Publications:
*Student coauthor
Anand, P., and Gicheva, D. “The Effects of Access to Medicaid on the Employment and Academic Progress of College Students.” (2024). American Journal of Health Economics. Volume 10, Issue 4.
Media coverage: Inside Higher Ed
Anand, P., and Kahn, L.B. “The Effect of a Peer's Teen Pregnancy on Sexual Behavior.” (2024). Journal of Health Economics. Volume 96. (Previous version available as NBER Working Paper No. 31228).
Kogan, K.*, Anand, P., Gallo, S. and Cuellar, A.E. “A Quasi-Experimental Assessment of the Effect of the 2009 WIC Food Package Revisions on Breastfeeding Outcomes.” (2023). Nutrients. Volume 15, Number 2.
Anand, P., Dague, L., and Wagner, K. “The Role of Paid Family Leave in Labor Supply Responses to a Spouse's Disability or Health Shock.” (2022). Journal of Health Economics. Volume 83. (Previous version available as NBER Working Paper No. 28808).
Cited in the White House Council of Economic Advisors Economic Report of the President in 2022 and 2023.
Anand, P., Hoffman, D., Jones, J., and Lukashanets, S. “Labor Supply Response to Overpayment Notices: Evidence from Social Security Disability Insurance.” (2022). Contemporary Economic Policy. Volume 40, Issue 2, pp. 304-322.
Media coverage: Squared Away Blog
Cited in the written testimony for the US House Ways and Means Committee September 2025 Hearing
Laird, J., Ben-Shalom, Y., and Anand, P. “Employment Patterns of SSI-First Awardees Who Enter SSDI After Achieving Disability-Insured Status.” (2022). Journal of Disability Policy Studies. Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 81-91.
Media coverage: Squared Away Blog
Anand, P., and Gicheva, D. "The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansions on the Sources of Health Insurance Coverage of Undergraduate Students in the U.S." (2022). Medical Care Research and Review. Volume 79, Issue 2, pp. 299-307.
Anand, P., Ben-Shalom, Y., and Schone, E. "Factors Associated with the Acceptance of TRICARE and Medicare by Health Care Providers." (2021). Medical Care Research and Review. Volume 78, Issue 5, pp. 627-637.
Media coverage: New York Times
Anand, P., and Honeycutt, T. “Long-term Outcomes for Transition-Age Youth with Mental Health Conditions Who Receive Postsecondary Education Support.” (2020). Journal of Disability Policy Studies. Volume 30, Number 4, pp. 223-232.
Anand, P., Schimmel Hyde, J., Colby, M., and O’Leary, P. “The Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Applications to Federal Disability Programs.” (2019). Forum for Health Economics and Policy. Volume 21, Issue 2.
Anand, P., Kranker, K., and Chen, A.Y. “Estimating the Hospital Costs of Inpatient Harms.” (2019). Health Services Research. Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 86-96.
Anand, P., and Ben-Shalom, Y. “Pathways Taken By New Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Awardees.” (2018). Journal of Disability Policy Studies. Volume 29, Issue 3. Pp 153-165.
Anand, P., and Sevak, P. “The Role of Workplace Accommodations in the Employment of People with Disabilities.” (2017). IZA Journal of Labor Policy. Volume 6, Issue 12.
Honeycutt, T., Anand, P., Rubinstein, M. and Stern, S. “Public Provision of Postsecondary Education for Transition-Age Youth with Mental Health Conditions.” (2017). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. Volume 40, Issue 2, pp 183-196.
Anand, P., and Wittenburg, D. “An Analysis of Private Long-Term Disability Insurance Access, Cost and Policy Options Using the National Compensation Survey.” (2017). Monthly Labor Review.
Anand, P. “Health Insurance Costs and Employee Compensation: Evidence from the National Compensation Survey.” (2017). Health Economics. Volume 26, Issue 12, pp. 1601-1616.
Media coverage: NPR, ProPublica, CT Mirror
Anand, P. and Ben-Shalom, Y. “How do Working-Age People with Disabilities Spend Their Time? New Evidence From the American Time Use Survey.” (2014). Demography. Volume 51, Issue 6, pp 1977-1998.
Anand, P., Mizala, A, and Repetto, A. “Using School Scholarships to Estimate the Effect of Private Education on Academic Achievement in Chile.” (2009). Economics of Education Review. Volume 28, Issue 3, pp. 370-381.
Working Papers:
Anand, P. “The Impact of Losing Child Disability Benefits on Health and Education Outcomes."
Anand, P., Dague, L., Wagner, W.,, Alsadah, G.* and Wojtusiak, J. “Access to Paid Leave: New Evidence from Machine Learning Classification Models.”
Anand, P., Phu-Duyen, T.*, and Slavov, S. “Does Information Influence the Choice between Social Security Disability and Early Retirement Benefits?”
Work in Progress:
Anand, P. and Moffitt, R. "Taxes, Transfers and Inequality at the Bottom End of the Income Distribution."