Casey McQuillan
Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with The Watson School for International and Public Affairs and Economics Department at Brown University. My research focuses on labor economics and public finance, examining how policy shapes inequality, opportunity, and welfare through social insurance, public benefits, and labor markets. This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the U.S. Department of Labor, Policy Impacts at MIT, and Princeton's Program for Research on Inequality. Prior to this postdoc, I served as an Operations Research Specialist at the Washington State Employment Security Department as well as a Senior Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. I received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2026.
Research
Publications
Incomplete and Endogenous Take-Up of Unemployment Insurance (with Brendan Moore). Working Paper, 2025.
The Benefits of Unemployment Insurance for Marginally Attached Workers (with Brendan Moore). Working Paper, 2025.
Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects (with Brendan Moore). Working Paper, 2025.
The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality (with Amy Finkelstein, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2023.