Peer-reviewed publications:
"Accelerating Puerto Rico's Disaster Recovery: A Synthesis of Findings and Recommendations," with K. Siler-Evans et al., RAND Corporation, RR-A2959-14, 2025.
"Priority Recommendations for Puerto Rico to Promote Wellbeing and Economic Growth," with K. Siler-Evans et al., RAND Corporation, RR-A2959-30, 2025.
"Preliminary Strategies for Reducing the Burden of Federal Debt: How the United States Reduced the Debt Burden Following World War II and What It Would Take to Do So Again," with C. Price and A. Suresh, RAND Corporation, RR-A2614-4, 2025.
In the media: RAND Commentary
"Macroeconomic Implications of Artificial Intelligence," with A. Nergui and J. W. Welburn, RAND Corporation, PE-A3888-3, 2025.
In the media: Barron's
"Rethinking Social and Economic Policy in the Age of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Cascading Impacts of AI Adoption," with J. W. Welburn et al., RAND Corporation, RR-A3888-2, 2025.
"Banking the Unbanked: CalAccount Market Study and Feasibility Assessment," with J. W. Welburn et al., RAND Corporation, RR-A3117-1, 2024.
"A comparison of living standards across the United States of America," with E. Falcettoni, International Economic Review, 2023, 64(2), 511-542. [Online Appendix]
In the media: Washington Post; Star Tribune; Heller-Hurwicz; FEDS Notes; Brookings; UH News
"Optimal allocations to heterogeneous agents with an application to stimulus checks," with B. E. Sørensen and F. Wang, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022, 138:104352.
This paper subsumes and replaces two previously circulated papers: Wang (2020) and Nygaard, Sørensen, and Wang (2020)
Online Appendix
"Implications of Increasing College Attainment for Aging in General Equilibrium," with J. C. Conesa, T. J. Kehoe, and G. Raveendranathan, European Economic Review, 2020, 122. Special issue on "The Interface Between Structural Micro and Macroeconomics" edited by Z. Eckstein, M. Keane, R. Rogerson, and R. Sauer.
In the media: The Region (FRB Minneapolis); VOX EU
"Macroeconomic Effects of Medicare," with J. C. Conesa, D. Costa, P. Kamali, T. J. Kehoe, G. Raveendranathan, and A. Saxena, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, 11, 27-40.
Non-peer-reviewed publications:
"Refining the Definition of the Unbanked," with E. Falcettoni, forthcoming in AEA Papers and Proceedings.
"The U.S. Got Out from Crippling Levels of Federal Debt Before, and It Can Do It Again," with C. Price and A. Suresh, RAND Corporation, Commentary, November 3, 2025.
"AI Is Making Jobs, Not Taking Them," with J. W. Welburn, Barron's, October 18, 2025.
"Banking Fees Keep Low-Income Customers Away," with J. W. Welburn, Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2024.
"A literature review on the impact of increased unemployment insurance benefits and stimulus checks in the United States," with E. Falcettoni, Covid Economics, 2021, 64, 186-201.
"Macroeconomic Effects of Ageing and Healthcare Policy in the United States," with J. C. Conesa, T. J. Kehoe, and G. Raveendranathan. In D. E. Bloom (ed.), Live Long and Prosper? The Economics of Ageing Populations, 2019, CEPR Press.
"Input-output analysis of the Norwegian economy," Norges Bank Staff Memo, 17, 2013.
"An Almost Ideal Demand System Analysis of Non-durable Consumption Categories," Statistics Norway Reports, 1, 2013.
Working papers:
"Exercise or Extra Fries? Behavioral Drivers of Obesity Over the Life Cycle," with N. Bairoliya and R. Miller.
"The impact of U.S. employer-sponsored insurance in the 20th century," with G. Raveendranathan. Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Labor Economics.
Version 2 (07/11/22)
Version 1 (12/05/21)
"Causes and Consequences of Life Expectancy Inequality."