Research

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Patterns of Advance Child Tax Credit Receipt and Spending Among Children with Retired and/or Disabled Household Memberswith Jevay Grooms and Tim Smeeding. Social Service Review, 98(1) (2024). 

Nudging Credit Union Members to Check their Credit: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (2023).

What Do Students Gain from Banks in Schools? A Field Study, with J. Michael Collins. Review of Economics of the Household (2022): 1-24.

Does Responsibility for Financial Tasks Influence Credit Knowledge and Behavior?: Evidence from a Panel of US CouplesJournal of Family and Economic Issues 41, no. 2 (2020): 377-387.

Working Papers

Social Security Administration’s Growing Interest in the Child Tax Credit and Other Child Driven Income Support Programs, with Jevay Grooms, Shogher Ohannessian, and Tim Smeeding

Retirement and Disability Research Center Working Paper WI23-03

Press Coverage: SquaredAway Blog

Social Security Interactions with Child Tax Credit Expansion, with Jevay Grooms and Tim Smeeding

Retirement and Disability Research Center Working Paper WI22-05

Press Coverage: SquaredAway Blog

Financial Health of Retirees and People with Disabilities: The Role of Income and Expenditure Timing

Retirement and Disability Research Center Working Paper EMF21-03

Press Coverage: MarketWatch, Next Avenue, Star Tribune

Youth Employment and Financial Behavior: Does Work in High School Build Financial Capability?.

The Effect of High School Financial Education on Financial Independence in Young Adulthood, with Cliff Robb and J. Michael Collins.

Short-Term Disabilities, Return to Work, and Transitions to Long-Term Disability Benefits: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data in Wisconsin, with Adibah Abdulhadi and J. Michael Collins.

Social Security Disability Program Application Timing and the Financial Health Trajectories of People with Disabilities.