PUBLICATIONS

“Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering – an image of death”

- Buddha -

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2020   Validating Imputation Procedures to Calculate Corrected Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths. 

            Public Health Report,  Vol. 135(1) 124-131 .

2018  Impact of Volunteering on the Cognitive Decline of the Elderly. Journal of Economics of Aging,

          Vol. 12 46-60.

            Media coverage:

• Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/research-finds-volunteering-can-be-good-for-your-health-1524449280) 

• Daily Mail (U.K.) (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-473397/Volunteering-just-two-hours-week-ward-dementia-study-finds.html)

2018   The Effects of State Rules on Opioid Prescribing in Indiana, BMC: Health Services Research. Vol.

           18(29). 

2017   Exploring perceptions and experiences of patients who have chronic pain as state prescription opioid 

           policies change: a qualitative study in Indiana. BMJ Open.

2015   The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality. 

           Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 40: 141–158.