Research
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: Rationalizing Demand and Understanding Payout Utilization Among Surviving Spouses" with SooJin Park
"Government Involvement in a Mandated Insurance Market: The Case of Workers’ Compensation Insurance"
"Compensating Differentials: Evidence from Optional Workers’ Compensation Coverage in Texas”
"Changes in the Social Security Full Retirement Age: Benefit Reductions and Offsets from Working Longer" with Daniel W. Sacks
Policy Reports & Other Writing
"Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Coverage (2021 data)" with Griffin T. Murphy, Jennifer Wolf, and Michael Manley. National Academy of Social Insurance, 2024. (principal investigator, lead author)
Coverage: U.S. Department of Labor; Yahoo! Finance; OH&S (with comment from the Alaskan government); Risk & Insurance; WorkCompCentral; WorkCompWire; The Bakersfield Californian; GlobeNewswire
"Social Security Retirement Earnings Test: How Earnings Affect Benefits" with Zhe Li. Congressional Research Service, Report #41242, 2019. (lead author)
Presentations
2024
Ph.D. Student Research Symposium, University of Georgia - Athens, GA (in-person)
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)