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)
Reports and Publications:
- "Prescription Contraceptive Sales Following the Affordable Care Act," (with L. Bullinger), Maternal and Child Health Journal, pp. 1-10, (2019)
- "The Effect of Health Insurance on Prescription Drug Use Among Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Recent Medicaid Expansions," (with A. Ghosh and B. Sommers), Journal of Health Economics, 63: 64-80, (2019)
- "Comparison of Rural vs Urban Direct-to-Physician Commercial Promotion of Medications for Treating Opioid Use Disorder," (with T. Nguyen, B. Andraka-Christou, and W. Bradford), JAMA</em< 2 (12), (2019)
- "Does the healthcare educational market respond to short-run local demand?" (with M. Dillender, A. Friedson, and C. Gian), Economics of Education Review, 73, (2019)
- "Association Between the Number of Certified Buprenorphine Prescribers and the Quantity of Buprenorphine Prescriptions: Evidence from 2015 to 2017," (with L. Lin, A. Hollingsworth, and B. Saloner), Journal of General Internal Medicine, 34 (11): 2313-2315, (2019)
- "Provider-directed marketing may increase prescribing of medications for opioid use disorder," (T. Nguyen, B. Andraka-Christou, and W. Bradford), Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 104: 104-115, (2019)
- "Health systems' use of enterprise health information exchange vs single electronic health record vendor environments and unplanned readmissions," Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 26 (10): 989-998, (2019)
- "Pharmaceutical payments to physicians may increase prescribing for opioids," (with T. Nguyen and W. Bradford), Addiction, 114 (6): 1051-1059, (2019)
- "Prescription Contraceptive Sales Following the Affordable Care Act," (with L. Bullinger), Maternal and Child Health Journal, 23 (5): 657-666, (2019)
- "Gains in health insurance coverage explain variation in Democratic vote share in the 2008-2016 presidential elections," (with A. Hollingsworth, A. Soni, A. Carroll, and J. Cawley), PLoS ONE, 14 (4), (2019)
- "How have recent health insurance expansions affected coverage among artist occupations in the USA?" (with J. Woronkowicz, A. Soni, and S. Freedman), Journal of Cultural Economics, (May 2019)
- ”The Effect of Health Insurance on Prescription Drug Use Among Low-Income Adults:Evidence from Recent Medicaid Expansions,” (with A. Ghosh and B. Sommers), Journal of Health Economics, 63: 64-80, (2019)
- "Prescription Contraceptive Sales Following the Affordable Care Act," (with L. Bullinger), Maternal and Child Health Journal, pp. 1-10, (2019)
- "The Effect of Health Insurance on Prescription Drug Use Among Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Recent Medicaid Expansions," (with A. Ghosh and B. Sommers), Journal of Health Economics, 63: 64-80, (2019)
- "Comparison of Rural vs Urban Direct-to-Physician Commercial Promotion of Medications for Treating Opioid Use Disorder," (with T. Nguyen, B. Andraka-Christou, and W. Bradford), JAMA, 2 (12), (2019)
- "Does the healthcare educational market respond to short-run local demand?" (with M. Dillender, A. Friedson, and C. Gian), Economics of Education Review, 73, (2019)
- "The effects of HMO penetration on preventable hospitalizations," (with J. Wendel, W. O’Donohue, J. Abraham, R. Feldman, A. Adams, R. Ekelund, J. Jackson, N. Adler, T. Boyce, M. Chesney, and others), chapter in Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career in an Evolving Healthcare System, Second Edition, 63 (2): xv-xx, (2018)
- ”Changes in insurance coverage among cancer patients under the Affordable Care Act,” (with A. Soni, L. Sabik, and B. Sommers), JAMA Oncology, 4 (1): 122--124, (2018)
- "Effect of medicaid expansions of 2014 on overall and early-stage cancer diagnoses, (with A. Soni, J. Cawley, and L. Sabik), American Journal of Public Health," 108 (2): 216--218, (2018)
- "Going into the Affordable Care Act," Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs, 76: 419, (2018)
- "Learning from waiver states: coverage effects under Indiana’s HIP Medicaid expansion," (with S. Freedman and L. Richardson), Health Affairs, 37 (6): 936--943, (2018)
- "Third year of survey data shows continuing benefits of Medicaid expansions for low-income childless adults in the US," (with J. Cawley and A. Soni), Journal of General Internal Medicine, 33 (9): 1495--1497, (2018)
- "Changes in Insurance Coverage Among Cancer Patients Under the Affordable Care Act," (with A. Soni, L. Sabik, and B. Sommers), JAMA Oncology, 4 (1): 122, (2018)
- "Effect of Medicaid Expansions of 2014 on Overall and Early-Stage Cancer Diagnoses," (with A. Soni, J. Cawley, and L. Sabik), American Journal of Public Health, 108 (2): 216-218, (2018)
- "Changes in inpatient payer-mix and hospitalizations following Medicaid expansion: Evidence from all-capture hospital discharge data," (with S. Freedman, S. Nikpay, and A. Carroll), PloS ONE, 12 (9), e0183616, (2017)
- "Health Insurance and Emergency Department Use-A Complex Relationship," (with B. Sommers), The New England Journal of Medicine, 376 (18): 1708, (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, 36 (2): 390--417, (2017)
- ”The effect of state Medicaid expansions on prescription drug use: evidence from the Affordable Care Act,” (with A. Ghosh and B. Sommers), Technical report for the National Bureau of Economic Research, (2017)
- "The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Childbearing, Marriage, and Tax Filing Behavior: Evidence from Tax Data," (with B. Heim, and I. Lurie), Technical report for the National Bureau of Economic Research, (2017)
- "What Drives Insurer Participation and Premiums in the Federally-Facilitated Marketplace?" (with J. Abraham, C. Drake, and J. McCullough), International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 17 (4): 395-412, (2017)
- “Hospitals’ adoption of intra-system information exchange is negatively associated with inter-system information exchange,”(with J. Vest), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (May 2018)
- “Designing difference in difference studies: Best practices for public health policy research,” (with C. Wing, K. Simon, and R. Bello-Gomez), Annual Review of Public Health, 39: 453-469 (April 2018)
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“Macroeconomic conditions and opioid abuse,” (with A. Hollingsworth, C. Ruhm), Journal of Health Economics, (December 2017)
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“What Drives Insurer Participation and Premiums in the Federally-Facilitated Marketplace?” (with J. Abraham, C. Drake, J. McCullough), International Journal of Health Economics and Management, (4) 395-412, (December 2017)
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“Medicaid expansion status and state trends in Supplemental Security Income program participation,” (with M. Burns, A. Soni, L. Dague), Health Affairs, (8) 1485-88, (August 2017)
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“Securing the Right to Health Care and Well-Being: Ten Years Later,” (with S. Freedman, V. Perez, A. Gooptu), The Covenant with Black America: Ten Years Later, (Tavis Smiley, ed.), (2016)
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“Impact of Premium Subsidies on the Take-up of Health Insurance: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),” (with A. Moriya), American Journal of Health Economics, (3) 318-343, (2016)
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“Impacts on Emergency Department Visits from Personal Responsibility Provisions: Evidence from West Virginia's Medicaid Redesign,” (with T. Gurley-Calvez, D. Wissoker), Health Services Research, (4) 1424-43, (August 2016)
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“Dependent Coverage under the ACA and Medicaid Coverage for Childbirth,” (with Y. Akosa Antwi, J. Ma, A.E. Carroll), The New England Journal of Medicine, (2) 194-96, (January 2016)
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“Little Change Seen In Part-Time Employment As A Result Of The Affordable Care Act,” (with A.S. Moriya, T.M. Selden), Health Affairs (Project Hope), (1) 119-23, (January 2016)
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“Medicaid Expansion Did Not Result In Significant Employment Changes Or Job Reductions In 2014,” (with A. Gooptu, A.S. Moriya, B.D. Sommers), Health Affairs (Project Hope), (1) 111-8, (January 2016)
- “Public health insurance expansions and hospital technology adoption,” (with S. Freedman and H. Lin), Journal of Public Economics (2014)
- “The Earnings and Consulting Income of U.S. Health Economists: Results from the 2012 Survey of the American Society of Health Economists,” (with J. Cawley and M. Morrisey). American Journal of Health Economics (2015)
- “Is the medical loss ratio a good target measure or regulation in the individual market for health insurance?" (with J. Abraham, and P. Karaca-Mandic), Health Economics, 24 (1): 55-74 (2014)
- “Did they come to the dance?: Insurer participation in exchanges,” (with J. Abraham and R. Feldman), American Journal of Managed Care, 20(12): 1022-1030 (2014)
- “Marital disruption and health insurance,” (with E. Peters, and J. Taber), Demography, 51 (4): 1397-1421 (2014)
- “Taxpayer Willingness-to-Pay for Health Insurance Reform: A Contingent Valuation Analysis” (with K. Lavetti and W. White). Economic Inquiry Volume 52, Issue 3, pages 994–1013, July 2014