Research

Publications

"Inequality in the Golden Years: Wealth Gradients in Disability-Free and Work-Free Longevity in the United States"  Accepted, Journal of Health Economics

• • Joint with: Hessam Bavafa & Anita Mukherjee

  • SCOR/EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award (finalist)

  • 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, which changed before journal publication)

Working Papers

"Access to Health Insurance and Social Security Claiming: Evidence from Medicaid Expansion" Under Review

Works in Progress

"Beyond Demand: Understanding Life Insurance Payouts and Utilization" with SooJin Park

"Changes in the Social Security Full Retirement Age: Benefit Reductions and Offsets from Working Longer" with Daniel W. Sacks

Policy Reports & Other Writing

"Social Security Retirement Earnings Test: How Earnings Affect Benefits," with Z. Li, Congressional Research Service (2019), Report #41242.

• • In the news: FEDWeek

  • Notes: Updated versions of this report are available here (the reports are updated, as congressional resources, regularly by  full-time analysts).

Presentations

2023

• American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting - Washington, DC (in-person)

• CINCH-dggö Academy in Health Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen - Essen, Germany (in-person) 

2022

• American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting - Long Beach, CA (in-person)

2021

• 29th Annual Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research, UNSW and CEPAR (virtual, synchronous)