Publications

Publications

  • [2025] “Short Planning Horizons and the Save More Tomorrow Program” with Scott Findley. [working paper version; gated link] Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • [2025] “The Case for Borrowing Against Future Social Security Wealth” with Steve Swidler. [working paper version; gated link] Contemporary Economics Policy
  • [2024] “Economics is What Economist Do: Exposing Principles of Economics Students to Economic Research and Researchers.” [open access link] Journal of Economics Teaching
  • [2024] “Dynamic Optimization with Timing Risk” with Frank Caliendo, [open access: link] Mathematics
  • [2024] “To Plan or Not to Plan? Optimal Planning and Saving for Retirement”, with Seth Neumuller, and Yashna Shivdasani*, [working paper version; gated link], Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • [2023] “Social Security Safety Net with Rare Event Risk” with Frank Caliendo [working paper version; gated link], Marcroeconomic Dynamics
  • [2022] “Welfare Effects of Automatic IRAs” (research assistance from Joe Polifonte*, Pooja Kumar*, and Elina Huang* research poster), [working paper version; gated link] Contemporary Economic Policy
  • [2022] “Social Security and Risk Sharing: The Role of Economic Mobility Across Generation” with Frank Caliendo, [working paper version; gated link ] International Tax and Public Finance
  • [2022] “Social Security and Risk Sharing: A Survey of Four Decades of Economic Analysis” with Frank Caliendo, [working paper version; gated link ] Journal of Economic Surveys 
  • [2021] “Social Security and Longevity Risk: An Analysis of Couples” with Frank Caliendo, [working paper version; gated link] Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • [2021] “Adaptive Learning, Social Security Reform, and Policy Uncertainty”  [working paper version; gated link] Journal of Money Credit and Banking
  • [2021] Social Security and Longevity Risk: The Case of Risky Bequest Income” with Frank Caliendo [working paper version; gated link] Macroeconomic Dynamics
  • [2020] “Social Security Reform: Three Rawlsian Options” with Frank Caliendo [ working paper version; gated link] International Tax and Public Finance

*indicate undergraduate research student