Research

My research interests span across financial economics, labor economics, economics of aging, and retirement preparedness.

Published Papers

"Prevalence of Dementia in India: National and State Estimates from a Nationwide Study" (with J. Lee et al.), Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, forthcoming.

"The Stability and Predictive Power of Financial Literacy: Evidence from Longitudinal Data" (with J. Burke, A. Lusardi, and G. Mottola), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, forthcoming.

"Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Aging, and Debt Accumulation" (with J. Burke and A. Kapteyn), Journal of Banking and Finance, forthcoming.

"Financial Social Protection and Individual Out-of-Pocket Costs of Long-Term Care in the USA and Europe: An Observational Study" (with J.C. Ortega Regalado and T. Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi), eClinicalMedicine, 2022, Vol. 50.

"How Much of the Female Disadvantage in Late-life Cognition in India Can Be Explained by Education and Gender Inequality" (with U. Jain, K. Langa, J. Lee, and T.V. Sekher), Scientific Reports, 2022 12:5684.

"Adherence to COVID-19-Protective Behaviors in India from May to December 2020: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey" (with S. Schaner, N. Theys, J. Banerjee, P. Khobragade, S. Petrosyan, A. Agarwal, S. Chien, B. Weerman, A. Chakrawarty, P. Chatterjee, N. Madaan, D. Bloom, J. Lee, and A.B. Dey), BMJ Open, 2022, 12(2).

"Consumption, Saving, and Wealth Accumulation at Old Age: Comparing Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries" (with J. Lee and G. Rebellato), in Handbook on the Economics of Ageing, eds. D.E. Bloom, A. Sousa-Poza, and U. Sunde, 2002, Routledge, London.

"COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Distress" (with F. Perez-Arce, D. Bennett, J. Darling, A. Kapteyn, and K. Thomas), PLOS One, September 8, 2021.

"Information Redundancy Neglect versus Overconfidence: a Social Learning Experiment" (with A. Guarino, P. Jehiel, and T. Kitagawa), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13(3): 163-97, 2021.

"The Racial/Ethnic Gap in Financial Literacy in the Population and by Income" (with S. Barrera, L. Blanco, and S. Contreras), Contemporary Economic Policy, 2020.

"Work-Life Balance and Labor Force Attachment at Older Ages" (with M. Casanova and E. Meijer), Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 41(1): 34-68, 2020.

"Gender Differences in Cognitive Health among Older Adults in India" (with J. Lee and U. Jain), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 68(53): 20-28, 2020.

"Cross-country Analysis of Retirement, Health, and Wellbeing Editorial" (with J. Lee), The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol.16, 2020.

"The Gender Gap in Education and Late-life Cognition: Evidence from Multiple Countries and Birth Cohorts" (with J. Lee and E. Meijer), The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol.16, 2020.

"What You Think You Know Can Hurt You: Under/Over Confidence in Financial Knowledge and Preparedness for Retirement" (with M. Casanova), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2019.

"The Effect of Housing Wealth Losses on Spending in the Great Recession" (with M. Hurd and S. Rohwedder), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 57(2): 972-996, 2019.

"Can Internet Match High Quality Traditional Surveys? Comparing the Health and Retirement Study and its Online Version" (with B. Finley and A. Kapteyn), in Advances in Econometrics, Volume 39, edited by G. Tripathi, D. T. Jacho-Chavez, and K. P. Huynh, 2019, pp. 3-33.

"Cognitive Decline and Household Financial Decisions at Older Ages" (with J. Lee), Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol. 13: 86-101, 2019.

"Public Health Insurance and Household Portfolio Choices: Unraveling Financial 'Side Effects' of Medicare" (with V. Atella and M. Brunetti), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 93: 198-212, 2018.

"Understanding the Racial/Ethnic Gap in Bank Account Ownership Among Older Adults" (with E. Aguila, L. Blanco, and L. Meng), Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 53(2): 324-354 2018.

"Cross-Country Comparisons of Disability and Morbidity: Evidence from the Gateway to Global Aging Data" (with S. Chien, E. Crimmins, J. Lee, A lin, D. Phillips, and J. Wilkins), The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Vol. 73(11): 1519-1524, 2017.

"Personality and Employment Transitions at Older Ages: Direct and Indirect Effects through Non-Monetary Job Characteristics" (with M. Hurd, E. Meijer, A. Parker and S. Rohwedder), LABOUR, Vol. 31: 127-152, 2017.

"Health Effects of Short-Term Fluctuations in Macroeconomic Conditions: The Case of Hypertension for Older Americans" (with J. Lee), Health Economics, Vol. 25: 113-125. 2016.

"Ownership of a Checking Account and Health of Older Hispanics" (with E. Aguila and L. Blanco), Economics Letters, Vol. 144: 41-44, 2016.

"Measuring Household Spending and Payment Habits: the Role of Typical and Specific Time Frames in Survey Questions" (with A. Kapteyn and S. Schuh), in Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures, Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 74, edited by C. Carroll, T. Crossley and J. Sabelhaus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

"No-Trade in the Laboratory" (with A. Guarino, S. Huck and N. Larson), B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 11(1) (Advances), Article 9, 2011.

Working Papers

"The Early Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Americans' Economic Security" (with J. Burke and A. Kapteyn), Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center, WP 2021-426, 2021.

"Risk Preferences, Trust and Noncognitive Skills at the Time of COVID-19: an Experiment with Professional Traders and Students" (with M. Cipriani, A. Guarino, R. Kendall, and J. Ortiz De Zarate Pina), 2020. [submitted]

"Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Health" (with M. Angelucci, D. Bennett, A. Kapteyn, and S. Schaner), NBER Working Paper No. 27749, 2020.

"Sorting into Jobs and Labor Supply and Demand at Older Ages" (with A. Kapteyn and E. Meijer), 2019.

"Non-Monetary Job Characteristics and Employment Transitions at Older Ages" (with A. Kapteyn and E. Meijer), Michigan Retirement Research Center, WP 2015-326, 2015.

"Investment Decisions in Retirement: the Role of Subjective Expectations" (with M. Hurd and E. Meijer), Michigan Retirement Research Center, WP 2012-274, 2012.