Research

I am a household finance economist with my work stretching from empirical macroeconomics to public finance. My primary research interest is in household behavior in light of changes to income or wealth: Do households shop more selectively when their income falls; what are the labor supply responses to temporary liquidity shocks for unemployed workers; why is financial distress so seasonal?

Working Papers

Revisiting the Consumption-Retirement Puzzle

Unemployment Insurance as a Financial Stabilizer: Evidence from Large Benefit Expansions (with Sree Kancherla)

Temporary Shocks, Permanent Impacts: The Effects of Liquidity on Job Search and Reemployment (with Sree Kancherla)

Select Work in Progress

What Can We Learn from the Seasonality of Financial Distress?