Working Papers

• The Economics of Infertility: Evidence from Reproductive Medicine
  With Sarah Bögl, Jasmin Moshfegh, and Maria Polyakova
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, Revise and Resubmit
  
  Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 32445.
  
  NBER Non-technical summary
  SIEPR Non-technical summary
  
  Press coverage:
  Boston Public Radio (Discussion by Jonathan Gruber, August 1, 2024); The Economist; Vox
  
  


• The Menopause Penalty
  With Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, and Barton Willage
  
  Also available as IFS Working Paper No. 2405, IFS Working Paper No. 2510, SIEPR Working Paper No. 2514, IZA Discussion Paper No. 17793, and NBER Working Paper No. 33621.
  
  SIEPR Non-technical summary
  
  Press coverage:
  Good Morning America; USA Today; ParentData; My So-Called Midlife Podcast; VoxEU Talk Podcast; A short video showing policymakers in Los Angeles talking about what it takes to build human-centered workplaces; Inc.com; MAKERS Media; This Morning Podcast (Canada); UCL News; NBC News; Stanford Report; UiB News; The Clayman Institute for Gender Research; Fortune (US); Femtech World; Science Blog; Eurekalert; Phys.Org; Human Resources Director (US); Human Resources Director (Canada); CTV News (Canada); Toronto Sun; NationTalk (Canada); Le Monde (France); India Today; HR World India; Medical Dialogues (India); Pieuvre Canada (in French); Aftenposten (in Norwegian); HKET (in Chinese); Pressetext (in German); Quo El Diario (in Spanish); Fortune Health Italia (in Italian)
  
  


• The Labor Market and Health Impacts of Reducing Cesarean Section Deliveries
  With Sarah Miller, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Laura Wherry
  
  


• The Impact of a Child with Down Syndrome
  With Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein
  
  


• 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.
  [Supplementary Materials]
  
  


• 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

• 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
  Review of Economics and Statistics, Accepted.
  
  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
  
  


• Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD
  With Xinyao Qiu and Maya Rossin-Slater
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17(2): 225-56, March 2025.
  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, 133(2): 604-651, February 2025.
  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, 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); 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.
  Corrigendum
  
  Press coverage:
  Freakonomics podcast; Medscape; EurekAlert!; Healthnews; ScienceDaily; MIT News; New York Times; Läkartidningen (Swedish); SIEPR
  


• Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution
  With Samuel Lee
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(3): 78-127, August 2022.
  [Online Appendix]
  
  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)
  


• 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:
  New York Times
  Siepr
  Inside Higher Ed
  Läkartidningen


• Social Insurance and the Marriage Market
  Journal of Political Economy, 128(1): 252-300, January 2020.
  Shorter version in Swedish
  Awarded the 2017 CESifo Distinguished Research Affiliate Award
  
  Coverage:
  Cheap Talk Blog
  Uppsala Nya Tidning
  


• 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.
  Comment Reply
  
  Coverage:
  Washington Post
  Stanford News
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  Tech Times
  Quartz Discrete Choice: Janet Currie
  Expressen (in Swedish)
  Ekonomistas (in Swedish)
  


• Attention Manipulation and Information Overload
  Behavioural Public Policy 2(1), 78-106.
  Also available as: NBER Working Paper No. 23823.
  


• Financing from Family and Friends
  With Samuel Lee
  Review of Financial Studies 29(9): 2341-2386, September 2016.
  [Online Appendix]
  


• 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.


• 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.
  [Online Appendix]