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Research

Published and accepted papers

1

Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions

with Kathleen McKiernan

THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES · accepted

2

Exercise or Extra Fries? How Behavior Impacts Health Over the Life Cycle

with Vegard Nygaard and Ray Miller

JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION · accepted

3

End-of-Life Liquidity

with Giovanni Gallipoli and Kathleen McKiernan

JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS · conditionally accepted

4

Consumption Smoothing and Household Savings: Role of Demographics and Durables

with Areendam Chanda, Fang Yang, and Jingyi Fang

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS · 2026, vol. 184, 103894

5

The Welfare Costs of Misinformation

with Kathleen McKiernan

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS AND CONTROL · 2024, 104959

6

Health, Longevity, and Welfare Inequality of the Elderly

with Ray Miller

THE REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS · 2023, vol. 105, issue 5

7

Macroeconomic Consequences of Stay-at-Home Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

with Ayse Imrohoroglu

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW · 2023, vol. 152, 104266

8

Demographic Transition, Human Capital and Economic Growth in China

with Ray Miller

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS AND CONTROL · 2021, vol. 127

THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES

Distribution of Social Security claiming ages by education, with 95 percent confidence intervals. From "Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions."

JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

Four-year transition probabilities between diet quality groups. From "Exercise or Extra Fries? How Behavior Impacts Health Over the Life Cycle."

JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS

Lifetime Social Security benefits and contributions by income and marital status. From "End-of-Life Liquidity."

9

Parental Caregivers and Household Power Dynamics

with Ray Miller

FEMINIST ECONOMICS · 2021

10

Social Insurance, Demographics, and Rural-Urban Migration in China

with Ray Miller

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS · 2021, vol. 91

11

Pension Plan Heterogeneity and Retirement Behavior

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW · 2019, vol. 116, pp. 28–59

12

Health Disparities and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Elderly Life-Cycle Consumption

with Ray Miller and David Canning

JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMICS OF AGEING · 2019, vol. 14, 100176

13

The Macroeconomic and Welfare Implications of Rural Health Insurance and Pension Reforms in China

with Ray Miller, David Canning, and Akshar Saxena

JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMICS OF AGEING · 2018, vol. 11, pp. 71–92

14

Causes of Death and Infant Mortality Rates Among Full-Term Births in the United States Between 2010 and 2012: An Observational Study

with Gunther Fink

PLOS MEDICINE · 2018, vol. 15(3), e1002531

Working papers

1

Insurance Through Marriage: Case of Parental Health Shocks and Social Security Claiming

with Ray Miller and Zhixiu Yu

UNDER REVIEW

2

Consumer Learning and the Entry of Generic Pharmaceuticals

with Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Jeffrey McCullough, and Amil Petrin

NBER WORKING PAPER 23662

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