- Means Testing and Social Security in the United States (2023), International Studies of Economics [link]
- Health Risk and the Welfare Effects of Social Security (with Juergen Jung) (2022), Macroeconomic Dynamics [link]
- Annuity Markets and Capital Accumulation (with James Feigenbaum) (2020), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics [link]
- Differential Mortality and the Progressivity of Social Security (2019) (awarded the Early Career Research Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research), Journal of Public Economics [link]
- Can Removing the Tax Cap Save Social Security? (2017), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics [link]
- Is the Social Security Crisis Really as Bad as We Think? (2016), Macroeconomic Dynamics 20 (3): 737-776 [link]
- Labor Supply and the Optimality of Social Security (2015), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 58 (1): 167-185 [link]
- Is Smoking a Fiscal Good? (with James Feigenbaum) (2013), Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (1): 170-190 [link]
- Can Overconfidence Explain the Consumption Hump?: A General Equilibrium Inquiry (2011), Journal of Economics and Finance 35 (1): 41-70 [link]
- The Insurance Properties of Social Security with Respect to Aggregate Risk (with James Feigenbaum and Nick L. Guo) [link]