Research

Working Papers

“Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes,” NBER WP Jan 2021, with Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Molly Schnell
Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

“Germs in the Family: The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread,” NBER WP Nov 2021, with Meltem Daysal, Hui Ding, and Maya Rossin-Slater
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review

“Socio-Economic Decline and Death: The Life-Cycle Impacts of Recessions for Labor Market Entrants,” NEW VERSION April 2023, with Till von Wachter

“The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-utero Exposure and Labor Market Outcomes,” Dec 2019 (CEPR Discussion Paper 12653)

“Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination,” NBER WP July 2022, with Caroline Chuard, Alexander Becker, and Masahiko Haraguchi

Publications

“The Covid-19 Baby Bump in the United States,” 2023, with Martha Bailey and Janet Currie
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 120 (34), 2023

“The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating,”
with Diane Alexander
Review of Economic Studies 89(6): 2872-2910, 2022

“Changes in the Relationship Between Income and Life Expectancy Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, California, 2015-2021” (lead author), with Janet Currie, Till von Wachter, Jonathan Kowalski, Derek Chapman, and Steven H. Woolf
JAMA 328(4):360-366, 2022

“Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018” (lead author), with Janet Currie, Marlies Bär, James Banks, Paola Bertoli, Aline Bütikofer, Sarah Cattan, Beatrice Zong-Ying Chao, Claudia Costa, Libertad Gonzalez, Veronica Grembi, Kristiina Huttunen, René Karadakic, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Stefano Lombardi, Peter Redler, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Ana Rodríguez-González, Kjell Salvanes, Paula Santana, Josselin Thuilliez, Eddy van Doorslaer, Tom Van Ourti, Joachim Winter, Bram Wouterse, and Amelie Wuppermann
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118(40), 2021

“The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed,” with Janet Currie
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 695(1):276-291, 2021

“Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use,“ with Maya Rossin-Slater, Molly Schnell, Sam Trejo, and Lindsey Uniat
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117(38), 2020.

“Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right,” with Zhuan Pei and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 37(2), 2019.

“Unlucky Cohorts: Estimating the Long-term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-sectional Data Sets,”  with Till von Wachter
Journal of Labor Economics 37(1), 2019. >Media coverage

“Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations,”
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(4), 2018.

“Inequality in Mortality Decreased Among the Young While Increasing for Older Adults, 1990–2010,” with Janet Currie
Science 352(6286), 2016.  >Media coverage, Note on 1990 Census population count

Cross-country extensions of Science (2016) paper:

“The Evolution of Mortality Inequality in 11 OECD Countries,” with James Banks, Janet Currie, Sonya Krutikova, and Kjell G. Salvanes
Fiscal Studies 42(1), 9-23, 2021

“Inequality in Mortality: Updated Estimates for the United States, Canada and France,” with Michael Baker, Janet Currie, Boriana Miloucheva, and Josselin Thuilliez
Fiscal Studies 42(1), 25-46, 2021

“Geographic Inequality in Income and Mortality in Germany,” with Peter Redler, Amelie Wuppermann, Joachim Winter, and Janet Currie
Fiscal Studies 42(1), 147-170, 2021

“Pauvreté, Egalité, Mortalité: Mortality (In)Equality in France and the United States,” with Janet Currie and Josselin Thuilliez
Journal of Population Economics 33(1), 2020

“Mortality Inequality in Canada and the U.S.: Divergent or Convergent Trends?” with Michael Baker and Janet Currie
Journal of Labor Economics 37(2), 2019

“Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach,” with Janet Currie
Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(2), 2016. >Media coverage

“The Youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis in Germany, its Regional Correlates and International Comparison,” with Amelie Wuppermann
Labour Economics 43(2), 2016. >Media coverage

“The 9/11 Dust Cloud and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Reconsideration,” with Janet Currie
Journal of Human Resources 51(4), 2016. >Media coverage

“Income and Population Growth,” with Markus Brückner
Economic Journal 124(589), 2015.

“Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Wellbeing,”
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 122(1), 2016. >Media coverage

“Short- and Long-term Effects of Unemployment on Fertility,” with Janet Currie
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 111(41), 2014. >Media coverage

“Within-mother Analysis of Seasonal Patterns in Health at Birth,” with Janet Currie
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 110(30), 2013. >Media coverage