Dr. Stripling conducts research on the unknown causes of the stagnation of life expectancy in the United States, one of the country’s most pressing health crises. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, and he received his PhD in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin.

Latest Research

The Signature of a Mid-century Cohort Malaise

with Samuel Arenberg and Nicholas Reynolds

This paper lays out several key facts about the cessation of progress in successive cohorts in adult mortality rates in the United States. We document the precise timing of the “cohort malaise” as well as its pervasiveness, which form a distinctive signature.

Chronicling the Loss of Public Health Insurance: Evidence from the TennCare Disenrollees

with Samuel Arenberg

Although the “TennCare disenrollment”—the largest disenrollment from public health insurance in US history at the time—has been studied many times, never has the exact set of disenrollees been pinpointed and traced over a long period of time, as we do in this paper by linking administrative enrollment records from CMS to large household surveys from the Census Bureau.