Postdoctoral and Graduate Fellows: Academic Year 2022–23

Samuel Arenberg is researching the relationship between place of birth and longevity in the United States.

Maggie Shi is studying how policy decisions shape provider and patient behavior, and the implications for healthcare cost and quality.

Luis Armona is studying the market for online higher education as well as the design of student loan programs.

Olivia S. Kim is investigating the interplay between social insurance programs and household-level decisions that bear on health outcomes in under-represented populations.

Michael Ricks is exploring the design of tax and subsidy programs in energy markets, with particular reference to alternative energy sources.

Cailin Slattery is studying trade-offs among the various policy instruments that governments use to regulate business activity.

Tidiane Ly is investigating the welfare effect of tax havens by estimating models of how governments set tax rates in a competitive environment.

Irina Popova is investigating various aspects of long-term fiscal policy, focusing on the fiscal implications of migration flows to developed economies.

Anson Zhou is studying aspects of long-term fiscal policy, focusing on the macroeconomic impacts of government policies that subsidize families with children.

Ranae Jabri’s research focuses on the economic impact of disparities in the criminal justice system.

Zhixiu Yu is investigating the interplay between social insurance programs and household-level decisions that bear on health outcomes in underrepresented populations.

Aaron Berman is studying factors that influence the take-up of health care, particularly vaccines, in developed and developing countries.

Travis Donahoe’s research examines social and economic determinants of mortality, with an emphasis on harmful substance-related deaths in the United States.

Geoffrey Kocks is focusing on the impact of various policy interventions on educational and racial disparities in health outcomes.

Chika Okafor is studying health disparities arising from the criminal justice system and from climate change.

Anna Russo is investigating the efficiency and distributional consequences of capacity constraints and rationing in health care.

Ilana Salant is studying the industrial organization of healthcare providers, including effects of private equity on hospital markets and effects of vertical integration between providers and insurers.

Myles Wagner is researching selection and policy design in health insurance markets.

Matthew Zahn is examining how competition between payers and providers in healthcare markets affects health outcomes.

Luisa Cefala of the University of California, Berkeley is conducting research on the role of memory in the formation of beliefs and expectations.

John Conlon is investigating how expectation formation responds to information, particularly in the context of students’ choices about education.

Mateo Velásquez-Giraldo is studying how survey measures of macroeconomic beliefs can help explain life-cycle consumption and portfolio decisions.

Spencer Yongwook Kwon of Harvard University is investigatng the macroeconomic implications of learning and information processing by behavioral agents.

Menaka Hampole is studying how access to financial aid affects post-college earnings trajectories.

Jing Xian Ng is using lenders’ requirements that borrowers purchase private mortgage insurance to study the determinants of household consumption and saving behavior.

Lauren Beatty is investigating public policies that affect methane emissions from oil and gas production.

Elise Breshears is exploring how redlining in mortgage markets affects the energy efficiency of the housing stock.

Amy Burnett Cross is examining how women serving in combat beginning in 2016, and gender desegregation of the Army in 1977, affected women’s participation in male-dominated civilian occupations.

Lisa Ho is researching the value of flexibility in location, hours, and multitasking in increasing female labor force participation, and the role of part-time, at-home work as a stepping stone to full-time, away-from-home employment.

Dev Patel is exploring the impact of a World War II-era ban on female employment in India’s mines on women’s outcomes.

Johnny Huynh is studying the impact of disability compensation on military veterans’ well-being.

Ari Ne'eman is analyzing how changes in Medicaid policy affect the utilization of long-term services and supports as well as disability employment outcomes.

Cesia Sanchez is investigating how economic shocks experienced by early-career workers affect the retirement decisions of their parents.

Christiane Szerman is studying the impact of affirmative action regulations on workers and firms.