“Links Between Puzzles in Household Finance: Evidence from Employee Benefit Choices” (with Leora Friedberg and Brent Davis)
-Winner, 2024 Financial Literacy Research Award, Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute
“Fungibility in Workplace Benefits Choices: Evidence from Health Savings Accounts” (with Brent Davis and Andrew Gellert)
“New Evidence on the Relationship Between Consumption, Health, and Utility” (with Jessica Ya Sun)
“Health Saving Accounts, Life-Cycle Saving, and Liquidity” (with Leora Friedberg, Jaeki Jang, and Eric Young)
“The Virginia Work Requirements Experiment” (with Tim Layton and Adrianna McIntyre)
“The Impact of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions on Consumer Finances” (with Alex Adia, Ambar La Forgia, and Elena Prager)
PUBLICATIONS:
“Does Mandatory Retirement Saving Crowd Out Voluntary Retirement Saving?” (with Leora Friedberg and Wenqiang Cai)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024
“On Resource Allocation in Health Care: The Case of Concierge Medicine“ (with Molly Candon and Guy David)
Journal of Health Economics, 2023
Media coverage: CBS News, ABC News, KFF Health News #1 KFF Health News #2, Philadelphia Inquirer, American Council on Science and Health, Axios
“Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply“ (with Colin Gray, Elena Prager, Kelsey Pukelis, and Mary Zaki)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023
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Media coverage: NPR Marketplace, Washington Post, The Weeds, Business Insider, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Indicator from Planet Money, Center for Public Integrity World Food Policy Center
“Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts“
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022
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-Winner, 2022 TIAA Institute Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
Media coverage: 401Specialist, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, TIAA
“Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race” (with Chris Ruhm)
Journal of Human Capital, 2022
“Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated?” (with Chris Ruhm)
Journal of Health Economics, 2021
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“Wage Insurance and Labor Market Trajectories” (with Ben Hyman, Brian Kovak, and Theo Naff)
American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, 2021
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“Losses (and Gains) from Health Reform for Non-Medicaid Eligible Uninsureds” (with Scott Harrington and Mark Pauly)
Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2020
Media coverage: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Marginal Revolution
“Dying to Win? Olympic Gold Medals and Longevity”
Journal of Health Economics, 2018.
Media coverage:BBC, Quartz, Marginal Revolution
“A Cautionary Tale in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Perils and Pitfalls of Observational Data Analysis” (with Armando Franco, Dana Goldman, and Daniel McFadden) Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs. NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth. University of Chicago Press. 2018
“Sticker Shock in Individual Insurance under Health Reform?” (with Mark Pauly and Scott Harrington)
American Journal of Health Economics, 2015
Media coverage: Wall Street Journal,Washington Post
“Do National Cancer Screening Guidelines Reduce Mortality?” (with Thomas Stratmann)
Journal of Population Economics, 2015
“Plan Selection in Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data” (with Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter)
Journal of Health Economics, 2013
“The Unanticipated Consequences of Postponing the Employer Mandate” (with Mark Pauly)
New England Journal of Medicine, 2013
“Coping with Out-of-Pocket Health Payments: Empirical Evidence from 15 African Countries” (with Xu Ke)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008
“Financing Global Health: Mission Unaccomplished” (with George Schieber, Pablo Gottret, and Lisa Fleisher)
Health Affairs, 2007