Ruth Winecoff, Ph.D.

Ruth Winecoff


Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Public Affairs, O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington; M.P.A., O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington; B.A., Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Research Interests

  • Budget and finance

  • Economics

  • Health disparities

  • Health policy

  • Environmental planning and policy


Ruth Winecoff is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Her primary research area is state and local public finance, with a focus on policies that affect the ability of subnational governments to raise capital for infrastructure and development projects through the municipal securities market. Ruth also works in the areas of health policy and environmental policy, particularly questions of financing and financial implications of different policies.

Complete Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)

Graduate
  • State and Local Public Finance

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Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Johnson, Craig L., Martin J. Luby, Tima T. Moldogaziev, and Ruth Winecoff. “The Federal Reserve Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF): Where the Municipal Securities Market and Fed Finally Meet.” Public Budgeting and Finance 41.3 (2021).
  • Winecoff, Ruth and Michelle Graff. “Innovation in Financing Energy Efficient and Renewable Energy Upgrades: An Evaluation of Property Assessed Clean Energy for California Residences.” Social Science Quarterly 101.7 (2020).
  • Bianco, William, Keith Gaddie, John Rice, Don Shin, Henrik Stahl, RuthWinecoff, and W.K. Winecoff. “Incentivizing Innovation in a Knowledge Society.” Social Science Quarterly 101.7 (2020).
  • McInerney, Melissa, Ruth Winecoff, Padmaja Ayyagari, Kosali Simon, and M. Kate Bundorf. “New Evidence on the Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Near-Elderly Coverage: Insights from the Health and Retirement Study.” INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 57 (2020).
    In coordination with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Funded by the National Institute of Health.
  • Luby, Martin J., T. T. Moldogaziev, Craig L. Johnson, and Ruth Winecoff. “The Use of Debt in Tax Increment Financing, 2000-2016.” In Johnson, Craig L., and Kenneth A Kriz (eds.) Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development: Uses, Structures, and Impact. 2nd Ed. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2019).

Manuscripts Under Review

  • Yang, Kate Lang, and RuthWinecoff. “Municipal Bond Sectoral Risk and Information Intermediation in Uncertain Times: Evidence from the Covid-19Pandemic.” Revise and resubmit at Public Budgeting and Finance, June 2021.
  • Heim, Bradley T. and Ruth Winecoff. “The Impact of State 529 Plan Tax Incentives on Take-Up and Savings.”
  • Winecoff, Ruth, Padmaja Ayyagari, Melissa McInerney, Kosali Simon, and M. Kate Bundorf. “The Hidden Role of Racial Wealth Disparities in Older Adults’ Vulnerability to COVID-19.”
    In coordination with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Funded by the National Institute of Health.

Areas of Expertise: Public finance, Policy analysis, Causal inference