Overview
Lehigh University and NBER economist. Co-author of two papers with David Cutler and Ellen Meara on DI cyclicality during the Great Recession. Also co-author of Cutler et al. (2011) on the education-mortality gradient and behavioral risk factors.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-author of Cutler, Meara, and Richards-Shubik (2012): tests and rejects both health-shock and opportunity-cost mechanisms for DI cyclicality using HRS micro data; establishes 1 pp UR → +4.8/1000 application probability
- Co-author of Cutler et al. (2015): documents FL conditionality of recession-era DI applications; cohort analysis showing recession accelerates timing without generating new disability
- Co-author of Cutler et al. (2011) on rising educational gradients in mortality
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