Kosali Simon

Herman B Wells Endowed Professor
Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences

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Phone:: (812) 856-3850
Email:: simonkos@indiana.edu
Room Number:: 357

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1999
B.A., Hamilton College, 1994

Courses

Health Policy (Masters level and PhD level H549/V710)
America’s Opioid Crisis: Data Analytics and Policy (Masters level V550)
Health Economics (Undergraduate level H354)

Biography

Dr. Kosali Simon joined O'Neill as a professor in 2010. In 2016 she was named a Herman B Wells Endowed Professor, becoming only the third recipient of this honor at Indiana University. In 2019 she was appointed Associate Vice Provost (AVP) for Health Sciences at IUB.

Simon is a nationally known health economist who specializes in applying economic analysis in the context of health insurance and health care policy. Her current research mainly focuses on the impact of health insurance reform on healthcare and labor market outcomes, and on the causes and consequences of the opioid crisis. She is also active in national leadership roles in her profession, serving on several boards and in editorial positions. A summary of her recent research appears in the 2018 National Bureau of Economic Research Reporter.

Simon is a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research, a group with which she has been affiliated since 2002. She serves as a member of the governing body of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and management (APPAM). From 2009-2016, she served as a board member of the American Society of Health Economists; from 2014-2017 she served as a board member of the American Economic Association (AEA)'s Committee on the Status of Women in Economics (CSWEP), and directed the national mentoring program for female assistant professors in economics. She also served a three-year term with the nation's largest health philanthropy, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF); in 2013, she was selected to the National Advisory Committee of RWJF Health Policy Scholars Program, a committee composed of 13 nationally recognized experts in social science and health policy. In 2007, Simon was recognized for her early contributions to health services research as the recipient of the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators.

Related to editorial roles, she is Editor for the Journal of Health Economics and editorial board member for the American Journal of Health Economics and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Highlights

Election to a four-year term as one of two academic representatives on the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Policy Council, 2016
Addington Prize in Measurement (shared with coauthors), Frasier Institute , 2013
Musgrave Prize (shared with coauthors), National Tax Association, 2012

In the News

"NBER Profile: Kosali Simon," The National Bureau of Economic Research's Bulletin on Aging and Health, September 26,2018
"Number of newly diagnosed cancer patients without insurance drops in first year of ACA" - IU Bloomington Newsroom, October 19, 2017
"For Wells Professor, a busy life is a fulfilling life" - IU Bloomington Newsroom, August 25, 2017
"The Affordable Care Act Hasn’t Led To More Part-Timers, Study Says" - BuzzFeed News, January 5, 2016
"Obamacare had little effect on part-time employment: Study" - CNBC, January 6, 2016
"Indiana University experts comment on upcoming Supreme Court decisions" - IUB Newsroom, June 22, 2015

Selected Works

“Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D Plans,” (with K. Lavetti), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10 (3) 154-92 (August 2018)
“The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Childbearing: Evidence From Tax Data,” (with Ithai Lurie and Bradley Heim), Demography 55 (4): 1233–1243 (2018)
“Demand for Health Insurance Marketplace Plans Was Highly Elastic in 2014-2015,” (with J. Abraham, C. Drake, and D.W. Sacks), Economics Letters (2017)
“Changes in Insurance Coverage Among Cancer Patients Under the Affordable Care Act,” (with A. Soni, B. Sommers, and L. Sabik) JAMA Oncology (October 19, 2017)
"Changes in inpatient payer-mix and hospitalizations following Medicaid expansion: Evidence from all-capture hospital discharge data," (with S. Freedman, S. Nikpay, A. Carroll), Plos One (28 September 2017)
“Health Insurance and Emergency Department Use — A Complex Relationship,” (with B.D. Sommers), The New England Journal of Medicine, 376:1708-1711 (May 4, 2017)
“The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the First Two Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions,” (with A. Soni and J. Cawley), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, (January 16, 2017)
“Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act and Insurance Coverage in Rural and Urban Areas,” (with A. Soni and M. Hendryx), The Journal of Rural Health, (January 23, 2017)
“Access to health insurance and the use of inpatient medical care: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Mandate,” (with Y. A. Antwi and A. S. Moriya), Journal of Health Economics, 39: 171-187 (2015)
“The Effect of Medicaid Expansions on the Labor Supply of Pregnant Women,” (with D. Dave, S. Decker, and R. Kaestner). American Journal of Health Economics (2015)
“Changes in Emergency Department Use among Young Adults after the ACA's Dependent Coverage Provision," (with Y. A. Antwi, A. S. Moriya, and B. Sommers), Annals of Emergency Medicine (June 2015)