Working Papers
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, NBER Working Paper 23810, Revised February 2019
Media Coverage: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, NBER Digest, VOX, Brookings, Tradeoffs
Selected Publications
How Do Early Life Health Experiences Affect Future Generations’ Equality of Opportunity? (with Chloe East.) Forthcoming in “An Equal Start: Policy and Practice to Promote Equality of Opportunity for Children.” American Psychological Association edited volume.
Welfare Reform, 1834: Did the New Poor Law in England Produce Significant Economic Gains? (with Gregory Clark), Cliometrica, 13, 221-244, May 2019.
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.
NBER Working Paper Pre-Print Version
Cash for Kids (with Marianne Bitler and Annie Hines), Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(2): 43-73, February 2018.
Media Coverage: Institute for Research on Poverty’s Focus
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.
War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and the World War II G.I. Bill, (with Matthew Larsen, T.J. McCarthy, Jeremy Moulton, and Ankur Patel), Demography, 52(5): 1431-1461, October 2015.
Estimating the Distributional Effects of Education Reforms: A Look at Project STAR (with Erika Felts), Economics of Education Review, 32: 92-103, February 2013.
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
Sex and Science: How Professor Gender affects the Gender Gap (with Scott Carrell and Jim West), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (3): 1101-1144, August 2010.
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Summary of this paper in NBER Digest
Why Are Recessions Good for your Health? (with Doug Miller, Ann Stevens, and Mateusz Filipski), American Economic Review, 99(2): 122-127, May 2009.
Summary of this paper in NBER Digest
Parental Income Shocks and Outcomes of Disadvantaged Youth in the United States (with Ann Stevens and Jason Lindo), in An Economic Perspective on the Problems of Disadvantaged Youth, Jonathan Gruber, Editor; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2009: 213-235.
The Intergenerational Effects of Worker Displacement (with Philip Oreopoulos and Ann Stevens), Journal of Labor Economics, 26(3): 455-483, July 2008.
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Does Human Capital Transfer from Parent to Child? The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling. (with Philip Oreopoulos and Ann Stevens), Journal of Labor Economics, 24(4): 729-760, October 2006.
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Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations (with Hilary Hoynes and Ann Stevens), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(1): 47-68, Winter 2006.
Correlations between Sisters and Neighboring Girls in Their Subsequent Income as Adults (with Gary Solon), The Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18(5): 545-562, September/October 2003.
Correlations between Brothers and Neighboring Boys in Their Adult Earnings: The Importance of Being Urban (with Gary Solon), The Journal of Labor Economics, 21(4): 831-855, October 2003.
Correlations between Neighboring Children in Their Subsequent Educational Attainment (with Gary Solon and Greg Duncan); The Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(3), 383-392, August 2000.