“Health Insurance Coverage for Displaced Workers Before and After the Affordable Care Act” (with Mariana Zerpa)
Under Review. NBER working paper
We examine how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) altered the insurance consequences of involuntary job loss. Using matched event-study models with longitudinal survey data, we estimate the causal effects of displacement on insurance coverage before and after implementation of the ACA's main provisions. Prior to 2014, job loss reduced coverage by approximately 16 percentage points, with losses persisting for more than a year. After the ACA, declines are smaller—about 10 percentage points—and recovery is faster. Gains reflect higher baseline public coverage and reduced post-displacement losses, with the largest improvements among middle-income workers previously most exposed to coverage disruptions.
Fishback, Price, Jessamyn Schaller, and Evan Taylor, “Local Administration and Racial Inequality in Federal Program Access: Insights from New Deal Work Relief." Under Review. NBER working paper
New Deal programs provided relief jobs for millions of unemployed Americans. Although the federal government sought to prohibit racial discrimination, eligibility was determined by local administrators. Using the 1940 Census, we estimate county-level Black–White gaps in WPA employment. The estimates show that about 40% of Black male workers lived in counties where their rate of work relief employment was the same or higher than similar White male workers, including 24% in the South. Black workers’ relative access to work relief was higher where the White unemployment rate was lower and where local governments had more resources
"Navigating Memory Care: Dynamics of Home and Institutional Care Following Dementia Diagnosis" (with Chase Eck)
"Do Cyclical Fluctuations in Local Economic Conditions Lead to Changes in Student Achievement? Evidence from County Panel Data" (with Karla Cordova)