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.

• • SSRN version

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

  • 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

Working Papers

"Access to Health Insurance and Social Security Claiming: Evidence from Medicaid Expansion" Preparing to submit

Works in Progress

"Beyond Demand: Understanding Life Insurance Payouts and Utilization" 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

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

• • Coverage: 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)