Martin Saavedra

Publications

1. "Voting Rights and Media Sentiment: Evidence from Early Suffrage States" forthcoming at Journal of Economic History.

2. "Re-Evaluating the Long-Term Effects of In Utero Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic" (with Brian Beach, Ryan Brown, Joseph Ferrie, and Duncan Thomas) Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 130, No. 7, 2022, pp. 1963-1990. This comment combines NBER working paper W24725: “Fetal Shock or Selection?” (by Beach, Ferrie, and Saavedra) and “On the Long-Term Effects of the 1918 U.S. Influenza Pandemic” (by Brown and Thomas).

3. "The Ohio Vaccine Lottery and Starting Vaccination Rates" (with Margaret Brehm and Paul Brehm) American Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2022.

4. "Segregation and the Initial Provision of Water in the United States" (with Brian Beach and John Parman) American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 112, 2022.

5. "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for COVID-19." (with Brian Beach and Karen Clay) Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2022.

6. "Kenji or Kenneth? Pearl Harbor and Japanese-American Assimilation." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 185, 2021 .

7. "The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics" (with Nick Huntington-Klein, Andreu Arenas, Emily Beam, Marco Bertoni, Jeffrey Bloem, Pralhad Burli, Naibin Chen, Paul Greico, Godwin Ekpe, Todd Pugatch, and Yaniv Stopnitzky) Economic Inquiry, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2021.

Awarded Best Paper of the Year in Economic Inquiry, 2021.

8. "Birth Weight and Infant Health for Multiple Births." Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 69, 2020.

9. "A Machine Learning Approach to Improving Occupational Income Scores." (with Tate Twinam) Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 75, 2020.

10. "The Electoral College, Battleground States, and Rule-Utilitarian Voting." (with Andrew Jorgenson) Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 51, No. 4, 2018.

11. "Early-Life Disease Exposure and Occupational Status: The Impact of Yellow Fever during the 19th Century." Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 64, 2017.

12. "Children's Health Insurance, Family Income, and Welfare Enrollment." Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 73, 2017.

13. "Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation." (with Brian Beach, Joseph Ferrie, and Werner Troesken) Journal of Economic History, Vol. 76, No. 1, 2016.

Awarded the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in the JEH, 2015-2016.

14.  "School Quality and Educational Attainment: Japanese American Internment as a Natural Experiment." Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 57, 2015.

15. "Mitigating the Effects of Low Birth Weight: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Adoptees." (with Brian Beach) American Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2015.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

• "Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality" (with Paul Brehm) conditionally accepted at the Economic Journal.

• "Shutting Down Japantown: The Effects of WW2 Internment on Japanese-American Enclaves" (with Tate Twinam)

• "Japanese-American Internment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Pre-Registered Analysis using Linked Data" (pre-analysis plan available upon request)

• "Legislating Longevity: State-Level Public Health Laws and the Mortality Transition"