His broader work combines structural and empirical approaches, including causal policy evaluation and applied macroeconometrics. He brings strong technical skills, clear economic insight, and a research agenda at the frontier of health, inequality, and policy design.

He finds that these reforms generated large welfare gains for low-income families, produced substantial crowd-out of private coverage, but had little effect on private premiums.

Francisco’s job-market paper develops a quantitative equilibrium model with rich household heterogeneity to study how U.S. Medicaid expansions affected private insurance markets and welfare.