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Publications, presentations, awards, and student placements.
- I am co-chairing the dissertation of Damilola Usman, a third year PhD student, with Firat Demir as chair.
- Ramesh Dulal's paper on Nepal's 2015 earthquake and infant death, coauthored with me, is now under review.
- A comment on Shenhav (2021), joint with Mahla Shourian, was submitted for review in July 2026.
- Stay healthy, stay employed: how flu vaccination might impact women's earnings is published in Applied Economics (with Firat Demir, Myongjin Kim, Ahmed Chaudhry, and Junying Zhao). Paper
- I received the 2026 Merrick Foundation Teaching Award from the University of Oklahoma.
- Empirical Evidence and Conceptual Framework to Address the Indian Health Service Underfunding Challenge appears in Value in Health, 29(3). Paper
- Presented at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 2026.
- Presented at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, November 2025.
- The Effects of Female Political Participation on Missing Women: Evidence from the Egyptian Protests of 2011-2014 (with Firat Demir and Zhengang Xu) is published in the Journal of Comparative Economics, 54(1). Paper
- Power of Public Health Advice: Effectiveness and Spillover Effects of Federal Vaccine Recommendations appears in Public Health in Practice, 10. Paper
- The Indian Health Service Is Chronically Underfunded. Here Is How To Close The Gap is published in Health Affairs Forefront (with Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, James R. Kennedye, Kylie Stewart, and Janis E. Campbell).
- Did the Medicaid expansion improve immunization among U.S. pregnant women? appears in Preventive Medicine Reports, 58. Paper
- Ahmed El Fatmaoui, whose dissertation I co-chaired, joins the University of Wisconsin La Crosse as Assistant Professor of Economics.
- Vaccine Production and Innovation: Insights from Tort Reform and Medicare Expansion is published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 35(4). Paper
- Multi-level Determinants of Vaccination of the American Indian and Alaska Native Population appears in Frontiers in Public Health, 13. Paper
- The Online MA in Econometrics, which I direct, welcomes its first cohort in Spring 2025. Program page
- Presented at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings in January 2025. Later in the year I gave a seminar at the University of New Mexico.
- Impacts of the US CDC recommendation on human papillomavirus vaccine uptake, 2010-2015 is published in Frontiers in Public Health, 12. Paper
- Syed Waleed Wasti, whose dissertation I chaired, joins Salim Habib University as Assistant Professor.