Subject Areas: Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Inequality, Health, Wealth, Saving, Social Security, the Chinese Economy   

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Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2011

Honors:

• Grillo Family Award for Excellence in Research (UConn), 2024-2025
• Grillo Family Award for Excellence in Research (UConn), 2018-2019
• T. Merritt Brown Thesis Prize for best doctoral dissertation in Economics (UWO), 2011

Courses Taught:

• Advanced Macroeconomic Theory (PhD field)
• Macroeconomic Theory II (PhD core)
• Quantitative Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergrad)
• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Undergrad)

Selected Publications

• “How Important Is Health Inequality for Lifetime Earnings Inequality?” (with Roozbeh Hosseini and Karen Kopecky) 

  Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

• “Rising Wealth Inequality: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurship, and the Decline in Interest Rate” (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu)

  Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 127, April 2022, Pages 86-104.

• “The Evolution of Health over the Life Cycle” (with Roozbeh Hosseini and Karen Kopecky)

  Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 45, July 2022, Pages 237-263.

• “Household Saving, Financial Constraints, and the Current Account in China”(with Ayse İmrohoroğlu),

           International Economic Review,Volume 61, Issue 1, February 2020.

• “The Chinese Saving Rate: Long-Term Care Risks, Family Insurance, and Demographics”. (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu)

          Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 96, June 2018. 

• “Social Insurance, Private Health Insurance and Individual Welfare“,

          Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 78, May 2017.

• “The Impact of the Correlation between Health Expenditure and Survival Probability on the Demand for Insurance”,

          European Economic Review, Volume 75, April 2015.

• “Social Security and the Rise in Health Spending,“

         Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 64, May 2014.

• “War Finance and the Baby Boom,“

         Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 17(3), July 2014.

• “Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution,“

         The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 2011, 11(1), Article 26.