Working Papers
Generational Persistence in the Effects of an Early Childhood Health Intervention. (with Sara Abrahamsson, Aline Butikofer and Katrine Loken). NBER Working Paper.
Selected Publications
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes? Journal of Economic Literature, 62(3): 891-947, September 2024.
Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health (with Chloe East, Sarah Miller and Laura Wherry), American Economic Review, 113(1): 98-135, January 2023.
The Effects of Aggregate and Gender-Specific Labor Demand Shocks on Child Health (with Jessamyn Schaller and David Simon), Journal of Human Resources, 54(1): 37-78, January 2019.
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality, (with Ann Stevens, Doug Miller, and Mateusz Filipski), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7(4):279-311, November 2015.
Can Targeted Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the Introduction of the WIC Program (with Hilary Hoynes and Ann Stevens), Journal of Public Economics, 95 (7-8): 813-827, August 2011.
Media Coverage: The Washington Post, White House Blog
Summary of this paper in NBER Digest
The Intergenerational Effects of Worker Displacement (with Philip Oreopoulos and Ann Stevens), Journal of Labor Economics, 26(3): 455-483, July 2008.