Working Papers

• Development Economics

  • • Economic Development,Undernutrition and Diabetes [2024] R&R Quantitative Economics (with Nancy Luke, Kaivan Munshi and Anu Mary Oommen)
      Media: IGC/Ideas for India

    • Social Status, Economic Development and Female Labor Force (Non) Participation (joint with Kaivan Munshi)

    • Payment System Shock and Trade-Credit Stretching [2026] (joint with Swarnodeep Homroy and Egle Jakučionytė)

• Quantitative Macro

  • • Public Insurance of Married versus Single Households in the US: Trends and Welfare Consequences  [2016]

    • Type and Scale Dependence and Second Pillar Pension Reforms (joint with Eglė Jakučionytė) [2026]

• Housing Market

  • • Housing Market Structure and Energy Efficiency Renovation [2026] (joint with Eglė Jakučionytė)
      Media: VoxEU

    • Housing Energy Efficiency and the Horizon Effect [2024] (joint with Ran Gu and Eglė Jakučionytė)

• Policy oriented

  • • Evolution of Small and Medium Enterprises in Lithuania over the period 2004 -- 2024 [2026] Codes

    • Convergence without Capital Deepening: The Baltic Growth Experience and Its Prospects[2026]

Academic Publications [with some replication links]

1. Advance Information and Consumption Insurance: Evidence and Structural Estimation (joint with Marcelo Pedroni, and Christian Stoltenberg, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2025)
   Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper version
   SSRN Link

2. School Closures and Implications for Student Outcomes: Evidence from Lithuania  (joint with Eglė Jakučionytė, and Indrė Pusevaitė,   Journal of Education and Work, 2024)

3. Emergence of Subprime Lending in Minority Neighborhoods  (joint with Egle Jakucionyte,  Real Estate Economics, 2023)
   Media: LSE Business Review
   Bank of Lithuania Working Paper

4. Bowling Alone, Buying Alone: The Decline of Co-borrowers in the US Mortgage Market (with Egle Jakucionyte, Journal of Housing Economics, 2022)
   Media: Vox column
   Bank of Lithuania Working Paper
   Published version

5. Consumption Insurance with Advance Information  (with Christian Stoltenberg,  Quantitative Economics, 2020) 

6. Optimal Monetary Policy Under Sector Interconnections (with Roel Beetsma) Netherlands Economic Review (De Economist) 2018, 166:309-336  [Working paper, published version  ]

Miscllaneous

• Mortgage Foreclosure Risk After The Great Recession   [2018] (joint with Egle Jakucionyte) Codes