Ruth Winecoff

I am an assistant professor in the Edward J Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers New Brunswick. My primary research area is the municipal bond market, in addition to public finance and policy analysis topics more broadly.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Heim, Bradley T. and Ruth Winecoff. "The Impact of State 529 Plan Tax Incentives on Take-Up and Savings." Public Finance Review 51.4 (2023).

Yang, Lang (Kate). and Ruth Winecoff. "Municipal Bond Sectoral Risk and Information Intermediation in Uncertain Times: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic." Public Budgeting and Finance. 42.2 (2022).

Johnson, Craig L. and Ruth Winecoff. "Changes in Public Policy and the Cost of Debt: Tax Increment Financing and the Case of the State of California’s Elimination of Redevelopment Agencies." Municipal Finance Journal 43.1 (2022).

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, Ruth Winecoff, 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).