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Find a related paper by Dr. John Bound here. Title: Economic Distress and Growing Educational Disparities in Life Expectancy Abstract: Independent researchers have used various data sources and methodologies to document two disturbing trends: a halt to universal gains in life expectancy (LE) across US subpopulations, and a subsequent rise Read more…

Find the paper here. Title: Where Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution Abstract: Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with global economic consequences. The common pathways through which each harms health presents a case of compounding risk via interacting externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind Read more…

Find the paper here Title: Safety-net Primary Care Clinics and Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits Abstract: In this paper, I examine whether expanding access to safety-net primary care clinics (SNPCCs) has an impact on psychiatric emergency department (ED) utilization – defined as mental illness and substance use disorders, in California. Primary Read more…

Title: Games of Prejudice – Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin Abstract: We design a framed experiment to investigate labor market discrimination at the extensive margin (hiring stage) and the intensive margin (job offer stage). Our lab-in-the-field experiment, implemented in Slovakia, exogenously varies employer information and elicits employers’ beliefs Read more…

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: 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…