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Sandra Spirovska

Financial Economist

Compliance Risk Analysis Division

Sandra Spirovska is a Financial Economist in the Compliance Risk Analysis Division within Supervision Risk & Analysis. Her primary research interests are in labor economics. Her work spans topics in international migration, education, environmental economics, and health economics.

Dr. Spirovska holds a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the OCC in 2022, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and at the Institute for Research on Poverty.

Her research can be found here.

  1. Ludovica Gazze, Claudia Persico, and Sandra Spirovska (forthcoming), “The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom,” Journal of Labor Economics.
  2. Viacheslav Sheremirov and Sandra Spirovska (2022), “Fiscal Multipliers in Advanced and Developing Countries: Evidence from Military Spending,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol 208, 2022, 104631.

  1. Sandra Spirovska (2022). “Migration Opportunities, College Enrollment, and College Major Choice.”
  2. Sandra Spirovska (2022). “The Effect of Migration on Wages and the Gender Wage Gap in Sending Locations.”

  1. Gwyn Pauley, Sandra Spirovska, and Preeti Chachlani (2022). “Medicaid Dental Pilot Program Evaluation,” prepared for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
  2. Gwyn Pauley, Sandra Spirovska, and Donna Friedsam (2021). Wisconsin’s Changing Eligibility Rules for Adults: The Effect on Enrollment, Churning, Continuity of Coverage and Spill-Over Effects on Children,” prepared for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
  3. Gwyn Pauley, Donna Friedsam, Sandra Spirovska, David Hoang, and Anita Nsubuga (2020). “Medicaid Dental Pilot Program Evaluation,” prepared for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
  4. Renata Gaineddenova, Dennis McWeeny, Adam Smith, Sandra Spirovska, Hyun Soo Kim, Ann Nielsen, Konstantinos Papakostas, and Xuran Sheng (2018). “Wisconsin Export and Foreign Direct Investment Profile,” prepared for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.