Working Papers

Research Papers

• The Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Life Expectancy, October 2025 (joint with Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Joseph Price and Dahai Yue). Appendix.

• The Association Between Income and Adult Life Expectancy in the United States Emerged in the Mid 20th Century, October 2025 (joint with Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Joseph Price, Dahai Yue and Carson Zhang).

• Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan in the US, April 2025 (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).

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

• 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)

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

• The Effects of Long Term Exposure to Pollution on Health (joint with Joshua Graff Zivin, Johnny Huynh, Matthew Neidell and Timothy F. Justicz)

• The Production of Health from Craddle to Grave: Evidence from Sweden (joint with Martin Fisher, Timothy Halliday, and Martin Karlsson)

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)