Andrew Goodman-Bacon is a principal research economist with the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute. Prior to this role, he was an assistant professor in Vanderbilt University's Department of Economics. He is also a faculty research fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Development of the American Economy, Children, and Health Economics programs. Previously, Andrew was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Andrew received a B.A. in economics and statistics from Macalester College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on policy issues related to labor, demography, health, and public economics. Of particular interest to Andrew are the effects of the policies created under the War on Poverty in the 1960s.
Andrew's work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He also serves as an associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Refereed Publications
Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services
Forthcoming | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | With Jamein Cunningham
Event Studies with a Continuous Treatment
2024 | AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 601-605 | With Brantly Callaway and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna
Difference-in-Differences with Variation in Treatment Timing
2021 | Journal of Econometrics, 225(2): 254-277
The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes
2021 | American Economic Review, 111(8): 2550-2593
Observational Studies of the Effect of Medicaid on Health: Controls Are Not Enough
2021 | Journal of Labor Economics, 39(S2): S619–S650 | With Seth Freedman and Noah Hammarlund
Using Difference-in-Differences to Identify Causal Effects of COVID-19 Policies
2020 | Survey Research Methods, 14(2): 153-158 | With Jan Marcus
Federalizing Benefits: The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net
2020 | Journal of Public Economics, 185: article 104174 | With Lucie Schmidt
Public Insurance and Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Implementation
2018 | Journal of Political Economy, 126(1): 216-262
Per Capita Caps in Medicaid — Lessons from the Past
2017 | New England Journal of Medicine, 376(11) | With Sayeh S. Nikpay
The War on Poverty’s Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans
2015 | American Economic Review, 105(3): 1067–1104 | With Martha J. Bailey
