John's Research Papers

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Academic Papers

• Marriage and Work among Prime-Age Men (with Adam Blandin and Fang Yang), December 2025, details.

• Decomposing Wealth Differences: Earnings, Demographics, and Rates of Return (with Kartik Athreya, Grey Gordon, and Urvi Neelakantan), November 2025, details.

• Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement? Household Heterogeneity and its Aggregate Implications (with Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and Rory McGee), Journal of Political Economy, March 2025, details.

• Medical Spending Risk among Older Households by Race (with Karolos Arapakis, Eric French, and Jeremy McCauley), February 2025, details.

• Incarceration, Employment and Earnings: Dynamics and Differences (with Grey Gordon, Urvi Neelakantan and Kartik Athreya), Review of Economic Dynamics, December 2023, details.

• Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly? (with Eric French and Rory McGee), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023, details.

• Social Security Reform with Heterogeneous Mortality (with Yue Li), Review of Economic Dynamics, April 2023, details

• How Should We Fund End-of-life Care in the US? (with Karolos Arapakis, Eric French and Jeremy McCauley), The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, November 2022

• End-of-Life Medical Expenses (with Eric French, Elaine Kelly and Jeremy McCauley), in Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 9th Edition, January 2021, details

• An Estimated Structural Model of Entrepreneurial Behavior (with Sangeeta Pratap), American Economic Review, September 2020, details 

• The Wage Penalty for Married Women of Career Interruptions: Evidence from the 1970s and the 1990s (with Minhee Kim and Byoung Park), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, January 2020, details

• The Effects of Collecting Income Taxes on Social Security Benefits (with Yue Li), Journal of Public Economics, March 2018, details

• The Accuracy of Economic Measurement in the Health and Retirement Study (with Eric French and Jeremy McCauley), Forum for Health Economics and Policy, available online October 2017, details

• Transition Accounting for India in a Multi-sector Dynamic General Equilibrium Model (with Sohini Sahu), Economic Change and Restructuring, November 2017, details

• Health, Health Insurance and Retirement: A Survey (with Eric French), Annual Review of Economics, August 2017, details

• End-Of-Life Medical Spending In Last Twelve Months Of Life Is Lower Than Previously Reported (with Eric French, Elaine Kelly and more), Health Affairs, July 2017, details

• Medicaid Insurance in Old Age (with Mariacristina De Nardi and Eric French), American Economic Review, November 2016, details

• Savings after Retirement:  A Survey (with Mariacristina De Nardi and Eric French), Annual Review of Economics, October 2016, details

• Medical Spending of the U.S. Elderly (with Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and Jeremy McCauley), Fiscal Studies (special issue on “Medical Expenditures around the World”, edited by Eric French and Elaine Kelley), September-December 2016, details

• Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education (with Fang Yang), Journal of Labor Economics, July 2016, details

• Public Pensions and Labor Supply Over the Life Cycle (with Eric French), International Tax and Public Finance, April 2012, details

• The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior (with Eric French), Econometrica, May 2011, details 

• Why do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses (with Mariacristina De Nardi and Eric French), Journal of Political Economy, February 2010, details

• Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings (with Mariacristina De Nardi and Eric French), American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, May 2009, details

• Financial Liberalization and Banking Crises in Emerging Economies (with Betty C. Daniel), Journal of International Economics, May 2007, details

• Optimal Investment with Lumpy Costs (with Duc T. Le), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, July 2005, details

• On the Distribution and Dynamics of Health Care Costs (with Eric French), Journal of Applied Econometrics (special issue on "The Econometrics of Social Insurance"), November 2004, details

• The Dynamic Effects of Firm-level Borrowing Constraints, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, October 2003, details

• Finite Mixture Distributions, Sequential Likelihood and the EM Algorithm (with Peter Arcidiacono), Econometrica, May 2003, details

• Has Fiscal Policy Helped Stabilize the Postwar U.S. Economy?, Journal of Monetary Economics 49(4) May, 2002, details

• Multiple Equilibria and Endogenous Persistence in a Dynamic Model of Employment, SUNY-Albany Discussion Paper 04-02, July 1998, details

Papers Published in Federal Reserve Journals

• Medical Spending, Bequests, and Asset Dynamics around the Time of Death (with  Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, Rory McGee and Rachel Rodgers), Economic Quarterly (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Fourth Quarter 2020

• The Lifetime Medical Spending of Retirees (with Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, Rory McGee and Justin Kirschner), Economic Quarterly (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Third Quarter 2018

• Medicaid and the Elderly (with Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and Angshuman Gooptu), Economic Perspectives (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), 1st Quarter 2012

• Right before the End: Asset Decumulation at the End of Life (with Olesya Baker, Mariacristina De Nardi and Eric French), Economic Perspectives (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), January 2006