Olga Malkova

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

University of California, Irvine


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 Mediates the Response 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)