Research

My academic research primarily focuses on topics in labor and health economics, but my interests range widely and I enjoy working on projects that straddle disciplinary boundaries, Some of my current projects involve the measurement of union membership over time at a fine geographic level, the effects of collective bargaining on retirement outcomes, the dynamics of monopsony power in labor markets, and the economic impact of (Long) Covid.

Working Papers and Preprints

• “Shielding under endemic SARS-CoV-2 conditions is easier said than done: a model-based analysis,” with Madison Stoddard, Lin Yuan, Sharanya Sarkar, Debra van Egeren, Shruthi Mangalaganesh, Ryan P. Nolan, Michael S. Rogers, Greg Hather, Laura F. White, and Arijit Chakravarty. January 2023. medRxiv, 2023-01.

• “Health Spending Slowed Down in Spite of the Crisis,” with Marco Di Maggio, Andrew Haughwout, Amir Kermani, and Maxim Pinkovskiy. June 2016 (revised October 2019). FRB of NY Staff Report No. 781.

Works-in-Progress

• “Causes of Union Decline in the United States: Evidence from a Novel County-Level Dataset," with Brendan Moore and Suresh Naidu.

• “Do Firms in Canada Exploit All of their Wage-Setting Power?” with Len Goff. Research funded by grant from McMaster University Productivity Partnership.

• “Monopsony in Minnesota: Rent-Sharing and Labor Supply Consequences of a Nursing Home Reimbursement Reform," with Len Goff.

• “Prevalence and Economic Burden of Myodesopsia/Symptomatic Vitreous Opacities Among Adults in the United States," with Amir R. Hajrasouliha, J. Sebag, and Michael Smith.

• “The Effects of Union Membership on Inequality and Well-Being in Retirement."

Publications

• “Stepping Stone or Quicksand? The Role of Consumer Debt in the U.S. Geography of Economic Mobility,” with Meta Brown. In Economic Mobility: Research and Ideas on Strengthening Families, Communities, and the Economy. A. Brown, D. Buchholz, D. Davis, & A. Gonzalez (eds). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2016.

Web articles

From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a research assistant in the Research and Statistics Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where I coauthored the following web articles for the FRBNY Research blog:

• “Trends in Debt Concentration in the United States By Income," with Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Basit Zafar. FRBNY, Liberty Street Economics, November 5, 2015.

• “The Capitol Since the Nineteenth Century: Political Polarization and Income Inequality in the United States," with Rajashri Chakrabarti. FRBNY, Liberty Street Economics, June 26, 2014.