⇰ The Affordable Care Act and Racial Disparities in Healthcare Utilization: New Evidence from Employer Mandate (with Md Mohsan Khudri), The Review of Black Political Economy, forthcoming.

⇰ The Organizational Impact of Presenteeism among Key Healthcare Workers due to the COVID-19 Pandemic ( with Shelley I. White Means, Carol L. Warren), The Review of Black Political Economy, March 2022.

⇰ Children's Health Capital Investment: Effects of U.S. Infant Breastfeeding on Teenage Obesity (with Albert Okunade, Toluwalope Ayangbayi, Adeyinka Okunade), Econometrics,  December 2021.

⇰ Cancer Survivors in the Labor Market: Evidence from Recent US Micro-Panel Data (with Albert Okunade), Economic Modelling, August 2019. 

⇰ Conditional Cash Incentive and Use of Health Care Services: New Evidence from a Household Experiment,  Journal of Family and Economic Issues, August 2021.

⇰ A Double-Hurdle Model of Healthcare Expenditures across Income Quintiles and Family Size: New Insights from a household Survey (with Albert Okunade), Journal of Risk and Financial Management, July  2021.

⇰ Effects of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth: New Results Using the Flexible Box-Cox Power Transformation Model (with Albert Okunade), Applied Economics Letters, October 2020.

⇰ Job Market Prospects of Breast v/s Prostate Cancer Survivors in the US: A Double-Hurdle Model of Ethnic Disparities ( with Shelley I. White-Means), Journal of Family and Economic Issues, June 2019.

⇰ Intervention and Public Policy Pathways to Achieve Health Care Equity (with Shelley I. White-Means and Darrell J. Gaskin), Health Economics section, IJERPH, July 2019.

⇰ Technology, Productivity and Costs in Healthcare (with Albert Okunade), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, August 2018. 

⇰ Affordable Care Act and Disparities in Health Services Utilization among Ethnic Minority Breast Cancer Survivors: Evidence from Longitudinal MEPS 2008-2015 (with Shelley White-Means), Health Economics section, IJERPH, September 2018.

⇰ Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient-Provider Communication With Breast Cancer Patients: Evidence From 2011 MEPS and Experiences With Cancer Supplement (with Shelley White-Means), INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, August 2017.

• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Economics, Louisiana State University Shreveport 

• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Louisiana Monroe  (2020- 2022)

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Economics, University of Memphis (2019- 2020)

• Research Assistant, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (2016- 2020)

• Graduate Instructor, University of Memphis (2016-2019)

• Health Economics Officer, Futures Group/USAID/MOPH (2011-2014)

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, 2024

• American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Annual Meeting,   St. Louis, MO, 2023

• American Economic Association (AEA/ASSA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2023

• American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, 2022

• American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2021

• American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2021

• Western Economic Association International (WEAI)  Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2021

• American Economic Association (AEA/ASSA) Annual Meeting, 2020 (Link)

• American Economic Association (AEA/ASSA) Annual Meeting, 2018

• International Health Economics  Association (iHEA) Annual Meeting, 2017

• Midwestern Economic Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, 2018

• Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Science Meeting , 2017

• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, 2020