Title: The Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion Find the paper here.
Find the paper here. Title: How do hospitals respond to payment incentives? Abstract: A recent literature finds that hospitals “upcode” when doing so increases revenues, suggesting that incomplete information creates substantial distortions. However, reporting complete information is itself costly. We examine the impact of both revenues and coding costs on Read more…
You can find the paper here. Title: International Migrants and the Human Capital Formation of Their Left-Behind Children Abstract: International migration can disrupt families and affect the human capital investment of left behind children. Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, I document that mothers with husbands in the Read more…
You can find the paper here. Title: The Aggregate Effects of Global and Local Supply Chain Disruptions: 2020–2022 Abstract: We study the aggregate effects of supply-chain disruptions in the post-pandemic period in a heterogeneous-firm, general equilibrium model with input-output linkages and a rich set of supply chain frictions: uncertain shipping Read more…
You can find the paper here. Title: The Composition of Capital Inflows and Optimal Monetary Policy in Sudden-Stop Economies Abstract: Accounting for different types of capital flows, this paper studies whether monetary policy in emerging market economies should be prudential—i.e., deviate from price stability to induce agents to borrow less Read more…
You can find the paper here. Title: Contracting out Labor Market Dynamism Abstract: This paper investigates how domestic outsourcing affects plant-level labor responses to revenue productivity shocks and biases the measurement of aggregate job reallocations. I develop a methodology to transform reported expenses on temporary and leased workers into plant-level Read more…
You can find the paper here. Title: Commuting and the Value of Marriage Abstract: Over time, as metro-areas sprawled to the suburbs, long commutes became common. In this paper I combine motivating evidence with a structural model to show how policies resulting in long commutes affect singles differently than couples Read more…
You can find the paper here. Title: Misallocation in the Market for Inventors Abstract: How much misallocation is there in the market for inventors? This paper introduces a novel growth model where firms search for inventors in a frictional labor market, and where the efficiency of innovation depends on the Read more…
You can find the paper here. Title: How Will a New Malaria Vaccine Shape Africa’s Economic Future? A Macroeconomic Analysis Abstract: Malaria is the primary cause of death among children and a barrier to childhood human capital accumulation in sub-Saharan Africa. The macroeconomics literature thus far concludes that eradicating malaria Read more…
Title: Removing the Mark: Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation Abstract: We investigate whether removing or reducing the severity of a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. Using quasi-experimental strategies and a field experiment, we estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted Read more…