Working Papers
- The Effect of Medicaid on Crime: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
- with Amy Finkelstein and Katherine Baicker, NBER Working Paper 33244.
- The Causal Effects of Income on Political Attitudes and Behavior: A Randomized Field Experiment
- with Elizabeth Rhodes, Alex Bartik, David Broockman, Patrick Krause and Eva Vivalt, NBER Working Paper
- The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Household Balance Sheets: Experimental Evidence from Two US States
- with Elizabeth Rhodes, Alex Bartik, David Broockman, Patrick Krause and Eva Vivalt, NBER Working Paper
- Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income
- with Elizabeth Rhodes, Alex Bartik, David Broockman, Patrick Krause and Eva Vivalt, revise and resubmit, American Economic Review
- The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States
- with Eva Vivalt, Elizabeth Rhodes, Alex Bartik, David Broockman, and Patrick Krause, NBER Working Paper
- The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income
- with Amelia Hawkins, Christopher Hollrah, Laura R.Wherry, Mitchell Wong and Gloria Aldana, conditionally accepted, American Economic Review
- Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
- with Kate Kennedy-Moulton, Petra Persson, Maya Rossin-Slater, Laura R. Wherry and Gloria Aldana, revise and resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics
- Covering Undocumented Immigrants: The Effects of A Large-Scale Prenatal Care Intervention
- with Laura R. Wherry, revise and resubmit, AEJ: Economic Policy
- Does Increasing Access to Formal Credit Reduce Payday Borrowing?
- with Cindy K. Soo, NBER Working Paper 27783
Publications
- The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid
- with Colleen Carey and Marika Cabral, forthcoming, AEJ: Economic Policy
- Hospital Facility Prices Declined As A Result Of Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap
- with Roslyn C. Murray (lead author), Zach Y. Brown, Edward C. Norton, and Andrew M. Ryan, Health Affairs, 43(3) (2024).
- Health Insurance Coverage And Access To Care Among LGBT Adults, 2013–19
- with Andrew Bolibol, Thomas Buchmueller, and Benjamin Lewis, Health Affairs, 42(6) (2023).
- Difference Does a Diagnosis Make? Evidence from Marginal Patients
- with Mattan Alalouf and Laura R. Wherry, accepted, American Journal of Health Economics.
- Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health
- with Chloe East, Marianne Page, and Laura Wherry, American Economic Review 113(1):98-135 (2023).
- The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion
- with Laura R. Wherry and Diana Greene Foster, AEJ: Economic Policy 15(1):394-437 (2023).
- Estimated Mortality Increases During The COVID-19 Pandemic By Socioeconomic Status, Race, And Ethnicity
- with Laura R. Wherry and Bhashkar Mazumder, Health Affairs (2021).
- Adverse Selection in Medicaid: Evidence from Discontinuous Program Rules
- with Betsy Cliff (lead author), Jeffrey T. Kullgren, John Z. Ayanian, Richard A. Hirth, American Journal of Health Economics 8(1):127-150 (2021).
- Drug Firms’ Payments and Physicians’ Prescribing Behavior in Medicare Part D
- with Colleen Carey and Ethan Lieber, Journal of Public Economics 197 (2021).
- Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
- with Norman Johnson and Laura R. Wherry, Quarterly Journal of Economics 136(3):1783-1829 (2021).
- The ACA Medicaid Expansion in Michigan and Financial Health
- with Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhashkar Mazumder, and Ashley Wong, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 40(2):348-375 (2021).
- What Happens After an Abortion Denial? A Review of Results from the Turnaway Study
- with Laura R. Wherry and Diana Greene Foster, AEA Papers and Proceedings 110:226-230 (2020).
- Do Neighborhoods Affect Credit Market Decisions of Low-Income Borrowers? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
- with Cindy Soo, Review of Financial Studies 34(2): 827-863 (2021).
- The Impact of Insurance Expansions on the Already Insured: The Affordable Care Act and Medicare
- with Colleen Carey and Laura R. Wherry, AEJ: Applied Economics 12(4):288-318 (2020).
- The Long-Term Effects of Early Life Medicaid Coverage Appendix
- with Laura Wherry, Journal of Human Resources 54(3):785-824 (2019).
- Four Years Later: Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Continue to Diverge Between ACA Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States
- with Laura Wherry, AEA Papers and Proceedings 109:327-333 (2019).
- The Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Financial Well-Being
- with Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhashkar Mazumder, and Ashley Wong, Journal of Public Economics 163:99-112 (2018).
- Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization Appendix
- with Laura Wherry, Robert Kaestner, and Bruce D. Meyer, Review of Economics and Statistics 100(2):287-302 (2018).
- Health and Access to Care during the First 2 Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions
- with Laura Wherry, New England Journal of Medicine. 376: 947-956 (2017).
- Previous Medicaid Expansion May Have Had Lasting Positive Effects on Oral Health of Non-Hispanic Black Children
- with Lipton BJ, Wherry LR, Kenney GM, and Decker SL, Health Affairs 35(12):2249-2258 (2016).
- Early Coverage, Access, Utilization, and Health Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions: A Quasi-Experimental Study
- with Laura Wherry, Annals of Internal Medicine 164(12): 795-803 (2016).
- How Do Providers Respond to Changes in Public Health Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits
- with Thomas Buchmueller and Marko Vujicic, AEJ: Economic Policy 8(4):70-102 (2016).
- The Effects of the Massachusetts Health Reform on Household Financial Distress
- with Bhashkar Mazumder, AEJ: Economic Policy 8(3): 284-313 (2016).
- Information and Default in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- Journal of Financial Intermediation 24(1): 45-70 (2015).
- Effect of Insurance Expansion on Utilization of Inpatient Surgery
- with Chandy Ellimoottil, John Ayanian, and David Miller, JAMA Surgery 149(8):829-836 (2014).
- The effect of the Massachusetts reform on health care utilization
- Inquiry 49(4):317-26 (2013).
- The effect of insurance on emergency room visits: An analysis of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform
- Journal of Public Economics 96(11): 893-908 (2012).
- The Impact of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Health Care Use among Children
- American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 102(3): 502-07 (2012).