Gopi Shah Goda received her Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 2007. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as an actuary at a life insurance company and became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 2004. Her interests span public finance, health economics, economic demography, and labor economics, and her dissertation examined the labor supply incentives embedded in the Social Security program. As a Scholar, she is expanding her research on the elderly by working on topics related to long-term care, Medicare and Medicaid.

Download CV here, last modified August 2008

•Job Market Paper: "Public and Private Financing of Long-Term Care: The Role of State Tax Incentives" (coming soon)

• "Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation," with John B. Shoven, NBER Working Paper 14231.

• "Could Social Security Financing Be More Efficient? Evidence from Implicit Tax Rates"

• "Do Consumers Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics," with Kate Bundorf, Natalie Chun, and Dan Kessler, NBER Working Paper 13888.

• "A Tax on Work for the Elderly: Medicare as a Secondary Payer," with John B. Shoven and Sita N. Slavov, NBER Working Paper 13383.

• "Social Security and the Timing of Divorce," with John B. Shoven and Sita N. Slavov, NBER Working Paper 13382.

• "Removing the Disincentives in Social Security Towards Long Careers," with John B. Shoven and Sita N. Slavov, forthcoming in NBER Conference Volume, ed. David A. Wise.

• "Did Women Who Entered the Labor Force Buy Their Husbands an Earlier Retirement?"

• "Fertility Response to the Tax Treatment of Children," with Kevin J. Mumford.