Yulya Truskinovsky

Associate Professor, Economics, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs Link

Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

CAPS Biography:

I am an empirical microeconomist with training in health economics and public health, and my research in aging, long-term care, and family caregiving closely aligns with CAPS signature themes of health and well-being and family and intergenerational supports, as well as CAPS cross-cutting themes of policy and specific populations. A central aim of my research is to understand how family care impacts employment and health outcomes of caregivers and care recipients. A second, related aim addresses the effects of public programs, financial incentives, and economic conditions on individual and population health outcomes, including socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and persons with disabilities. I leverage different data sources to include a wider range of caregivers and care roles, and I have developed approaches to identify family caregivers in administrative data to study the interaction between employment and caregiving roles over the less-studied later parts of the lifespan. My work advances science by establishing the significant impacts of caregiving on labor supply and providing new evidence on stark gender differences in the role of micro- and macro-economic conditions in determining who takes on family caregiving. I collaborate with scholars across disciplines including demography, social work, epidemiology and public health. I have expanded my research to topics related to ADRD; I am currently the PI on an NIA R01 studying the impact of COVID-19 on long-term care outcomes among adults with ADRD.