Faculty: Alberto Ortega
Selected Works:
Reports and Publications:
Selected Works:
- "Medicaid Expansion and Mental Health Treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act," Health Economics, (2023)
- "The Effect of the Opioid Crisis on Parenting," (with Zachary Cohle), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2023)
- "The Highs and the Lows: Recreational Marijuana Laws and Mental Health Treatment," Health Economics, (2023)
- “Flipping the Script: The Effect of Opioid Prescription Monitoring on Specialty-Specific Provider Behavior,” (with Alice Ellyson and Jevay Grooms), Health Economics (2021)
- “Distance Learning and Parental Mental Health During COVID-19,” (with Cassandra Davis, Jevay Grooms, Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, and Edward Vargas), Educational Researcher, (2020)
- “Examining Medicaid Expansion and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders," (with J. Grooms), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 187-92 (2019)
Reports and Publications:
- Cohle, Z., & Ortega, A. (2023). The effect of the opioid crisis on patenting. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 214, 493-5211
- Ellyson, A. M., Ortega, A., & Bedard-Gilligan, M. A. (2022). Institution of higher education substance use amnesty policies and sexual violence reporting. Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- "Immigrant English Proficiency, Children's Educational Performance, and Parental Involvement," Review of Economics of the Household (2022) (with Tyler Ludwig)
- “State Partisanship and Higher Education,” Economics of Education Review, (2020)
- “Life of the Party: The Polarizing Effect of Foreign Direct Investment,” European Journal of Political Economy (2021) (with Zachary Cohle)
- “Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Review of Black Political Economy (2021) (with Jevay Grooms, Joaquin Alfredo- Angel Rubalcaba, and Edward Vargas)
- “The COVID-19 public health and economic crises leave vulnerable populations exposed.” The Hamilton Project. August 13 (2020): 2020. (with Jevay Grooms and Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba)
- “Business Cycles and HBCU Appropriations,” Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (2018) (with Omari Swinton)
- “The telling connection between affirmative action litigation, the racial composition of U.S. police forces, and the level of police killings of civilians,” Washington Center for Equitable Growth. December2 (2021): 2021. (with Robynn Cox and Jamein Cunningham)