage Stagnation and the Decline of Standardized Pay Rates, 1974-1991

(with Nathan Wilmers)

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023

Best Paper Award, Academy of Management OMT Division, 2020.

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Online Appendix | AEA Research Highlight

Activity-adjusted crime rates show that public safety worsened in 2020

(with Aaron Chalfin)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022

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Coverage: Washington Post, Slate

Working paper

Pre-PhD

Kill or die: Moral judgment alters linguistic coding of causality

(with Julian De Freitas, Peter DeScioli, Jason Nemirow, and Steven Pinker)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017

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Equity or equality? Moral judgments follow the money

(with Peter DeScioli, Alex Shaw, Michael Bang Petersen, and Robert Kurzban)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014

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How universal is the Big Five? Testing the five-factor model of personality variation among forager–farmers in the Bolivian Amazon

(with Michael Gurven, Christopher von Rueden, Hillard Kaplan, and Marino Lero Vie)

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2013

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Work in Progress

The Determinants of Disparities in Reservation Wages

(with Daphné Skandalis)

Firm Segregation and the Black-White Wage Gap

(with Nathan Wilmers)

Nudges to Promote Truthful Earnings Reporting

(with Andrew Johnston)


Teaching

Mistakey paper

Avi Feller and I wrote a problematic evaluation for his Program Evaluation course at the Goldman School. There are ten deliberate conceptual mistakes. (solutions)

Button

Liz Fosslien and I made a confusion button, which allows students to anonymously signal when they're confused in lecture. The lecturer page shows how many people press the button every minute. If you're curious to try this out in your class, email me and I'll be happy to set it up for you.

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