Research

Reports and Policy Briefs

Student Debt

  • "Overdue student loans on the rise: Potential causes and implications for wage garnishment" with Samantha Anderson and Chris Wheat
    December 2025 SLD2025
  • "The new income-driven repayment plan: Student debt outcomes and federal revenue implications" with Lucas Nathe and Chris Wheat
    December 2025 IDR2025
  • "Balancing restarted student loan payments and a mortgage: How will household budgets adapt?" with Makada Henry-Nickie and Chris Wheat
    February 2024 SLD202402
  • "The potential borrower impact of proposed IDR reforms"
    May 2023 IDR2023
  • "Who benefits from the 2022 student debt cancellation?" with Chris Wheat
    August 2022 Cancel22
  • "Income Driven Repayment: Who needs student loan payment relief?" with Fiona Greig and Bernard Ho
    June 2022 IDR
  • "Who benefits from student debt cancellation?" with Fiona Greig
    March 2021 cancellation
  • "Student Loan Debt: Who is Paying it Down?" with Diana Farrell and Fiona Greig
    October 2020 studentdebt

Household Cash Balances

  • "Household Finances Pulse through May 2025: Bank balances are flat but total savings are growing again" with Erica Deadman and Chris Wheat
    July 2025 Pulse202507
  • "Household Finances Pulse through June 2024: Balances Continue to Decline" with Erica Deadman and Chris Wheat
    September 2024 Pulse202409
  • "Household Pulse: Balances through February 2024" with Erica Deadman and Chris Wheat
    April 2024 Pulse202404
  • "Household Pulse: Balances through October 2023" with Chris Wheat and Erica Deadman
    January 2024 Pulse2401

Household Financial Health

  • "Building financial security and resilience to unexpected expenses: The importance of cash savings" with Erica Deadman and Chris Wheat
    September 2025 ExpRes202509
  • "How vulnerable are Americans to unexpected expenses?" with Erica Deadman and Chris Wheat
    July 2024 ExpRes24
  • "Feeling the Heat: How Households Manage High Air Conditioning Bills" with Abigail Ostriker, Alexandra Lefevre, and Chris Wheat
    July 2024 Heat24
  • "Housing affordability dynamics in Chicago" with George Eckerd, Makada Henry-Nickie, and Chris Wheat
    March 2025 Chicago25
  • "How did advance Child Tax Credit payments affect households' 2021 tax year outcomes and spending response?" with Erica Deadman and Chris Wheat
    March 2024 CTC2024
  • "How families used the advanced Child Tax Credit" with Chris Wheat and Erica Deadman
    Novmeber 2022 CTC1
  • "The Online Platform Economy through the Pandemic" with Fiona Greig
    October 2021 OPE

Unemployment Insurance

  • “Lessons learned from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program during COVID-19” with Fiona Greig, Samantha Anderson, Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, and Joseph Vavra
    April 2022 UI2204
  • "The Governor’s choice: Continue or end expanded unemployment benefits?" with Fiona Greig, Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, and Joseph Vavra
    August 2021 UI202108
  • "When unemployment insurance benefits are rolled back" with Fiona Greig, Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, and Joseph Vavra
    July 2021 rollback
  • "Unemployment insurance, job search, and spending during the pandemic" with Fiona Greig, Max Liebeskind, Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, and Joseph Vavra
    February 2021 UI202102
  • "The unemployment benefit boost: Initial trends in spending and saving when the $600 supplement ended" with Diana Farrell, Peter Ganong, Fiona Greig, Max Liebeskind, Pascal Noel, and Joseph Vavra
    October 2020 boost

Working Papers

  • "Using Satellite Data to Fill the Gaps in the US Air Pollution Monitoring Network" with Alan Krupnick
    January 2019 moncoverage, Summary
    Press: E&E News, NPR Louisville, EDF Blog
  • "Residential Sorting and the Incidence of Local Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Air Pollution"
    July 2017 pollsort, Summary
    Press: Fusion
  • "The True Cost of Air Pollution: Evidence from the Housing Market"
    March 2017 pollhouse
  • "Income Stagnation Among the Bankrupt" with Frank McIntyre
    May 2010 bincome

Publications

  • Ganong, Peter, Fiona Greig, Pascal Noel, Daniel M. Sullivan, and Joe Vavra. 2023. "Spending and Job Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data." Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review UIMicro
  • Zhang, Ruohao, Huan Li, Neha Khanna, Alan J. Krupnick, Elaine L. Hill, and Daniel M. Sullivan. 2023. "Air Quality Impacts of Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 10(2):447--486. fracking
  • McIntyre, Frank, Daniel M. Sullivan, and Laura Summers. 2015. "Lawyers Steer Clients toward Lucrative Filings: Evidence from Consumer Bankruptcy." American Law and Economics Review 17(1):245--289. steer