Current work in progress:

“Culture and Fertility: How Religion Determines the Responses to Maternity Benefits” (with Olga Malkova), submitted.

“Alcohol in the Family: How an Anti-Alcohol Campaign Transformed Marriage and Childbearing (with Olga Malkova, University of Kentucky), work in progress.

“The Long-Term Effects of in Utero Exposure to an Anti-Alcohol Campaign” (with Olga Malkova)

“Dying to Be Equal?  Women’s Work, Smoking, and the Growing Gap in U.S. - European Female Life Expectancy” (with David M. Cutler, Harvard University).
    
“Missing Women in the Former Soviet Union?  Son Preference and Children’s Health in the Transition from Communism,” work in progress.     

Other working papers:

“Human Development in Eastern Europe and the CIS Since 1990,”  United Nations Development Program, Human Development Research Paper 2010/16, July 2010.

“The Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” (with Mark Siegler), CEPR Discussion Paper 3791, November 2003.