Peer-Reviewed Publications
Seasonal Allergies and Mental Health: Do Small Health Shocks Affect Suicidality?, with Shooshan Danagoulian and Owen Fleming, Journal of Health Economics (Forthcoming)
Press Coverage: CT Insider, Daily Mail, Detroit News, Fox 2 Detroit, Great Lakes Now, MSN, New York Post, Physicians Weekly, People, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Gate, Seattle PI, The Conversation, Times Union, Toronto Sun, U.S. News and World Report, Yahoo News
Comparing Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment Income: New Implications from the Health and Retirement Study, National Tax Journal, 78(1) (2025)
Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Law on Caregiving by Older Adults, with Marcus Dillender, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 36(4): 490-507 (2024)
Press Coverage: Fortune, Yahoo News, The Conversation
Trends in Use of High-Cost Antihyperglycemic Drugs among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes, with Phuc Le, Thanh C. Bui, William H. Herman, Anita D. Misra-Hebert, and Michael B. Rothberg, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38: 49-56 (2023)
Infertility Insurance Mandates and Maternal Mortality, Fertility and Sterility Dialog: Consider This (2020)
The Effect of ACA State Medicaid Expansions on Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures, Medical Care Research and Review, 77(1): 19-33 (2020)
Cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President
Planning Parenthood: The Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision and Pathways to Fertility, Journal of Population Economics, 31(4): 1097-1123 (2018)
Press Coverage: HuffPost, Salon, Raw Story, The Conversation
New Estimates of Offer and Take-up of Employer-Sponsored Insurance, with Brett O’Hara, Medical Care Research and Review, 74(5): 595-612 (2017)
Risking Life and Limb: Estimating a Measure of Medical Care Economic Risk and Considering its Implications, with Brett O’Hara and Darcy Steeg Morris, Health Economics, 26(4): 469-485 (2017)
Assisted Reproductive Technology and Women’s Timing of Marriage and Childbearing, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 38(1): 100-117 (2017)
Saying, “I Don’t”: The Effect of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Marriage, Journal of Human Resources, 51(4): 933-960 (2016)
The Connection between Working Hours and Body Mass Index in the U.S.: A Time Use Analysis, Review of Economics of the Household, 14(1): 131-154 (2016)
Press Coverage: The Economist
The Financial Burden of Medical Spending: Estimates and Implications for Evaluating the Impact of ACA Reforms, with Brett O’Hara, Medical Care Research and Review, 72(2): 187-199 (2015)
Turning Back the Ticking Clock: The Effect of Increased Affordability of Assisted Reproductive Technology on Women’s Marriage Timing, Journal of Population Economics, 27(2): 603-633 (2014)
Working Papers
“Finding Needles in Haystacks: Multiple-Imputation Record Linkage Using Machine Learning” with John M. Abowd, Margaret C. Levenstein, Kristin McCue, Dhiren Patki, Trivellore Raghunathan, Ann M. Rodgers, Matthew D. Shapiro, Nada Wasi, and Dawn Zinsser
“Underreporting of Self-Employment Income by Sex and Race and Implications for Poverty Measurement: Insights from Comparing the Health and Retirement Study and Tax Data”
“Understanding Self-Employment Trajectories over the Life Course in the United States” with Andrew Joung
“Self-Employment at Older Ages: Differences in Roles, Characteristics, and Wellbeing” with Andrew Joung
“How is Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Changing in Response to an Aging Workforce?” with Owen Davis and Alice Zawacki
Work in Progress
“The Effects of Recessions on Non-Traditional Work Arrangements” with Andrew Joung and Sajiv Shah
“Heat Advisories and Adaptation to Extreme Heat Events” with Rosie Mueller and Amani Rashid