Research
Research Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Economics
Publications:
"Social Security Reform with Heterogeneous Mortality", with John Bailey Jones, Review of Economic Dynamics, April 2023
"Recovery from the COVID-19 Recession: Uneven Effects among Young Workers?" with Pinka Chatterji, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, March 2023
"Effects of COVID-19 on School Enrollment" with Pinka Chatterji , Economics of Education Review, August 2021
"Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient providers in the United States" with Pinka Chatterji, Medical Care, January 2021
"Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs" , with Manasi Deshpande, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2019
Received American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Best Paper Award
"Lifecycle Consumption Under Different Income Profiles: Evidence and Theory" with John Duffy. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, July 2019
"Economic Analysis of Social Security Survivors Insurance," International Economic Review, November 2018
"The Effects of Collecting Income Taxes on Social Security Benefits" with John Bailey Jones, Journal of Public Economics, March 2018.
Coverage in Economic Brief by the Richmond Fed
"Paradoxical Effects of Increasing the Normal Retirement Age: A Prospective Evaluation," European Economic Review, 2018 January.
“Early coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act and Supplemental Security Income participation" with Pinka Chatterji. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2017 December
Working Papers:
"Do Tax Deferred Accounts Improve Lifecycle Savings? Experimental Evidence", with John Duffy, Conditionally accepted, The Review of Economics and Statistics
"The Affordable Care Act and Disability Insurance", April 2015
Work In Progress:
"Designing Social Security Claiming Incentives: Experimental Evidence", with John Duffy,