Research

Publications


Long-Term Care Insurance and the Family (May 2023)

Accepted, Journal of Political Economy


The Rise of Urgent Care Centers: Implications for Competition and Access to Health Care (August 2023)

with Lorenzo Magnolfi, Natalia Serna, and Christopher Sullivan

Accepted, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics


Time Aggregation in Health Insurance Deductibles (August 2022)

with Long Hong

Accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

[NBER Working Paper 28430]


What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?

with Amitabh Chandra and Courtney Coile

2023, Journal of Economic Literature, 61(2): 428-470.

[NBER Working Paper 27760] [NBER Bulletin on Health summary][AEA Research Highlights podcast]

Migration and Informal Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial and a Structural Model 

with Costas Meghir, Mushfiq Mobarak, and Melanie Morten

2022, Review of Economic Studies, 89: 452-480.

[NBER Working Paper 26082]

 

The Cyclicality of Informal Care 

with Yulya Truskinovsky

2020, Journal of Health Economics, 71.

 

The Economic Consequences of Hospitalizations for Older Workers across Countries 

with Syed Hassan Raza and Yu Zheng

2020, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 16.

 

School Grants and Education Quality: Evidence from Senegal 

with Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouede, Nathalie Lahire, and Costas Meghir

2020, Economica, 87: 28-51.

[NBER Working Paper 21063]

 

Are Coresidence and Nursing Homes Substitutes? Evidence from Medicaid Spend-Down Provisions

2018, Journal of Health Economics, 59: 125-138

Working Papers

Firm Accommodation After Disability: Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance (December 2023)

with Naoki Aizawa and Stephanie Rennane

Revise and resubmit, Econometrica

 

Insurance in Extended Family Networks (May 2019)

with Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir 

Revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association

[NBER Working Paper 21059] [VoxEU article]


Growing Apart: Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China (February 2024)

with Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, and Yu Zheng

Conditionally accepted, Journal of Development Economics

[NBER Working Paper 30143] [VoxChina article]

Work in Progress

 

Hiring Subsidies for the Disadvantaged: Evidence from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (preliminary - email for draft)

with Manisha Jain and Jeffrey Weaver


Long-Term Care Insurance for Dementia Patients: Evidence from Germany

with Matthias Baeuml, Jonathan Gruber, and Martin Hackmann


Does Expanding Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care Improve Quality? Evidence from Wisconsin

with Mary Hamman and Yulya Truskinovsky


The Volatility Penalty: Income Aggregation and Tax Policy

with Ross Milton

Non-Refereed Publications


Is All Caregiving Created Equal?

with Yulya Truskinovsky

2023, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 113: 627-631.

[Online Appendix]


Explaining heterogeneity in use of non-wage benefits: The role of worker and firm characteristics in disability accommodations 

with Naoki Aizawa and Stephanie Rennane

2022, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 112: 376-380.

[Online Appendix]


Perspective piece on "Access to long term care after a wealth shock: Evidence from the housing bubble and burst" by Joan Costa Font, Richard Frank, and Katherine Swartz

2019, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 13: 111-112.