Working Papers

What do bequests in married couples with a surviving spouse tell us about bequest motives? February 2025. Accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.

Work in Progress

Family transfers and consumption insurance: A lifecycle model. (with Daniel Barczyk and Matthias Kredler)

How do gig workers value the legal benefits of employment? Evidence from a choice experiment. (with Joanne Song McLaughlin)

Journal Articles

Save, Spend, or Give? A Model of Housing, Family Insurance, and Savings in Old Age. Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 5. (2023): 2116-2187. (with Daniel Barczyk and Matthias Kredler)

How do risk attitudes affect pro-social behavior? Theory and experiment. Theory and Decision 91, no. 1 (2021): 101-122. (with Santiago Sautua)

Out‐of‐Pocket Medical Expenditures in the United States: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Fiscal Studies 37, no. 3-4 (2016): 785-819. (with Kathleen McGarry and Jonathan Skinner)

Out-of-pocket spending in the last five years of life. Journal of General Internal Medicine 28, no. 2 (2013): 304-309. (with Amy S. Kelley, Kathleen McGarry, Samuel M. Marshall, Qingling Du, and Jonathan S. Skinner)

Measures of international relative prices for China and the USA. Pacific Economic Review 14, no. 3 (2009): 376-397. (with Charles Thomas and Jaime Marquez)

Book Chapters

How Caregiving for Parents Reduces Women's Employment: Patterns Across Sociodemographic Groups, 2022. In Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer, Lisa F. Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale, Eds. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (with Kathleen McGarry)

Media: Squared Away Blog

Women Working Longer: The Labor Market Implications of Providing Family Care, 2018. In Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, Eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (with Kathleen McGarry)

Media: Forbes, Forbes, Squared Away Blog, Seniors Matter, New York Times

International Relative Price Levels: An Empirical Analysis, 2013. In Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy: The Framework, Methodology, and Results of the International Comparison Program—ICP. Washington, DC: World Bank. (with Charles Thomas et al.)

Older Working Papers

A Model of Work, Savings, and Care for Elderly Parents (with Kathleen McGarry).  (2019)

Harnessing the Potential of Family Caregivers: A Solution to the U.S. Long-Term Care Crisis? (2015)

Inferring Intra-household Allocations from Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers. (2015)

Informal Care, Actual Bequests, and Housing Assets. (2015)