Publications
Social Security reform: three Ralwsian options, Joint with Frank Caliendo, International Tax and Public Finance 27, 1582–1607 (May 2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-020-09607-4 working paper version
Social Security and Longevity Risk: The Case of Risky Bequest Income, Joint with Frank Caliendo, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1-32. (Feb 2021). doi:10.1017/S1365100521000018 working paper version
Adaptive Learning, Social Security Reform, and Policy Uncertainty Journal of Money Credit and Banking Vol. 53, No. 4 (June 2021) https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12770 working paper version
Social Security and Longevity Risk: An Analysis of Couples joint with Frank Caliendo, Journal of Public Economic Theory, (Dec 2021). DOI: 10.1111/jpet.12564 working paper version
Social Security and Risk Sharing: A Survey of Four Decades of Economic Analysis joint with Frank Caliendo, Journal of Economic Surveys (Feb 10, 2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12492 working paper version
Social Security and Risk Sharing: The Role of Economic Mobility across Generations joint with Frank Caliendo, International Tax and Public Finance, (online first view Sept 2022), working paper version
Welfare Effects of Automatic IRAs Contemporary Economic Policy (Nov 2022), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12600 working paper version (research assistance from undergraduate students Joe Polifonte, Pooja Kumar, and Elina Huang)
Student research poster presented at Lafayette Fall 2020 poster session; paper presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2021.
Social Security Safety Net with Rare Event Risk joint with Frank Caliendo, Marcroeconomic Dynamics (online first view March 2023) working paper version
Working Papers
To Plan or Not to Plan? Optimal Planning and Saving for Retirement (Sept 2022), joint with Seth Neumuller (Wellesley College) and Yashna Shivdasani (Wellesley College)
The Case for Borrowing Against Future Social Security Wealth (Oct 2022) joint with Steve Swidler Lafayette College
Timing Risk: A User Guide (May 2022) joint with Frank Caliendo Utah State
Short Planning Horizons and the Save More Tomorrow Program (September 2020; First draft March 2017) joint with Scott Findley Utah State University
Finite Horizon Life-cycle Learning (Oct 28, 2019; previous version Feb 2019)
The Save More Tomorrow Program and the Household Balance Sheet: A Theoretical Investigation (September 2019) joint with Scott Findley Utah State University