Publications 

Publications 


On Student Loan Debt

Student Debt Relief and Racial Wealth Gaps  with Gerald Daniels and Jeffrey Galloway (2024). AEA Papers and Proceedings 114: 535-39.

Who Benefits from Blanket Student Loan Forgiveness? with Gerald Daniels and Jeffrey Galloway (2022). Policies for Action. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

Media: NPR's 1A, Inside Higher Ed, Urban Institute


Does Student Loan Debt Contribute to Racial Wealth Gaps? A Decomposition Analysis  with Gerald Eric Daniels Jr. and Olga Petrovska (2019) Journal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp 1920–1947.


Media: The Brookings Institution Roosevelt Institute Demos The Century Foundation Inside HigherEd


On Macroeconomics (monetary policy, inflation, economic growth, health)

Health Care Expenditure and Income in Canada: Evidence from Panel Data with Zuzana Janko (2023)  Health Economics 114: 535-39.



Effects of Monetary Policy on Food Inequality in India with Kuhelika De (2021)The Journal of Development Studies 57:11, 1852-1870.  

Working paper version 


Role of cash and costs of inflation for different income groups in the U.S. with Gerald Eric Daniels Jr., (2019) Economic Modelling, Volume 80, pp 303-319


Economic Growth and the CES Production Function With Human Capital with Gerald Daniels  (2017) Economics Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 2, pp 930-951


 Normalized CES supply-side system approach: how to replicate Klump, McAdam, and Willman (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007),  with Gerald Eric Daniels Jr. (2018) Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 12 (2018-19): 1–13.  

Media: Replication Wiki


On Housing economics, the gig economy

The Visible Host: Does Race guide Airbnb rental rates in San Francisco?  with Joel Voelz, Julia Wu, and Julisa Franco (2018) Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 40, pp 25-40  MediaMarketplace Weekend (NPR), Journalist's Resource of Harvard Kennedy SchoolSF State News , National Affairs Magazine, NBC Bay Area, Trust in Digital Services (TDS) Research Repository (TU Berlin), The Unassuming Economist (Housing View)

Lender Heterogeneity in Home Mortgage Lending: Evidence from HMDA Data with Michael Bar 


Operations Research and Applied Analytics


Adoption of FasTrak on San Francisco Bay Area Bridges: Impact of OR Models in Relieving Congestion with Ramesh Bollapragada, John Goodwin, and Andrew Fremier (2023) INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics Working paper version 


Health Policy and Demography


Medication Abortion: Current State and Changing Information on University Student Health Center

Websites with Sepideh Modrek, Anagha Kulkarni, Carrie Holschuh (2025). Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health


Medication Abortion: State of Information on Student Health Center Websites. with Sepideh Modrek, Mike Wong, Carrie Holschuh, Anagha Kulkarni (2023).Journal of American College Health 72(9), 3131–3135


Contraception Information on the Websites of Student Health Centers in the United States with Anagha Kulkarni, Carrie Holschuh, Anastasia Smirnova and Sepideh Modrek (2022) Contraception Volume 112, pp 68-73.

Media: Interactive map SF State News 



Quantifying the Quality of Web-Based Health Information on Student Health CenterWebsites Using a Software Tool: Design and Development Study with Kulkarni A, Wong M, Belsare T, Shah R, Yu Yu D, Coskun B, Holschuh C, Modrek S, Smirnova A (2022) JMIR Formative Research 6(2):e32360


Racial Differences in Transitions to Marriage For Unmarried Mothers with Gerald Eric Daniels Jr., and Anoshua Chaudhuri, (2017) Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Volume 38, Issue 3, pp 370-389.  PubMed (Open Access) 


Media: Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study database | Institute of Family Studies  | National Affairs magazine