Completed Research
Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from Hill-Burton Hospitals in Florida, NBER Working Paper 15798 (with Douglas Almond and Janet Currie) Journal of Health Economics, January 2011
published version available here
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The Impact of Natural Disasters on Pregnancy Outcomes, CesIfo Economic Studies September 2011; also CesIfo Working Paper no. 2814; published version available here
Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers (with Randall Akee, William Copeland, Adrian Angold and Jane Costello) American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, April 2013 - Lead article
also circulated under the title Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Income on Childhood Obesity, an older version is available as IZA Discussion Paper 5135
Marriage, Bereavement and Mortality: The Role of Health Care Utilization, accepted by the Journal of Health Economics
Doctors, Patients, and the Racial Mortality Gap: What Are the Causes?, revision requested by the Journal of Health Economics
an older version is available as Columbia University Discussion Paper 0708-13
Press coverage: The Economist "Compliance Matters" May 30th, 2009
Race, Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes: What Can We Learn from the Veterans Health Administration?, Atlantic Economic Journal, September, 2009
Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment, NBER Working Paper 17932 (with Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme)
Education, Cognition and Health: Evidence from a Social Experiment, NBER Working Paper 19002 (with Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme)
Research in Progress
Gender Empowerment in 19th Century Sweden: Using Historical Trade Shocks to Assess the Effects of Women's Economic Empowerment (with Andreas Madestam)
Does Women’s Education Affect Breast Cancer Risk and Survival? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Education, with Mårten Palme
Children of the Pill: The Effect of Subsidizing Oral Contraceptives on Children's Health and Wellbeing, with Andreas Madestam
(preliminary draft)
Press coverage: Dagens Nyheter March 18th, 2013; Dagens Medicin
Who Is in Control? The Determinants of Adherence with Medication Therapy, with Sergei Koulayev and Niels Skipper
(preliminary draft)
Congestion Pricing and Children's Health, with Janet Currie, Peter Nilsson and Reed Walker
(abstract available upon request)
How can Electronic Medical Records Affect Patient Outcomes?, with Sergei Koulayev
Unequal at Birth? Identifying the Determinants of Human Capital Accumulation, with Mårten Palme
(abstract available upon request)
Parents' Education and Children's Outcomes, with Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme
Hospital Diversion and Patient Outcomes, with Douglas Almond
Older Stuff
Choice of Currency in Bond Issuance and the International Role of Currencies
, with Cristina Vespro and Nikolaus Siegfried, European Central Bank Working Paper 814
Research Grants
National Science Foundation award # 1227264 (Sept 2012 - Sept 2015) "The Long-Term and
Intergenerational Effects of Fertility Policies" (PI, with Andreas Madestam) $197,643
National Institutes of Health award #039702 (Sept 2010 - Sept 2013) "Nudging Doctors to Collaborate with Pharmacists to Improve Medication Adherence) (Co-Investigator, with Ira Wilson, William Rogers and Maggie McConnell) $1,400,000
Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) (January 2010 - January 2013) "Understanding the Long-Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health" (PI, with Janet Currie and Peter Nilsson) ~$ 250,000
Danish Council for Independent Research (January 2011 - January 2014) "What Are the Determinants of Patient Behavior?" (Co-Investigator, with Sergei Koulayev and Niels Skipper) ~$300,000
Personal
Fluent in Bulgarian, English, Russian; Conversational Italian
Married to: Sergei Koulayev
Faroes
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