Working Papers
- The Economics of Infertility: Evidence from Reproductive Medicine
With Sarah Bögl, Jasmin Moshfegh, and Maria Polyakova
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 32445.
Press coverage:
The Economist;
Vox;
Stanford Medicine
- The Menopause Penalty
With Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, and Barton Willage
Available as IFS Working Paper No. 2405.
- Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
With Kate Kennedy-Moulton, Sarah Miller, Maya Rossin-Slater, Laura Wherry, and Gloria Aldana
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 30693, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15745.
Press coverage:
The New York Times;
YahooNews;
MSNBC Morning Joe (2/13/2023 episode);
SIEPR News;
Politico;
MarketWatch;
The Spokesman-Review;
Peoples Gazette;
Fatherly;
Good Men Project;
India Education Diary;
Futurity;
Medscape
- Insurance Without Commitment: Evidence from the ACA Marketplaces
With Rebecca Diamond, Michael Dickstein, and Timothy McQuade
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Reject and Resubmit
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 24668.
- Circles of Trust: Rival Information in Social Networks
With Nikita Roketskiy ® Samuel Lee
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 29324.
- The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Tests
With Rebecca Diamond
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 22207.
Press coverage:
Marginal Revolution;
The Atlantic;
SIEPR
Publications
- Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD
With Xinyao Qiu and Maya Rossin-Slater
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Accepted.
Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 28334, CEPR Discussion Paper 15660.
Press coverage:
SIEPR News
- Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Testing
With Peter Conner, Liran Einav, and Amy Finkelstein.
Journal of Political Economy, Accepted.
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 30669.
Summarized in VOX CEPR (February 7, 2023)
- When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
With Maya Rossin-Slater
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Forthcoming.
Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 25902, IZA Discussion Paper No. 12386.
Press coverage:
New York Times (1);
New York Times (2);
Whitehouse Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis;
KCBS Radio;
Business Insider;
Financial Advisor IQ;
Euronews;
Vanity Fair (Italian);
Folha De S. Paulo (Brazilian Newspaper);
Jezebel;
ScaryMommy;
Medical Daily;
Romper;
The Swaddle;
Newser;
MedicalXPress;
Palo Alto Online;
Scope Blog;
Inside Stanford Medicine;
SIEPR News;
Frankfurter Allegemeine (German);
Dagens Nyheter (Swedish);
Sveriges Radio (Swedish);
Expressen (Swedish);
Aftonbladet (Swedish);
Omni (Swedish);
Femina (Swedish);
MaBra (Swedish);
Norrkopings Tidningar (Swedish);
Affarsliv (Swedish)
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Guideline Adherence and Access to Expertise
With Amy Finkelstein, Maria Polyakova, and Jesse M. Shapiro
American Economic Review: Insights, 4(4): 507-526, December 2022.
Press coverage:
Freakonomics podcast;
Medscape;
EurekAlert!;
Healthnews;
ScienceDaily;
MIT News;
New York Times;
Läkartidningen (Swedish);
SIEPR
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Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution
With Samuel Lee
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(3): 78-127, August 2022.
Coverage:
Journalist's Resource
- The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise
With Yiqun Chen and Maria Polyakova
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(3): 185-223, July 2022.
Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 25618, CEPR Discussion Paper 13583.
Coverage:
BBC;
Freakonomics podcast;
NBER Digest;
NBER Video;
VoxEU;
Futurity;
Scope Blog;
Medical Xpress;
Becker's Hospital Review;
KCBS Radio;
SIEPR News;
Dagens Nyheter (in Norwegian);
Suddeutche Zeitung (in German)
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Does medicine run in the family--evidence from three
generations of physicians in Sweden: retrospective observational study
With Maria Polyakova, Katja Hofmann, and Anupam B. Jena
The British Medical Journal, 371:m4453, December 2020.
Coverage:
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Social Insurance and the Marriage Market
Journal of Political Economy, 128(1): 252-300, January 2020.
Awarded the 2017 CESifo Distinguished Research Affiliate Award
Coverage:
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Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation
With Maya Rossin-Slater
American Economic Review, 108(4-5):1214-52, April 2018.
Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 22229.
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Coverage:
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Attention Manipulation and Information Overload
Behavioural Public Policy 2(1), 78-106.
Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 23823.
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Financing from Family and Friends
With Samuel Lee
Review of Financial Studies 29(9): 2341-2386, September 2016.
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Violence and Entry in Prostitution Markets: Implications for Prostitution Law
With Samuel Lee
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution, ed. Scott Cunningham and Manisha Shah. (New York: Oxford University Press.) October 2016.
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The Limits of Career Concerns in Federalism: Evidence from China
With Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Journal of the European Economics Association 14(2): 338-374, April 2016.
Petra Persson
Assistant Professor of Economics
Landau Economics Building
579 Jane Stanford Way, 230
Stanford, CA 94305-6072
Phone: (650) 723-4116
perssonp@stanford.edu