Working Papers

What do bequests left by married decedents with a surviving spouse tell us about bequest motives? June 2024. Revised and resubmitted at the Journal of Public Economics.

Work in Progress

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

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

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)