Adam Isen
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. Please click here for my CV and see below for working and published papers. I can be reached at adam.isen@gmail.com.
Working Papers
The Effect of Financial Resources on Homeownership, Marriage, and Fertility: Evidence from State Lotteries, with George Bulman and Sarena Goodman
The Windfall-Income Donation Norm, with Michalis Drouvelis and Benjamin Marx
The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data, with Alexander Gelber and Jae Song (revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics)
Dying to Know: Are Workers Paid Their Marginal Product? (new version coming soon)
Published Papers
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era, with Kyle Greenberg, Matt Gudgeon, Corbin Miller, and Rich Patterson, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137, 2363–2418
The Effect of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries, with Kirk Doran and Alexander Gelber, Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130(10), 2501-2533
The Effect of Youth Employment on Crime: Evidence from New York City Lotteries, with Judd Kessler, Sarah Tahamont, and Alexander Gelber, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41, 710-730
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Liquidity and Household Formation among Student Borrowers, with Sarena Goodman and Constantine Yannelis, Journal of Financial Economics, 2021, 142(3): 1301-1323
Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins, with George Bulman, Robert Fairlie, and Sarena Goodman, American Economic Review, 2021, 111(4): 1201-1240
Income Responses to the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from the Premium Tax Credit Notch, with Brad Heim, Gillian Hunter, Ithai Lurie, and Shanthi Ramnath, Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102396
Un-Fortunate Sons: Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on the Next Generation's Labor Market, with Sarena Goodman, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12, 182-209
The Relationship Between Season of Birth, Temperature Exposure, and Later Life Well-Being, with Maya Rossin-Slater and Reed Walker, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 114, 13447-13452
Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970, with Maya Rossin-Slater and Reed Walker, Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125, 842-902
The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries, with Alexander Gelber and Judd Kessler, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131, 423-460
Do Local Fiscal Spillovers Exist? Evidence from Counties, Municipalities, and School Districts, Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 110, 57-73
Child Schooling and Parental Behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study, with Alexander Gelber, Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 101, 25-38
Women’s Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility, with Betsey Stevenson in Demography and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, 2010
On Inferring Demand for Health Care in the Presence of Anchoring and Selection Biases, with Jay Bhattacharya, Berkeley Electronic Press Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Vol. 12 (2), 2009