Publications

Caregiving and Labor Force Participation: New Evidence from Administrative Data, Accepted, Journal of Labor Economics

with Nicole Maestas and Matt Messel

[NBER Working Paper No. 31450]


Paid Care Among Older Adults with Long-term Care Needs Declined in the First Year of COVID-19 While Families Stepped In Accepted, Health Affairs Scholar

with Emily Wiemers


Is All Caregiving Created Equal? A Comparison of Caregiving to Children and Adults AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 113, 2023.

with Corina Mommaerts [Online Appendix]


The Unintended Consequences of Childcare Subsidies for Older Women's Retirement Security Journal of Human Resources 58 (3) 2023


The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for An Aging U.S. Population  The Gerontologist, 2023

with  Vicki Freedman, Emily Agree, Judith Seltzer, Kira Birditt, Karen Fingerman, Esther Friedman, I-Fen Lin, Rachel Margolis, Sung Park, Sarah Patterson, Courtney Polenick, Corinne Reczek, Adriana Reyes, Emily Wiemers, Huijing Wu, Douglas Wolf, Jennifer Wolff, Steve Zarit 


Caregiving in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Well-being of Caregivers over 55 in the US Medical Care Research and Review, 79(5),2022

with Lindsay Kobayashi and Jessica Finlay 

[Washington Center for Equitable Growth Working Paper ]


Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13 (4), 2021

with Manoj Mohanan, Grant Miller, Katherine Donato, Marcos Vera-Hernández   

[NBER Working Paper No. 25499] 


The Cyclicality of Informal Care  Journal of Health Economics , 71 , 2020

with Corina Mommaerts


Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Wellbeing, US Adult Population, 2010-2016 , American Journal of Public Health 109 (9), 2019

with Onur Altindag, Lindsay Kobayashi and Lisa Berkman  


Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India  American Economic Review – Papers and Proceedings (May 2017)

        with Katherine Donato, Grant Miller, Manoj Mohanan, Yulya Truskinovsky, and Marcos Vera-Hernández

Working Papers

Not Just for Kids—Child and Dependent Care Credit Benefits for Elder Care (with Gabrielle Pepin)

February 2023 (Revise and Resubmit - National Tax Journal)

[Upjohn Institute Working Paper] [Non-technical policy brief]


Changes in Long-term Services and Supports Among Adults with and without Dementia During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Emily Wiemers, Vicki Freedman, Geoffrey Hoffman and Amanda Leggett)

October 2023 (under review)


Employment Shocks, Unemployment Insurance, and Caregiving

September 2022

[Center for Financial Security Working Paper] [Squared Away Blog]

Research in Progress 


Family Friendly Occupations and Later Life Caregiving (with Meghan Skira and Isabella Yerby)


Does Expanding Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care Improve Quality? Evidence from Wisconsin (with Corina Mommaerts, Mary Hamman, and Laura Dague)


Family Caregiving and Labor Supply: Evidence from ADRD-Related Deaths in Denmark (with Onur Altindag and Jane Greve)


Family Caregiving and Labor Supply in Latin America (with Dolores de la Mata, Ricardo Estrada and Marcos Vera-Hernandez)


The Power of the Pill for Women Working Longer