Hello!

I am an Assistant Professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My research is in labor economics, especially the later-life interactions among health, occupation, savings, and labor supply decisions.

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Research Papers

• “Complementing Human Labor with Robotics: Progress, Challenges, and Policy”
  with Tim Smeeding, Bilge Mutlu, and Rob Radwin
  • Policy extension: “Cobots as Workforce Partners: Overcoming Barriers Through Policy Opportunities”

• “Labor Force Transitions at Older Ages: The Effects of Earnings, Health, and Stress”
  with Suphanit Piyapromdee

• “Social Security Reform: Work and Welfare Responses Across Occupations”

• “Collaborative Robots in the Workplace: Occupational, Geographic, and Demographic Susceptibility”
  with Qin Lin and Natalie Duncombe

• “Changes in New Disability Awards: Understanding Trends and Looking Ahead”

• “Retirement Adequacy Among Early Savers”
  with Alice Henriques, Kevin Moore, and Jeffrey Thompson

• “Trends in Retirement Timing: How Much Can the Occupational Composition Explain?”

• “Family Structure, Children, and Wealth in Retirement”

• Occupations, Retirement, and the Value of Disability Insurance” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 225, September 2023. (link to paper)

• “Wealth Concentration in the U.S. Using an Expanded Measure of Net Worth” with Alice Henriques Volz, Elizabeth Llanes, Kevin Moore, and Jeff Thompson. Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 74, Issue 3, July 2022. (working paper version)

Teaching

PA 380: Analytic Tools for Public Policy (Spring 2021 Syllabus)
PA 880: Microeconomics for Public Policy (Fall 2020 Syllabus)
PA 974: Aging and Public Policy (Spring 2020 Syllabus)