Jen has 20 years of experience as a health economics and disability policy researcher and over a decade of experience as an Economics professor. Her areas of interest include disability and mental health policy, labor force participation of vulnerable populations, and public finance issues.
Pennsylvania Economic Review Volume 27:1, 2020, Pages 62-74
On Bullying, Mental Health, and Weight Perception
Journal of Disability Policy Studies Volume 28:3, 2017, Pages 141–149
Impacts of the 2010 VA PTSD Rule Change on Veterans’ Disability Compensation and Reported Cognitive Disability
Disability and Health Journal Volume 9:3, July 2016, Pages 449-456
Trends in disability and program participation among U.S. veterans
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement Volume 39, 2014, Pages 217–245
Is the 2010 Affordable Care Act minimum standard to identify disability in all national datasets good enough for policy purposes?
IZA Journal of Labor Policy Volume 3:3, 2014
Tax Structure and Revenue Instability: The Great Recession and the states
Monthly Labor Review, August 2012
Disability, Employment, and Income: Are Iraq/Afghanistan-era U.S. veterans unique?
Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 5 June 2012
Capturing the Elusive Working-Age Population With Disabilities: Reconciling Conflicting Social Success
Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 11 October 2011
Spillover Effects of the ADA: The Case of Obesity
The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Volume 14, 2011, Pages 165-186
Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias
Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 40:3, 29 March 2010, Pages 508-533
Federal-State Tax Interactions in the United States and Canada
Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, Volume 5:4, 2009, Pages 10-21
The Reasonableness of Working From Home in the Digital Age
Risk, March 2008, Pages 93-98