RESEARCH

Publication

• The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health (2024), with Mariacristina De Nardi and Svetlana Pashchenko,  Review of Economic Studies

- link to NBER Working Paper   

- link to HCEO working paper  

- link to replication package

• Accounting for Social Security Claim behavior (2024), with Svetlana Pashchenko,  International Economic Review  

• Aging, Inadequacy and Fiscal Constraint: The Case of Thailand (2023), with Phitawat Poonpolkul and Nada Wasi, International Studies of Economics

-  received Thailand's research award (2025) from  National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)

• Value of Life and Annuity Demand (2022), with Svetlana Pashchenko, Journal of Risk and Insurance

• On Covid-19: New implications of job task requirements and spouse's occupational sorting (2020), with Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Suphanit Piyapromdee, and Nada Wasi,  Covid Economics.

  • • Here is a related short article (Thai) on PIER website.

• Reducing Medical Spending of the Publicly Insured: the Case for a Cash-out Option (2019), with Svetlana Pashchenko,   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

• Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and The Role of Asset Testing (2017), with Svetlana Pashchenko,   International Economic Review.        

  • • Here is a discussion on HCEO website.

• Cross-Subsidization in Employer-Based Health Insurance and the Effect of Tax Subsidy Reform (2016), with Svetlana Pashchenko,   National Tax Journal

• Medical Spending in the US: Facts from the Medical Expenditure Survey Dataset (2016), with Svetlana Pashchenko,   Fiscal Studies 

• Welfare Costs of Reclassification Risk in the Health Insurance Market (2015), with Svetlana Pashchenko,  Journal of Macroeconomics

•  Quantitative Analysis of Health Insurance Reform: Separating Regulation from Redistribution (2013), with Svetlana Pashchenko,   Review of Economic Dynamics (lead article)

 In Progress

• Saving Motives over the Life-Cycle (2025), with Svetlana Pashchenko ... new!

• Mortality Regressivity and Pension Design (2024), with Youngsoo Jang and Svetlana Pashchenko 

• Redistribution, distortions, and the welfare effects of Social Security, with Youngsoo Jang and Svetlana Pashchenko (preliminary draft available upon request)

Manuscripts

• Incomplete Information in an Incomplete Market: Examining the Mechanism (2009)

• Information Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy (2008), with Eric R. Young