Research

Publications

Why Do Couples and Singles Save during Retirement? Household Heterogeneity and its Aggregate Implications with Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and John Bailey Jones,  Journal of Political Economy (2025)

Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly? with Eric French and John Bailey Jones,  Journal of Economic Perspectives (2023)

Working Papers

Sufficient Statistics for Economic Mobility NEW! September 2025!

Insurance and Redistribution in the Design of Social Insurance with Martin O'Connell (Submitted)  Updated July 2025! 

Adverse Selection Among Early Adopters and Unraveling Innovation (Submitted) Updated March 2025! IFS WP Version (Dec 2023)

The Life Cycle Dynamics of Wealth Mobility with Richard Audoly, Sergio Ocampo Diaz & Gonzalo Paz Pardo  (Submitted)  Updated January 2025!

Health Inequality and Economic Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Nicolò Russo,  Mariacristina  De Nardi, Margherita Borella, &  Ross Abram (Under Review) Updated December 2024!

Old Age Savings and House Price Shocks (Under Revision)

Awarded the CEPR-TFI Household Finance Award for Best Student Paper at the CEPR 2019 European Conference on Household Finance 

Works In Progress

The (Un)Fortunate Poor with  Jan Eeckhout, Alireza Sepahsalari and Peter Spittal

Inter Vivos Transfers and Familial Risk Sharing over the Life Cycle 

Estimating Health Production in Old Age with Margherita Borella, Mariacristina  De Nardi & Emily Nix

Other Writing

A Practitioners’ Note on The Shapley-Owen-Shorrocks Decomposition with Richard Audoly, Sergio Ocampo Diaz & Gonzalo Paz Pardo (August 2025)

Medical Spending, Bequests, and Asset Dynamics Around the Time of Death (with John Bailey Jones, Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and Rachel Rodgers. Economic Quarterly (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Fourth Quarter 2020 (WP version: NBER working paper no. 26879, 2020) 

The Lifetime Medical Spending of Retirees (with John Bailey Jones, Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and Justin Kirschner. Economic Quarterly (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Third Quarter 2018   (WP version: NBER working paper no. 24599, 2018)