Research
Publications
Immigrant Labor and the Institutionalization of the U.S.-Born Elderly (with Kristin Butcher and Tara Watson). Review of International Economics, 30(5), Special Issue on Immigration in OECD Countries, 2022.
- Previous Version: NBER Working Paper No. 29520
- Media Coverage: AEI, Brookings, Forbes, Niskanen Center, NPR, Politico
- Summaries: Cato Institute, EconoFact, VoxEU
The Evolution of Infant Mortality Inequality in the United States, 1960–2016 (with Nick Turner and Kaveh Danesh). Science Advances, 6(29), 2020.
Working Papers
Non-Profit Hospital Charity Care & the Public Health Care Safety Net
Abstract: Medical organizations in the US provide billions of dollars of free and discounted health care to uninsured and low-income patients each year. The two largest providers of this safety net health care are private hospitals and the public sector. In this paper, I use federal tax returns from non-profit hospitals and difference-in-difference estimation strategies to explore the relationship between these two provider channels. I find that a one standard deviation increase in publicly funded health centers per capita is associated with a 9% decrease in non- profit hospital charity care spending from hospitals in the same county as these centers. Further, state-level Medicaid expansions coincide with a 35% decrease in non-profit hospital charity care. Finally, I find that non-profit hospitals do not change their financial assistance policies following these local increases in the public safety net.
Selected Works in Progress
Hospital Charity Care & The Hill-Burton Act
Electronic Health Record System Interoperability: Patient Flows and Healthcare Efficiency (with Rebekah Dix and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen
Sharing is Caring: The Role of Health Information Exchange on Patient Care with Ari Bronsoler, Joseph Doyle, and John Van Reenen