Health Insurance and Consumption Risk
Conditionally accepted by the Review of Economics and Statistics
March 2025
Long-Run Intergenerational Effects of Social Security
(with Daniel Fetter and Paul Mohnen)
November 2024
Renting Hedges Wage Risk
(with Lorenz Kueng and Pinchuan Ong)
October 2024
Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance
July 2022 (with Manasi Deshpande)
Econometrica, 90(4): 1781-1810.
Online appendix. NBER working paper #28852. Publisher's website
Targeting with In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care
April 2019 (with Ethan Lieber)
American Economic Review, 109(4): 1461-1485.
Online appendix. NBER working paper #24267
Featured in Public Finance and Public Policy and by the American Economic Association.
Incidental Bequests and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks
September 2018
American Economic Review, 108(9): 2513-2550.
Online appendix. NBER working paper #20745
Winner of the 2019 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award.
Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
August 2018 (with Daniel Fetter)
American Economic Review, 108(8): 2174-2211.
Online appendix. NBER working paper #22132
Featured in the NBER Digest, as the AEA Chart of the Week, and by the Institute for Policy Research
Bequest Motives and the Annuity Puzzle
April 2012
Review of Economic Dynamics, 15(2): 226-243.
November 2018
Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018.
Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets
Spring 2010 (with Tomas Philipson, Seth Seabury, Darius Lakdawalla, and Dana Goldman)
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 325-361.