Olga Malkova
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Kentucky
Publications
- "Time to Grow Up? Adult Children as Determinants of Parental Labor Supply"
- (with Breno Braga), Journal of the European Economic Association, February 2024, 22(1): 230-262.
- "Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics"
- (with Elizabeth Brainerd), Journal of Population Economics, October 2023, 36(4): 2309-2345.
- "The Child Tax Credit over Time by Family Type: Benefit Eligibility and Poverty"
- (with Margaret Brehm), National Tax Journal, September 2023, 76(3).
- "Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms"
- -Journal of Public Economics, February 2020, 182.
- "Does Family Planning Increase Children's Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X"
- (with Martha Bailey and Zoë McLaren), Journal of Human Resources, October 2019, 54(4): 825-856. doi:10.3368/jhr.54.4.1216-8401R1
- -HCEO research spotlight .
- -Center for Poverty Research Policy Brief.
- -Cited in Nature.
- -Discussed in an interview with Mic.
- "Can Maternity Benefits Have Long-Term Effects on Childbearing? Evidence from Soviet Russia"
- Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2018, 100(4): 691-703.
- Awarded the Heinz König Young Scholar Award.
- Awarded the IIPF Young Economists Award.
- Awarded the 2015 Dorothy S. Thomas Award.
- "Do Family Planning Programs Decrease Poverty? Evidence from Public Census Data"
- (with Martha Bailey and Johannes Norling), CESifo Economic Studies, March 2014, 60(2): 312-337. doi: 10.1093/cesifo/ifu011
- Blogged at the London School of Economics and cited in The Atlantic.
Working Papers
- "Alcohol in the Family: How an Anti-alcohol Campaign Transformed Marriage and Childbearing"
- -With Elizabeth Brainerd
- "Culture and Fertility: How Religion Determines the Responses to Maternity Benefits"
- -With Elizabeth Brainerd
- "Delaying Retirement and Mortality: The Effect of Pension Reforms"
Work in Progress
- "The Child Tax Credit, Parental Labor Supply and Poverty: Evidence from New York"
- -With Margaret Brehm and Kenneth Tester
- "The Long-Term Health and Economic Benefits of Family Planning Programs"
- -With Martha Bailey and Brenden Timpe
- "The Long-Term Effects of in Utero Exposure to an Anti Alcohol Campaign"
- -With Elizabeth Brainerd
- "Taxes and Wealth Splitting among Couples"
- -With David Agrawal and Clara Martinez-Toledano
Other
Book Review: "Evolving Households: The Imprint of Technology on Life by Jeremy Greenwood"
Technical Memo: A Comparison of Poverty Reductions in Public and Restricted 1980 U.S. Census Data (with Martha J. Bailey and Johannes Norling)