Working Papers

Research Papers

• Intergenerational Correlations in Longevity, January 2024 (joint with Sandra Black, Neil Duzett, Nolan Pope and Joseph Price).

• The Persistent Effects of Decreasing Labor Market Discrimination, December 2022 (joint with Anna Aizer, Ryan Boone and Jonathan Vogel).

• The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran and Pauline Rossi)

• The Effect of WWII on the Longevity of the Black Population, March 2024 (joint with Joseph Price, Tommy Morgan and William Wygal)

• Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality Overtime in France, April 2024 (joint with Florian Bonnet, Josselin Thuillez and Dahai Yue).

• Long-run Patterns in the Spousal Correlation of Lifespan, September 2024 (joint with Jacob Hutchings, Joshua Nicholls, Joseph Price and Sven Wilson)

• The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families: New Estimates using Larger Samples and New Methods (joint with Anna Aizer, Sungwoo Cho, Shari Eli and Joseph Ferrie)

• The Long-Term Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Adult Mortality (joint with Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Joseph Price and Dahai Yue).

• Nurses and the Health of the Community: Evidence from Public Support of Nurse Training (joint with Anna Aizer)

  Invited Papers

• The Rise of Social Safety Nets and Social Insurance in the West: Implications for Developing Countries, September 2023 (joint with Anna Aizer, Price Fishback and Tauhidur Rahman)

Old WP:

• Economic Conditions and Mortality: Evidence from 200 Years of Data September 2016 (joint with David Cutler and Wei Huang) Appendix

• Access To Care, Provider Choice And Racial Disparities In Infant Mortality July 2004 version. An older version is also available as NBER Working Paper #10445, April 2004. (joint with Anna Aizer and Mark Stabile)