Working Papers

• Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread
  Joint with N. Meltem Daysal, Hui Ding, and Hannes Schwandt.
  Conditionally Accepted at the American Economic Review.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 29524, IZA Discussion Paper No. 18078, RF Berlin Discussion Paper No. 56/25.
  
  Press coverage:
  Econimate Video; IZA World of Labor; VoxEU; Fortune; Yahoo Finance; ParentData
  
  
• The Labor Market and Health Impacts of Reducing Cesarean Section Deliveries
  Joint with Sarah Miller, Petra Persson, and Laura Wherry.
  Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of Human Resources.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 34556.
  
  
• Managed Care in Medicaid's Long-Term Services and Supports
  Joint with Ajin Lee, Becky Staiger, and Amanda Su.
  
  
• The Impact of Preschool Entry Age on Children's Behavioral and Developmental Health in Medicaid
  Joint with Adrienne Sabety and Aileen Wu.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 34677.
  
  Press coverage:
  SIEPR News
  
  
• Access to Abortion Care and Low-Income Women's Health: Evidence from Medicaid Beneficiaries
  Joint with Katja Hofmann, Caitlin Myers, and Becky Staiger.
  Draft coming soon.
  
  

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
  Joint with Kate Kennedy-Moulton, Sarah Miller, Petra Persson, Laura Wherry, and Gloria Aldana.
  Forthcoming at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
  Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 30693, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15745.
  
  Press coverage:
  The New York Times (1); The New York Times (2); The New York Times (3); Economic Report of the President, 2024; CNN The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (12/17/2023 episode); YahooNews; MSNBC Morning Joe (2/13/2023 episode); Econofact Podcast; SIEPR News; Politico; MarketWatch; Futurity; Medscape
  
  
• The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks
  Joint with Courtney Coile and Amanda Su.
  Forthcoming at the Journal of Human Resources.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 30739, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15783.
  
  Press coverage:
  LAist; KQED; Washington Center for Equitable Growth
  
  
• Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
  Joint with Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Molly Schnell, and Hannes Schwandt.
  Forthcoming at the Review of Economic Studies.
  Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 28311, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13988.
  
  Press coverage:
  SIEPR News; Stanford Health Policy; New York Times; New York Times Magazine; The Economist; Economic Report of the President, 2025; The White House Blog; The Boston Globe (op-ed); The Nation; The Weeds Podcast (starts at 43:48); Freakonomics MD Podcast; Stanford Medcast (Episode 45); MarketWatch; The Conversation; PBS Newshour; Yahoo! Life; Houston Chronicle; The74; WebMD
  
  
• Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians' Practice Locations Before and After the Dobbs Decision
  Joint with Becky Staiger, Valentin Bolotnyy, Sonya Borrero, Jessica Van Parys, and Caitlin Myers.
  JAMA Network Open, 8(3): e251608, April 2025.
  
  Press coverage:
  CNN; UC Berkeley Public Health Research Highlight
  
  
• Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD
  Joint with Petra Persson and Xinyao Qiu.
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17(2): 225-256, April 2025.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 28334, IZA Discussion Paper No. 14020.
  
  Press coverage:
  SIEPR News; Stanford Health Policy
  
  
• The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Employers: Evidence from New York
  Joint with Ann Bartel, Christopher Ruhm, Meredith Slopen, and Jane Waldfogel.
  Community, Work & Family, 28(2), 153-171, April 2025.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 28672, IZA Discussion Paper No. 14262.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times; New Republic; PPI Interview; SIEPR News; Stanford Health Policy; MarketWatch; Phys.org
  
  
• When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
  Joint with Petra Persson.
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(4): 186-219, October 2024.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 25902, IZA Discussion Paper No. 12386.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times (1); New York Times (2); The White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis; VoxEU; KCBS Radio; Econofact Podcast; Business Insider; Parents Magazine; Financial Advisor IQ; Euronews; Vanity Fair (Italian); Folha De S. Paulo (Brazil); Pulse (Ghana); Jezebel; ScaryMommy; Medical Daily; Romper; The Swaddle; Newser; MedicalXPress; Palo Alto Online; AJ+; Scope Blog; Inside Stanford Medicine; SIEPR News; Dagens Nyheter (German); Sveriges Radio (Swedish); Expressen (Swedish); Aftonbladet (Swedish); Omni (Swedish); Femina (Swedish); Mabra (Swedish); Norrkopings Tidning (Swedish); Affarsliv (Swedish)
  
  
• Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program
  Joint with Martha Bailey, Hilary Hoynes, and Reed Walker.
  Review of Economic Studies, 91(3):1291-1330, May 2024.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 26942.
  Main Replication Package Replication Addendum: Non-Census Public Data
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times; NBER Digest; Economic Report of the President, 2023; Aspen Economic Strategy: Building a More Resilient US Economy, 2023
  
  
• Association Between Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines and Preterm Delivery Among Females Aged 18 to 24 Years
  Joint with Rebecca Bromley-Dulfano and M. Kate Bundorf.
  JAMA Health Forum, 4(7):e231974, July 2023.
  
  Press coverage:
  Summary of coverage on JAMA Network
  
  
• The Impacts of Paid Family and Medical Leave on Worker Health, Family Well-Being, and Employer Outcomes
  Joint with Ann Bartel, Christopher Ruhm, Meredith Slopen, and Jane Waldfogel.
  Annual Review of Public Health, 44:429-443, April 2023.
  
  
• Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers
  Joint with Sarah Bana, Kelly Bedard, and Jenna Stearns.
  Journal of Econometrics, 233(2): 633-660, April 2023.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 25163, IZA Discussion Paper No. 11882.
  
  Press coverage:
  LAist
  
  
• Efficiency Versus Equity in the Provision of In-Kind Benefits: Evidence from Cost Containment in the California WIC Program
  Joint with Katherine Meckel and Lindsey Uniat.
  Journal of Human Resources, 58(2): 363-392, March 2023.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 26718, IZA Discussion Paper No. 12957.
  
  
• Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Interpregnancy Interval
  Joint with Can Liu, Jonathan M. Snowden, Florencia Torche, Julia D. DiTosto, and Suzan L. Carmichael.
  Women's Health Issues, 32(3): 226-234, May-June 2022.
  
  
• Violence While in Utero: The Impacts of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes
  Joint with Janet Currie and Michael Mueller-Smith.
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 104(3): 525-540, May 2022.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 24802, IZA Discussion Paper No. 11655.
  
  Press coverage:
  Probable Causation Podcast; SIEPR News; Stanford Health Policy News; Scope Blog; MedicalXpress
  
  
• Support for Paid Family Leave Among Small Employers Increases During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Joint with Ann Bartel, Christopher Ruhm, Meredith Slopen, and Jane Waldfogel.
  Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 7:1-8, December 2021; DOI: 10.1177/23780231211061959.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 29486.
  
  Press coverage:
  Washington Post; NPR Marketplace; Bloomberg; Forbes; SIEPR News
  
  
• What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Temperature on Maternal Health
  Joint with Jiyoon Kim and Ajin Lee.
  American Journal of Health Economics, 7(3): Summer 2021; DOI: 10.1086/714359.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 26384, IZA Discussion Paper No. 12685.
  
  Press coverage:
  Stanford Health Policy News; MarketWatch; MIT Technology Review; Journalist's Resource
  
  
• Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use
  Joint with Molly Schnell, Hannes Schwandt, Sam Trejo, and Lindsey Uniat.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38): 23484-23489, September 2020; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000804117.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 26563, IZA Discussion Paper No. 12837.
  
  SIEPR Videos about the Research:
  The silent cost of school shootings
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times; U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on Firearm Violence, 2024; Washington Post; New York Times Magazine; Economic Report of the President, 2025; The White House Blog; LA Times; The Boston Globe (op-ed); Scientific American; The Economist; The Nation; CBS Bay Area; KCBS Radio; Freakonomics MD Podcast; Stanford Medcast (Episode 45); San Jose Mercury News; The Hill; WTTW News; MarketWatch; The Conversation; PBS Newshour; Yahoo! Life; Houston Chronicle; WebMD; PsyPost; MedicalXPress; Sentinel Source; Campus Security and Life Safety; Mad in America; Northwestern Now; Scope Blog; SIEPR News; Stanford Daily; NBER Digest
  
  
• The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data
  Joint with Sarah Bana and Kelly Bedard.
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 39(4): 888-929, Fall 2020.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 24438, IZA Discussion Paper No. 11381.
  
  
• What is the Added Value of Preschool for Poor Children? Long-Term and Intergenerational Impacts and Interactions with an Infant Health Intervention
  Joint with Miriam Wüst.
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(3): 255-286, July 2020.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 22700, IZA Discussion Paper No. 10254.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times
  
  
• Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic
  Joint with Miriam Gensowski, Torben H. Nielsen, Nete M. Nielsen, and Miriam Wüst.
  Journal of Health Economics, 66: 27-36, July 2019.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 24753, IZA Discussion Paper No. 11630.
  
  
• Paid Family Leave Policies and Population Health
  Joint with Lindsey Uniat.
  Health Affairs Health Policy Brief, March 2019.
  
  Press coverage:
  Stanford Health Policy News
  
  
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to and Use of Paid Family and Medical Leave: Evidence from Four Nationally Representative Datasets
  Joint with Ann Bartel, Soohyun Kim, Jaehyun Nam, Christopher Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel.
  Monthly Labor Review, 142:1, January 2019.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times
  
  
• The Transition to Parenthood as a Critical Window for Adult Health
  Joint with Darby Saxbe and Diane Goldenberg.
  American Psychologist, 73(9): 1190-1200, December 2018.
  
  
• Does Managed Care Widen Infant Health Disparities? Evidence from Texas Medicaid
  Joint with Ilyana Kuziemko and Katherine Meckel.
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(3): 255-283, August 2018.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 19198.
  
  
• Parental Responses to Child Support Obligations: Evidence from Administrative Data
  Joint with Miriam Wüst.
  Journal of Public Economics, 164: 183-196, August 2018.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 22227.
  
  
• Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation
  Joint with Petra Persson.
  American Economic Review, 108(4-5):1214-52, April 2018.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 22229.
  Comment Reply
  
  Press coverage:
  The Washington Post; Stanford Health Policy News; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Quartz: Discrete Choice (Janet Currie interview); Tech Times; Ekonomistas (in Swedish); Expressen (in Swedish)
  
  
• Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households
  Joint with Ann Bartel, Christopher Ruhm, Jenna Stearns, and Jane Waldfogel.
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 37(1): 10-37, Winter 2018.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 21747, IZA Discussion Paper No. 9530.
  
  Press coverage:
  ThinkProgress; CNBC; New York Times; Yahoo; Huffington Post; PBS Newshour; Jezebel; NBER Digest
  
  
• Relationship Between Season of Birth, Temperature Exposure, and Later Life Well-Being
  Joint with Adam Isen and Reed Walker.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(51): 13447-13452, December 2017.
  
  Press coverage:
  The Atlantic; MIT Technology Review; EcoShock; Phys.org
  
  
• Every Breath You Take -- Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970
  Joint with Adam Isen and Reed Walker.
  Journal of Political Economy, 125(3): 848-902, June 2017. Data and Code.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 19858.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times; Vox; US Treasury News (1); US Treasury News (2); Ensia; The Economist (blog); VoxEU; NBER Digest
  
  
• Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being?
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(2): 93-130, April 2017.
  
  Press coverage:
  AEA Research Highlights
  
  
• Early-life Origins of Lifecycle Well-Being: Research and Policy Implications
  Joint with Janet Currie.
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 34(1): 208-242, Winter 2015.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times
  
  
• Paternity Acknowledgement in 2 Million Birth Records from Michigan
  Joint with Doug Almond.
  PLoS ONE, 8(7): e70042, July 2013.
  
  Press coverage:
  Pew Research Center
  
  
• WIC in Your Neighborhood: New Evidence on the Impacts of Geographic Access to Clinics
  Journal of Public Economics, 102: 51-69, June 2013.
  
  Press coverage:
  The White House Blog
  
  
• The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
  Joint with Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel.
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 32(2): 224-245, Spring 2013. Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 17715, IZA Discussion Paper No. 6240.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times (1); New York Times (2); New York Times (3); New York Times (4); New York Times (5); LA Times; New Republic; CS Monitor
  
  
• Weathering the Storm: Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes
  Joint with Janet Currie.
  Journal of Health Economics, 32(3): 487-503, February 2013.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 18070.
  
  Press coverage:
  The Atlantic Magazine; Parenting Magazine; Glamour Magazine
  
  
• The Effects of Maternity Leave on Children's Birth and Infant Health Outcomes in the United States
  Journal of Health Economics, 30(2): 221-239, March 2011 (Published under name: Maya Rossin).
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times; The Atlantic Magazine; Time Magazine; Slate
  
  

Other Publications and Book Chapters

• The Lasting Impacts of School Shootings on Youth Psychotropic Drug Use
  Joint with Max Pienkny, Molly Schnell, and Hannes Schwandt.
  AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, 114: 387-393.
  
  
• Time On with Baby and Time Off from Work
  Joint with Jenna Stearns.
  Future of Children, 30(2): 35-52, Fall 2020.
  
  
• Does the WIC Program Promote Equality of Opportunity in Early Life?
  Joint with Janet Currie.
  APA Bronfenbrenner Series on the Ecology of Human Development. Confronting Inequality: How policies and Practices Shape Children's Opportunities, American Psychological Association, 2020.
  
  
• The Economic Imperative of Enacting Paid Family Leave Across the United States
  Joint with Jenna Stearns.
  Vision 2020: Evidence for a Stronger Economy, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, February 2020.
  
  
• Trends and Disparities in Leave Use under California's Paid Family Leave Program: New Evidence from Administrative Data
  Joint with Sarah Bana and Kelly Bedard.
  AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108: 388-391.
  
  Press coverage:
  Journalist's Resource
  
  
• Maternity and Family Leave Policy
  The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, ed. Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 23069, IZA Discussion Paper No. 10500.
  
  Press coverage:
  New York Times; PolicyGenius; Journalist's Resource
  
  
• Promoting Health in Early Childhood
  Future of Children, 25(2): 35-64, Spring 2015.