Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications 

Rural Healthcare Access and Supply Constraints: A Causal Analysis (with Vitor Melo, Elijah Neilson, Markus Bjoerkheim), Southern Economic Journal, 2024.

The Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Increases on the Self-Reported Health of U.S. Adults (with Angela Daley, Jonathan Rubin, Caroline Noblet), Social Science & Medicine, 2022.

Drug-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Maine: Lost Productivity from 2015 to 2020 (with Angela Daley, Prianka Sarker, Marcella Sorg, Jamie Wren), Maine Policy Review, 2022.

Intended and Unintended Effects of Nursing Home Isolation Measures (with Vitor Melo), Revise & Resubmit at Contemporary Economic Policy.

The Effect of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion on the Mental Health of Already-Enrolled Medicaid Beneficiaries (with Markus Bjoerkheim, Kofi Ampaabeng), Revise & Resubmit at  Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics.

Working Papers

Understanding Discrimination in College Admissions: A Field Experiment (with Vitor Melo, Hugo Vaca Pereira Rocha, Patrick L. Warren, and S. Michael Gaddis), Under Review.

Expanded Scope of Practice for Optometrists and Access to Laser Eye Surgery (with Kihwan Bae), Under Review.

Certificate-of-Need Laws and Access to Health Care Services

The Hidden Subsidy of the Affordable Care Act (with Vitor Melo and Markus Bjoerkheim), Under Review.

Drug Decriminalization, Public Health, and Crime: Evidence from Oregon (with Elijah Neilson and Vitor Melo), Under Review.

The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion is Shifting Resources Away from Low-Income Children (with Charles Blahous).

Did Medicaid Expansion Improve Health? Nine Years of Follow-Up Data Show Limited Impact (with Markus Bjoerkheim).

Healthcare Openness and Access Project: Methodology (with Kofi Ampaabeng).

Right-to-Work Laws and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Vitor Melo), Under Review.

Work In Progress

The Impact of California’s AB 1228 on Employment in the Fast Food Industry (with Vitor Melo, David Neumark, and Gary A. Wagner)

Examining Geographic Disparities in Access to ABA Practitioners: Racial and Ethnic Divides Across Credentialing Levels in the US (with Clelia Sigaud and Patrick Jecmen)