Publications
"Inequality in the Golden Years: Wealth Gradients in Disability-Free and Work-Free Longevity in the United States" with Hessam Bavafa & Anita Mukherjee. Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 92: 102820, 2023.
Coverage: TIAA Institute materials (here you'll find - in addition to other paper resources - a short, 5-page insights report on our paper; note the old title); Morningstar's The Long View podcast
Works in Progress
"Older Americans and Life Insurance" with SooJin Park
"Choice as Public Policy: Evidence from Optional Workers’ Compensation Coverage in Texas"
"The Welfare Effect of a Public Option in Workers' Compensation Insurance Markets" with Salpy Kanimian
"Scaling Up or Diversifying? Examining Economies of Scale and Scope in Workers’ Compensation" with Salpy Kanimian
Policy Reports & Other Writing
"If Congress doesn't save Social Security, you'll pay more than $6,800 a year instead" with J. Michael Collins. USA TODAY, 2025 (April). (OpEd)
Click here for the accompanying infographic of estimated costs by state.
"Changes to Social Security would cost average Wisconsin resident $7,000 a year" with J. Michael Collins. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2025 (April). (OpEd)
"Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Coverage (2022 data)" with Griffin T. Murphy and Michael Manley. National Academy of Social Insurance, 2024 (November). (principal investigator, lead author)
"Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Coverage (2021 data)" with Griffin T. Murphy, Jennifer Wolf, and Michael Manley. National Academy of Social Insurance, 2024 (February). (principal investigator, lead author)
Coverage: RAND; U.S. Department of Labor; Yahoo! Finance; OH&S (with comment from the Alaskan government); Risk & Insurance; WorkCompCentral; WorkCompWire; GlobeNewswire
"Social Security Retirement Earnings Test: How Earnings Affect Benefits" with Zhe Li. Congressional Research Service, Report #41242, 2019 (August). (lead author)
Presentations
2024
Ph.D. Student Research Symposium, University of Georgia - Athens, GA
American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting - Denver, CO
American Academy of Actuaries Annual Meeting - Washington, DC
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Fall Research Conference - National Harbor, MD
2023
American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting - Washington, DC
CINCH-dggö Academy in Health Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen - Essen, Germany
2022
American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting - Long Beach, CA
2021
29th Annual Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research, University of New South Wales and CEPAR