Working Papers

Measuring Consumption Insurance

We explore the properties of the consumption pass-through estimator proposed by Heathcote, Storesletten and Violante (2014) (HSV) using …

Agustin Diaz Casanueva, Justin Franco Lam, Sean McCrary, Kharis Sokolov

The Effect of Cognitive Skills on Fertility Timing

The paper studies the relationship between cognitive ability, education outcomes, wages, and fertility timing, focusing on how …

Agustin Diaz Casanueva

The Role of Parental Altruism in Parents Consumption, College Financial Support, and Outcomes in Higher Education

This paper studies how parent-child interactions and altruism impact college financial support and outcomes. It analyzes how parents …

Agustin Diaz Casanueva

Fiscal and Generational Imbalances in the U.S. Federal Budget

We use the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s microsimulation of U.S. demographics projections to construct estimates of the U.S. federal …

Agustin Diaz Casanueva, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Kent A. Smetters