Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care, with David E. Bloom,
  International Social Security Review, 75(3-4), 47-69, 2022. (WP)

• Health Improvements Impact Income Inequality,
  Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 22, 100385, 2022. (WP, Replication)

• Health Dynamics Shape Life-Cycle Incomes,
  Journal of Health Economics, 75, 102398, 2021. (WP, Replication)

• Income Shocks, Inequality, and Democratization, with Uwe Sunde,
  Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 123(1), 295-326, 2021. (Replication)

• The Demographic Dividend Is More Than an Education Dividend, with Patricio Suarez Urtaza and Uwe Sunde,
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(42), 25982-25984, 2020. (Replication)

• Can education compensate the effect of population ageing on macroeconomic performance?, with Uwe Sunde,
  Economic Policy, 33(96), 587-634, 2018. (Replication)

• Democracy, inequality, and institutional quality, with Uwe Sunde,
  European Economic Review, 91(1), 209-228, 2017. (Replication)

Working Papers

• Population Aging and Economic Growth: From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?, with David E. Bloom,
  NBER Working Paper No. 31585, National Bureau of Economic Research, MA: Cambridge, 2023.

• Have Preferences Become More Similar Worldwide?, with Uwe Sunde,
  mimeo, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, MA: Boston, 2023.

• Does Demography Determine Democratic Attitudes?, with Uwe Sunde,
  CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17624, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2022.

• Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence,
  with David E. Bloom, David Canning, Klaus Prettner, and Johannes Schünemann,
  NBER Working Paper No. 26003, National Bureau of Economic Research, MA: Cambridge, 2019, revised 2022.

Selected Work in Progress

• Health, Morbidity, and Activity in Old Age, 2023.

• Longevity, Education, and Labor Supply, 2023.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications to a Wider Audience

• Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence,
  with David E. Bloom, David Canning, Klaus Prettner, and Johannes Schünemann,
  published online on VoxEU, September 2022.

• Reckoning for the Growing Demand for Long-Term Care, with David E. Bloom,
  published online on VoxEU, May 2022.

• Längeres Leben, Höhere Ungleichheit?
  published online on Ökonomenstimme, May 2022, in German.

• Investment in Education Can Counter the Economic Impact of an Older Population, with Uwe Sunde,
  published online on LSE Business Review, May 2018.