Publications
Publications
2025
Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Test Scores, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming)
Media
Star Advertiser (December 29, 2022)
KITV (December 29, 2022)
Hawaii Tribune Herald (December 29, 2022)
Hawaii Public Radio (December 30, 2022)
Previously circulated as "Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Learning Outcomes"
2024
Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Low Birth Weight in a Nationwide Study in India, Communications Medicine
Male-biased sex ratios, marriage, and household composition in early twentieth-century Hawai‘i, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
Estimating Intergenerational Health Transmission in Taiwan with Administrative Health Records , Journal of Public Economics
2023
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom, Journal of Health Economics
Replacing Medicaid with an Imperfect Substitute: Implications for Health Inequality, Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Intergenerational Health Mobility, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics
2022
Paid Childcare Leave, Fertility, and Female Labor Supply in South Korea, Review of Economics of the Household
Financial Implications of COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests on Independent Laboratories, Journal of General Internal Medicine
WSJ Opinion (June 6, 2022)
KITV (June 10, 2022)
USA Today (June 13, 2022)
Honolulu Star Advertiser (June 14, 2022)
Hawaii Public Radio (June 14, 2022)
2021
Compact for care: how the Affordable Care Act marketplaces fell short for a vulnerable population in Hawaii , BMJ: Global Health
Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines, Journal of Applied Econometrics
The Economics of Health and Migration, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Intra-Familial Transfers, Son Preference, and Retirement Behavior in South Korea, Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Intergenerational Mobility in Self-Reported Health Status in the US, Journal of Public Economics
2020
The Impact of Medicaid on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population: Evidence from COFA Migrants, Health Economics
Civil Beat (April 3, 2019)
UHERO Blog (April 16, 2019)
UHERO Blog (July 27, 2020)
Civil Beat (August 2, 2020)
Civil Beat Op-Ed (August 25, 2020)
The Mortality Effects of Reduced Medicaid Coverage Among International Migrants in Hawaii: 2012-2018, American Journal of Public Health
Politico (April 16, 2020)
Labor Market Adjustment to Third Party Competition: Evidence from Mexico, The World Economy
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the United States: A Latent Variables Analysis, Health Economics
2019
Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates, The Economic Journal
Impact of Financial Incentives on Health Outcomes and Costs of Care among Medicaid Beneficiaries with Diabetes in Hawai‘i, Hawai`i Journal of Medicine and Public Health
Health Investment over the Life-Cycle, Macroeconomic Dynamics
2018
Financial Incentives for Medicaid Individuals with Diabetes: Lessons Learned from HI-PRAISE, an Observational Study and Randomized Controlled Trial, American Journal of Health Promotion
Health and Health Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from the PSID, Economics and Human Biology
Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models, Review of World Economics
2017
Response to "Growth in Earnings and Health: Nothing is as Practical as Good Theory" Review of Income and Wealth
Income Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health, Review of Income and Wealth
An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health with Latent Variable Models, Health Economics
Trade, Migration and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States, Review of World Economics
2016
By the Time I Get to Arizona: Estimating the Impact of the Legal Arizona Workers Act on Migrant Outflows, Economics Bulletin
The Impact of Internal Displacement on Child Mortality in Post-Earthquake Haiti: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis, International Journal for Equity in Health
Within and Cross Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
2014
Investigating the Effects of Furloughing Public School Teachers on Crime in Hawaii, Economics of Education Review
Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID, Social Science and Medicine
2012
Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment: Evidence from El Salvador, European Economic Review
Health Status and the Allocation of Time, Health Economics
What is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects, Applied Economics
2011
Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle, BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
Home-Based Preventative Care in High Risk Dialysis Patients: A Pilot Study, Telemedicine and e-Health
2010
Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
2009
Weight Gain in Adolescents and their Peers, Economics and Human Biology
2008
Selective Migration and Health in the United Sates, 1984-1993, Population Studies
Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health, The Econometrics Journal
2007
Testing for State Dependence with Time-Variant Transition Probabilities, Econometric Reviews
Socioeconomic Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening in Hawaii, Preventing Chronic Disease
Business Cycles, Migration and Health, Social Science and Medicine
2006
Migration, Risk, and Liquidity Constraints in El Salvador, Economic Development and Cultural Change