Broader view and plenary talks

• "Modeling Couples and Singles," Canadian Economic Association, SOTA lecture 2024.
• "Health Inequality and Health Types," Sargan Lecture, Royal Economic Society, Belfast, Uk, 2024.
• "Measuring Health and Its Consequences," McMaster and Western University, 2023.
• "The Aggregate Implications of Gender and Marriage," Midwest Macro Meeting in Baton Rouge, May 2017. WAMS in Canberra, August 2017.
• "Saving After Retirement," ICEE plenary talk in Messina. January, 2017.
• "Saving and Wealth Inequality," SED plenary talk in Toulouse. June, 2016. File and figures to generate the slides.

Work in Progress

• "Estimating Subjective Health Production Functions," with Gabriella Conti, Pam Giustinelli, and Fan Wang.
• "Insurance Before and After Age 65," with Richard Blundell, Margherita Borella, and Jeanne Commault.
• "Social Security Redistribution and Female Labor Supply" with Margherita Borella and Fang Yang.
• "Estimating Health Production in Old Age," with Margherita Borella, Rory McGee, and Emily Nix.

Working papers

• "Measuring Labor Income Dynamics Using Expectations," with Manuel Arellano, Orazio Attanasio, Margherita Borella, and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo. NBER working paper no. 35027, April 2026.
• "Why do households save and work?" with Margherita Borella, Johanna Torres Chain, and Fang Yang. NBER working paper no. 33874, May 2025. Updated January 2026. Slides.
• "Midlife Health and Later Life Economic Inequality," with Nicolo' Russo, Rory McGee, Margherita Borella, and Ross Abram. NBER working paper no. 32971, 2024. Updated april 2026.

Published and Accepted Papers

• "Health Inequality and Health Types," with Margherita Borella, Francisco Bullano, Benjamin Krueger, and Elena Manresa. The Econometrics Journal, 2025, Vol. 28, no. 3, pages 341–384. Slides. Replication package.
• "Why do Couples and Singles Save After Retirement? Household Heterogeneity and its Aggregate Implications," with Eric French, John Jones, and Rory McGee. Journal of Political Economy, 2025, Vol. 133, no. 3, pages 750–792. Replication package
• "Wage Risk and Government and Spousal Insurance," with Giulio Fella and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo. The Review of Economic Studies, 2025, Vol 92, no. 2, pages 954-980. Replication package
• "The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health," with Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm. The Review of Economic Studies, 2025, Vol. 92, no. 3, pages 1987-2026. Replication package.
• "Old Age Risks, Consumption, and Insurance," with Richard Blundell, Margherita Borella, and Jeanne Commault, The American Economic Review, February 2024, Vol. 114, no 2, Pages 575-613. Replication package.
• "The Importance of Modeling Income Taxes over Time: U.S. Reforms and Outcomes," with Margherita Borella, Michael Pak, Nicolo' Russo, and Fang Yang. Journal of the European Economic Association, December 2023, Vol. 21, no. 6, pages 2237-2286. Lead Article. FBBVA Lecture 2023. Estimated tax function parameters and replication package.
• "Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labor Supply?" with Margherita Borella and Fang Yang. The Review of Economic Studies. January 2023, vol. 90, issue 1, Pages 102-131. Replication package.
• "Family and Government Insurance: Wage, Earnings, and Income Risks in the Netherlands and the U.S.," with Giulio Fella, Marike Knoef, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo, and Ralph Van Ooijen. Journal of Public Economics. January 2021, vol. 193, Article 104327.
• "Medical Spending, Bequests, and Asset Dynamics Around the Time of Death," with Eric French, John Jones, Rory McGee, and Rachel Rodgers. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 2021.
• "Nonlinear Household Earnings Dynamics, Self-Insurance, and Welfare," with Giulio Fella and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo. Journal of the European Economic Association. April, 2020, Vol. 18, no. 2, pages 890-926. Markov Chains and estimated earnings processes for household pre- and post-tax earnings. Replication package.
• "The Lost Ones: The Opportunities and Outcomes of White Non-College-Educated Americans Born in the 1960s," with Margherita Borella and Fang Yang. NBER Macro Annual, 2019.
• "The Lifetime Medical Spending of Retirees," with Eric French, John Jones, Rory McGee, and Justin Kirschner. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly. vol. 104, no 36, pages 103-135
• "The Aggregate Implications of Gender and Marriage" with Margherita Borella and Fang Yang. "The Journal of the Economics of Ageing," special issue on "Macroeconomics and Aging," edited by Tim Kehoe and Juan Carlos Conesa, May 2018, pages 6-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2017.01.005
• "Household Inequality and the Consumption Response to Aggregate Real Shocks," with Gene Amromin and Karl Schulze. NBER working paper no. 24073, 2017 and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives,January 2018, vol. 1.
• "Who Receives Medicaid in Old Age? Rules and Reality," with Margherita Borella and Eric French. Fiscal Studies. March 2018, vol. 39, no. 1, pages 65-93.
• "Saving and Wealth Inequality," with Giulio Fella. The Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2017, vol. 26, pages 280-300.
• "Data From the US and Eight Other Developed Countries Show that End-Of-Life Medical Spending is Lower than Previously Reported," with Eric French and others. Health Affairs, July 2017, vol. 36, n. 7, pages 1211-1217.
• "Macro Models of Wealth Inequality," with Giulio Fella and Fang Yang. In the book "After Piketty," Harvard University Press, edited by Heather Boushey, Bradford DeLong, and Marshall Steinbaum, May 2017.
• "RED Special Issue on Human Capital and Inequality, An Introduction," with Dean Corbae and Lance Lochner. "The Review of Economic Dynamics," special issue on "Human Capital and Inequality," edited by Dean Corbae, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Lance Lochner. April 2017, volume 25, pages 1-3.
• "Medicaid Insurance in Old Age," with Eric French and John Jones. The American Economic Review, November 2016, Vol 106, no. 11, pages 3480-3520. Slides. Replication package.
• "Medical Spending of the U.S. Elderly," with Eric French, John Jones, and Jeremy McCauley. Fiscal Studies, September-December 2016, volume 37, issue 3-4, pages 717-747. Special issue on "Medical Expenditures Around the World," edited by Eric French and Elaine Kelly.
• "Savings After Retirement: A Survey," with Eric French, and John Jones. The Annual Review of Economics, October 2016, vol. 8, pages 177-204.
• "Wealth Inequality, Family Background, and Estate Taxation," with Fang Yang. Journal of Monetary Economy, Carnegie Rochester Special Issue on "Inequality, Institutions, and Redistribution, " February 2016, vol. 77, pages 130-15. Slides. Replication package.
• "Social Security and Fertility," with Michele Boldrin and Larry Jones, Journal of Demographic Economics, September 2015, vol. 81, issue 03, pages 261-299.
• "Credit Crunches and Credit Allocation in a Model of Entrepreneurship," with Marco Bassetto and Marco Cagetti, Review of Economic Dynamics, January 2015, vol. 18, issue 1, pages 53-76. Special issue on Money, Credit, and Financial Frictions.Slides. Replication package.
• "Bequests and Heterogeneity in Retirement Wealth," with Fang Yang, European Economic Review, November 2014, vol. 72, pages 182-196. Replication package.
• "Medicaid and the Elderly," with Eric French, John Jones, and Angshuman Gooptu, NBER working paper no. 17689 and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, January 2012.
• "Consumption and the Great Recession," with Eric French and David Benson, NBER working paper no. 17688 and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, January 2012.
• "Why Do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses," with Eric French and John Jones, Journal of Political Economy, February 2010, vol. 118, pages 39-75. (A previous version of this paper was circulated as "Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles," NBER working paper no. 12554, October 2006.) Slides. Replication package.
• "Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings," with Eric French and John B. Jones, NBER working paper no. 14653, 2009, The American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2009, pages 110-115.
• "A Conversation with 590 Nascent Entrepreneurs," with Jeff Campbell, Annals of Finance, special issue on Entrepreneurship, co-edited with Ann Villamil, April 2009, vol. 5, pages 313-327.
• "Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth," with Marco Cagetti, The American Economic Review, March 2009, vol. 99(1), pages 85-111. Slides. Replication package.
• "Wealth inequality: data and models," with Marco Cagetti. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, vol. 12, special supplement S2 on Inequality edited by R. Townsend, pages 285-313.
• "Evidence on Entrepreneurs in the United States: Data from the 1989-2004 Survey of Consumer Finances," with Phil Doctor and Spencer D. Krane, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, Fourth Quarter 2007.
• "Entrepreneurship, Frictions, and Wealth," with Marco Cagetti, Journal of Political Economy, October 2006, vol. 114, n. 5, pages 835-870. Lead article. Slides. Replication package.
• "Right Before the End: New Evidence on Asset Decumulation at the End of the Life Cycle," with Eric French, John B. Jones, Olesya Baker, and Phil Doctor, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, Third Quarter 2006.
• "Wealth Inequality and Intergenerational Links" . Review of Economic Studies, July 2004, vol. 71, n. 3, pages 743-768. Slides. Replication package.
• "Saving and Pension Reform in General Equilibrium Models," with Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Thomas J. Sargent, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2001, vol. 17, pp. 20-39, special issue on Savings, edited by Orazio Attanasio and James Bank.
• "Income Inequality and Redistribution in Five Countries," with Liqian Ren and Chao Wei, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, Second Quarter 2000.
• "Projected U.S. Demographics and Social Security," with Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Thomas J. Sargent, Review of Economic Dynamics, 1999 vol. 2 n. 3, pages 575-615. Replication package.