My fields of interest are industrial organization, health economics, public economics and economic history. Here is a link to my current research statement.
Publications
Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
NBER Working Paper 24663 and CEPR Discussion Paper 14394
Accepted Review of Economics and Statistics
U.S. Postal Savings Banks and the Collapse of B&Ls During the Great Depression
with Matthew Jaremski and Steven Sprick Schuster
Center for Growth and Opportunity, Working paper 2020.005
Southern Economic Journal, 89, 2023
Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
with Andres Dean and Mariana Zerpa
IZA Discussion Paper 12982
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3)
Incumbent Regulation and Adverse Selection: You Can Keep Your Health Plan, But at What Cost?
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 205
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s
with Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80
NBER Working Paper 25246
Economic crisis and the demise of a popular contractual form: Building & Loans in the 1930s
with Price Fishback and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018, 36
NBER Working Paper 21786
Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
NBER Working Paper 24663 and CEPR Discussion Paper 14394
Accepted Review of Economics and Statistics
U.S. Postal Savings Banks and the Collapse of B&Ls During the Great Depression
with Matthew Jaremski and Steven Sprick Schuster
Center for Growth and Opportunity, Working paper 2020.005
Southern Economic Journal, 89, 2023
Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
with Andres Dean and Mariana Zerpa
IZA Discussion Paper 12982
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3)
Incumbent Regulation and Adverse Selection: You Can Keep Your Health Plan, But at What Cost?
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 205
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s
with Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80
NBER Working Paper 25246
Economic crisis and the demise of a popular contractual form: Building & Loans in the 1930s
with Price Fishback and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018, 36
NBER Working Paper 21786
Working papers
Difference-in-Differences in Equilibrium: Evidence from Place-Based Policies
with Guillermo Alves and William Burton (submitted)
Who Benefits when inertia is reduced?: Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets
CEPR Discussion Paper 14292
Revise and Resubmit American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Dynamic Competition and Price Regulation When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Medicare Part D
The costs of lock-in in health care markets: evidence from hospital choice in Uruguay
Selection, Subsidies, and Welfare in Health Insurance: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance Versus the ACA Marketplaces
with Caitlyn Fleming, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
Difference-in-Differences in Equilibrium: Evidence from Place-Based Policies
with Guillermo Alves and William Burton (submitted)
Who Benefits when inertia is reduced?: Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets
CEPR Discussion Paper 14292
Revise and Resubmit American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Dynamic Competition and Price Regulation When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Medicare Part D
The costs of lock-in in health care markets: evidence from hospital choice in Uruguay
Selection, Subsidies, and Welfare in Health Insurance: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance Versus the ACA Marketplaces
with Caitlyn Fleming, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
Work in progress
Markups and Mergers in the US Hospital Industry
with Jan De Loecker
The Power of Exclusion: Pharmacy Networks and Bargaining in Medicare Part D
with Gautam Gowrisankaran, Amanda Starc, Ashley Swanson and Robert Town
Static and Dynamic Incentives in Selection Markets
with Juan Pablo Atal and Eduardo Azevedo
Quality Based Prices and Multidimensional Quality: Evidence from English Family Doctors
with Enrico Camarda
Regulation by Public Options: Evidence from Pension Funds
with Pablo Blanchard and Rodrigo Gonzalez-Valdenegro
Markups and Mergers in the US Hospital Industry
with Jan De Loecker
The Power of Exclusion: Pharmacy Networks and Bargaining in Medicare Part D
with Gautam Gowrisankaran, Amanda Starc, Ashley Swanson and Robert Town
Static and Dynamic Incentives in Selection Markets
with Juan Pablo Atal and Eduardo Azevedo
Quality Based Prices and Multidimensional Quality: Evidence from English Family Doctors
with Enrico Camarda
Regulation by Public Options: Evidence from Pension Funds
with Pablo Blanchard and Rodrigo Gonzalez-Valdenegro