Peer-Reviewed Publications

"How Does Medicaid Managed Care Affect Provider Behavior? New Evidence from Spillovers on Private Health Care" Journal of Public Economics 248 (2025): 105434. Manuscript. Published version. 

"The Value of Improving Insurance Quality: Evidence from Long-Run Medicaid Attrition" (with Boris Vabson) Journal of Health Economics. (2024): 102865. Manuscript. Published version.

"Patient Routing to Skilled Nursing Facilities: The Consequences of the Medicare Reimbursement Rule" (with Ginger Jin and Susan Lu) Management Science 68, no. 12 (2022): 8722-8740. Manuscript. Appendix. Published version.

Previously circulated as "Medicare Payment to Skilled Nursing Facilities: The Consequences of the Three-Day Rule" NBER working paper #25017.

"What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Temperature on Maternal Health" (with Jiyoon Kim and Maya Rossin-Slater) American Journal of Health Economics 7, no. 3 (2021): 281-305. Manuscript. Appendix. Published version. NBER working paper #26384. IZA discussion paper #12685.

Press coverage: Stanford Health Policy News; MarketWatch; MIT Technology Review; Journalist's Resource

"How Do Hospitals Respond to Managed Care? Evidence from At-Risk Newborns" Journal of Public Economics 184 (2020): 104130. Manuscript. Published version.

"Late-Career Job Loss and Retirement Behavior of Couples" Research on Aging 39, no. 1 (2017): 7-28. Manuscript. Published version. [Social Insurance and Lifecycle Events among Older Americans Special Issue, edited by Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie M. Zissimopoulos]

"Impacts of Classifying New York City Students as Overweight" (with Douglas Almond and Amy Ellen Schwartz) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 no. 13 (2016): 3488-3491. Published version.

Press coverage: The Associated Press (Mar 2016); CNN (Mar 2016); Slate (Mar 2016)

Working papers

"The Economic Consequences of Nursing Home Admissions" (with Elizabeth Kayoon Hur) Manuscript. Submitted.

"Large Impacts of Grade Retention in New York City" (with Douglas Almond and Amy Ellen Schwartz)

"The Effect of a National Subsidy for Cancer Screening: Evidence from South Korea" (with Yunji Choi and Hyuncheol Bryant Kim)

"Managed Care in Medicaid's Long-Term Services and Supports" (with Maya Rossin-Slater, Becky Staiger, and Amanda Su)

"Economic Drivers of Medicaid Churn and the Role of Income Volatility" (with Emilie Jackson, Gina Li, and Victoria Udalova)

Other Publications

"How Medicare can reduce waste in post-acute care: The case of skilled nursing facilities." SIEPR Policy Brief.