Mark Borgschulte, University of Illinois Economics

Working Papers and Work in Progress

Older and Wiser? Gender Norms and Relative Age in Marriage, with Yuhao Yang 

Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era, with Dan Aaronson, Sunny Liu and Bhash Mazumder 

Immigration and Inequality in the Next Generation, with Heepyung Cho, Darren Lubotsky and Jonathan Rothbaum 

U.S. Labor Market Effects of the Mexican Drug War, with Yuci Chen and Eduardo Medina-Cortina

The Affordable Care Act, Breastfeeding, and Women’s Labor Force Participation, with Alok Ranjan and Rebecca Thornton 

Publications

CEO Stress, Aging, and Death, with Marius Guenzel, Canyao Liu, and Ulrike Malmendier, Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke, with David Molitor and Eric Zou, Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming

The Early Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in the US: An Analysis of the Growth of the NAACP, with Dan Aaronson, Jala Abner, and Bhash Mazumder, Oxford Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, March 2023.

Youth Disconnection during the Covid-19 Pandemic, with Yuci Chen, Labour Economics, October 2022, 78: 102241.  

Partisanship and Survey Refusal, with Heepyung Cho and Darren Lubotsky, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 2022, 200:332-357. 

Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?, with Jacob Vogler, Journal of Health Economics, May 2020, 102333.

Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians, with Jacob Vogler, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, November 2019, 18-32.

Minimum Wages and Retirement, with Heepyung Cho, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 73:1, 2020, 153-177.

Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment, with Paco Martorell, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10:3, July 2018, 101-127.

A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide, with Adriana Corredor-Waldron and Guillermo Marshall, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 149, May 2018, 169-184.