Person
Karen Kopecky
Economic and Policy Advisor
Areas of Expertise
macroeconomics, inequality, health, public finance, household and family economics
Department
Research
Education
- BA,
- Education,
- State University of New York at Buffalo,
- 2001
- BS,
- Economics and Mathematics,
- State University of New York at Buffalo,
- 2001
- MA,
- Economics,
- University of Rochester,
- 2003
- PhD,
- Economics,
- University of Rochester,
- 2007
Karen Kopecky is an economic and policy advisory in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Her primary field of study is macroeconomics, with interests in inequality, public finance, insurance markets, retirement, health, and computational methods for macroeconomic modeling.
Prior to joining the Bank in 2023, Dr. Kopecky was a research economist and advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She also spent four years as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Kopecky has a BA in economics and a BS in mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and earned both her MA and PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.
- “Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19.” With Andrew Atkeson and Tao Zha, 2020, International Economic Review, forthcoming.
- “Substance Abuse during the Pandemic: Implications for Labor-Force Participation.” With Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner. HSOA Journal of Addiction and Addictive Disorders, 2022, 9: 100087.
- “Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together.” With Michale Darden, David Dowdy, Lauren Gardner, Barton H. Hamilton, Melissa Marx, Nicolas W. Papageorge, Daniel Polsky, Kimberly Powers, Elizabeth Stuart, and Matthew Zahn, Health Economics, 2022, 31: 1291–1295.
- “The Evolution of Health over the Life Cycle.” With Roozbeh Hosseini and Kai Zhao, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2022, 45: 237–263.
- “Behavior and the Transmission of COVID-19.” With Andrew Atkeson and Tao Zha. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2021,11: 356–360.
- “The Wife’s Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage.” With Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner, 2019, prepared for the Handbook of Historical Economics, edited by Alberto Bison and Federico Giovanni, (Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland).
- “Old, Frail, and Uninsured: Accounting for Features of the US Long-Term Care Insurance Market.” With R. Anton Braun and Tatyana Koreshkova. Econometrica, 2019, 87: 981–1019.
- “Old, Sick, Alone and Poor: A Welfare Analysis of Old-Age Social Insurance Programs.” With R. Anton Braun and Tatyana Koreshkova. Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84: 580–612.
- “The Impact of Medical and Nursing Home Expenses on Savings.” With Tatyana Koreshkova. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6: 29–72.
- “Measuring the Welfare Gain from Personal Computers.” With Jeremy Greenwood. Economic Inquiry, 2013,51: 336–347.
- “The Trend in Retirement.” International Economic Review, 2011, 52: 287–316.
- “Finite State Markov-Chain Approximations to Highly Persistent Processes.” Joint with Richard M. H. Suen. Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13: 701–714.
- “A Quantitative Analysis of Suburbanization and the Diffusion of the Automobile.” With Richard M. H. Suen. International Economic Review, 2010, 51: 1003–1037.
- “A Situation in Which a Local Nontoxic Refuge Promotes Pest Resistance to Toxic Crops.” With Jemal Mohammed-Awel and John Ringland. Theoretical Population Biology, 2007, 71: 131–146.
- “The Downward Spiral.” With Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner, NBER working paper, 2022, 29764.
- “Estimating and Forecasting Disease Scenarios for COVID-19 with an SIR Model.” With Andrew Atkeson and Tao Zha, NBER working paper, 2020, 27335.
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