Breadwinning, Social Security, and Retirement Patterns Among Couples (with Siha Lee)
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2025An Empirical Study of the Well-being of Older Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea (with Selahattin Imrohoroglu)
The Japanese Economic Review, Special Issue: Demographic Change and Wellbeing in Japan and Asian Economies, 2024Why Are Older Men Working More? The Role of Social Security
Journal of Public Economics, 2024Online Appendices; Slides; HCEO Working Paper 2021-041; Media Coverage: Heller-Hurwicz Institute; Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research
On the Coexistence of Cryptocurrency and Fiat Money
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023WP Version; Slides; Media Coverage: Heller-Hurwicz Institute
Association of SNAP Retailers with Child Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Qingxiao Li, Shuoli Zhao, and Metin Çakır)
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, 2023Home Production and Leisure During the COVID-19 Recession (with Oksana Leukhina)
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Special Issue: The Macroeconomics of the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2022Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2020-025; HCEO Working Paper 2020-060; Media Coverage: HCEO; Bureau of Labor Statistics; St. Louis Public Radio; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Annual Report; Survey of Current Business, Bureau of Economics Analysis; NPR Planet Money
Association of Food Expenditure with Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014 (with Qingxiao Li, Shuai Yuan, Susanna C. Larsson, and Qiqiang He)
Nutrition, 2021Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation (with Abdoulaye Ndiaye) Summary Twitter Thread Project Website
Revise & Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of EconomicsPension Reforms, Longevity, and Late-Life Employment: Evidence from Sixteen Countries (with Selahattin Imrohoroglu)
Revise & Resubmit, The Journal of the Economics of AgeingInsurance Through Marriage: Case of Parental Health Shocks and Social Security Claiming (with Neha Bairoliya and Ray Miller)
Welfare Programs and the Time Allocation, Savings, and Child Quality of Single-Mother Families
Conference: ASSA; Richmond Macroeconomics Workshop; 2026. ASSA; WEAI; SEA; 2022.
Women at the Helm? Earnings Power and Retirement Decisions in Married Couples (with Siha Lee)
Conference: NBER Aging Program Meeting [Presentation]; 2026. WEAI; Structural Microeconomics Conference at Duke University; 2025.
Breaking Barriers: How Policies, Norms, and Preferences Shape Women's Labor Force Participation (with Abdoulaye Ndiaye)
Optimal Pension Reforms during Demographic Transitions (with Daniel Carroll, Sewon Hur, and Selahattin Imrohoroglu)
Home Production Activity during the COVID-19 Shutdown (with Oksana Leukhina)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Regional Economist, Third Quarter, 2020Media Coverage: St. Louis Fed On the Economy Blog; St. Louis Fed On the Economy Blog
COVID-19 and the Great Recession: Market Hours and Home Production across American Households (with Oksana Leukhina and Devin Werner)
St. Louis Fed On the Economy Blog, July 2020