Andrew Goodman-Bacon is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235–1819. E-mail: [email protected]. This dissertation was completed in 2014 in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Martha Bailey (Chair), John Bound, John DiNardo, and Helen Levy.Google Scholar

I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the NICHD (T32 HD0007339) UM Population Studies Center Traineeship, the University of California-Berkeley's Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (NIA 2P30AG012839), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Policy Scholars program.Google Scholar