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eriu: Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured Initiating and disemminating research to spark new policy discussion on health coverage issues.
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Aizer, Anna
Grogger, Jeffrey

Parental Medicaid Expansions and Health Insurance Coverage


Bansak, Cynthia
Raphael, Steven

The Effects of State Policy Design Features on Take Up and Crowd Out Rates for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program

 

Bhattacharya, Jay
Schoenbaum, Michael

The Value of the Medicare Benefit for Social Security Disability Insurance Recipients and Applicants


Blumberg, Linda
Nichols, Len

Why Are So Many Americans Uninsured? A Conceptual Framework, Summary of the Evidence, and Delineation of the Gaps in Our Knowledge

Research Highlight 3: Can the Employer-Based Health Insurance System Reduce America's Uninsured?
(also available in HTML)

Q & A with Linda Blumberg, Ph.D. (HTML)

 

Borjas, George

Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population

Research Highlight 7: Welfare Reform Reduced Public Coverage, Increased Employer Coverage Among Immigrants
(also available in HTML)

Q & A with George Borjas, Ph.D. (HTML)

Research Findings: Coverage Rates Increased for Immigrants after Welfare Reform (HTML)

 

Bundorf, M. Kate
Pauly, Mark V.

 

The Uninsured: Risk, Income, and “Affordability” of Coverage

 

Cawley, John
Simon, Kosali

The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Health Insurance Coverage of Americans

Research Highlight 5: Rising Uninsured Rates: It's Employment, Not the Economy, Stupid
(also available in HTML)

Q & A with John Cawley, Ph.D. (HTML)

Research Findings: Macroeconomic Influence On Health Insurance (HTML)

 

Chernew, Michael
Cutler, David
Keenan, Patricia

Rising Health Care Costs and the Decline in Insurance Coverage

Research Findings: Rising Costs Decrease Coverage (HTML)

 

Chernew, Michael
Hirth, Richard

Modeling the Causes and Consequences of Lack of Health Insurance Coverage: Gaps in the Literature

 

Christian, Michael S.

 

The Distribution of Medicaid and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage Among Immigrants Before and After the 1996 Welfare Reform

 

Crow, Sarah
Harrington, Mary
McLaughlin, Catherine

Sources of Vulnerability: A Critical Review of the Literature on Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants, and Persons with Chronic Mental Illness

 

DeLeire, Thomas
Levine, Judith
Levy, Helen

Is Welfare Reform Responsible for Low-Skilled Women’s Declining Health Insurance Coverage in the 1990s?

 

Dey, Matthew
Flinn, Christopher

An Equilibrium Model of Health Insurance Provision and Wage Determination

 

Dushi, Irena
Honig, Marjorie

Offers or Take-Up: Explaining Minorities’ Lower Health Insurance Coverage

 

Ellis, Randall P.
Ma, Albert C. T.

 

Health Insurance, Expectations, and Job Turnover

 

Fang, Hanming
Silverman, Dan

Beliefs About Future Health and the Demand for Health and Health Insurance

 

Geronimus, Arline
Bound, John

Urban/Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations: Evidence from the Harlem Health Survey and Pitt County Hypertension Study

 

Gruber, Jonathan
Madrian, Brigitte

Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature

 

Gruber, Jonathan
McKnight, Robin

Why Did Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rise?

Research Findings: Higher Tax Rates Increase Employee Health Insurance Contributions (HTML)

 

Gruber, Jonathan
Washington, Ebonya

Subsidies to Employee Health Insurance Premiums and the Health Insurance Market

Research Highlight 4: No Bang for the Buck: Subsidizing Workers' Premiums to Reduce Uninsured Rates
(also available in HTML)

Q & A with Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D. (HTML)

Research Findings: Premium Subsidies Have Small Effect on Coverage (HTML)

 

Haas, Jennifer
Swartz, Katherine

The Effects of Worker, Firm, and Market Characteristics on Access to Employer Sponsored Health Insurance

 

Hill, Steven C.
Kreider, Brent

 

Partially Identifying Treatment Effects in the Presence of Unobserved Treatments: The Case of Universal Health Insurance

 

Kuttner, Hanns
Baughman, Reagan
Christian, Michael
Mortensen, Karoline

 

Employment and Health Insurance: Views from Five Surveys

 

Lang, Kevin
Kang, Hong

Worker Sorting,Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage

 

Lang, Kevin
Kang, Hong

Why Do Firms Offer Multiple Health Plans?

 

Levy, Helen

The Economic Consequences of Being Uninsured

 

Levy, Helen
Meltzer, David

What Do We Really Know About Whether Health Insurance Affects Health?

Research Highlight 2: Jumping to Conclusions: Will Expanding Health Care Insurance Improve the Health of the Uninsured?
(also available in HTML)

Q & A with David Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D. (HTML)


Lo Sasso, Anthony
Lurie, Ithai
Buchmueller, Thomas
Senesky, Sarah

 

Immigrants and Employer-Provided Health Insurance

Maxwell, Nan L.
Paringer, Lynn

Employer-Based Health Insurance for Less-Skilled Workers: Offers and Acceptances

Appendices

 

McGuire, Thomas
Alegria, Margerita
Cao, Zhun
Takeuchi, David

Health Insurance for Vulnerable Populations: Understanding Differences across Asian American and Latino Subgroups in the United States

 

Monheit, Alan C.
Vistnes, Jessica Primoff

 

Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Understanding the Role of Preferences for Coverage

 

Pollack, Harold
Davis, Matthew
Danziger, Sheldon
Orzol, Sean

Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Among Former Welfare Recipients

Research Findings: Coverage and Access Lower Among Welfare Leavers (HTML)

 

Pollack, Harold
Kronebusch, Karl

Health Insurance and Vulnerable Populations

 

Royalty, Anne Beeson
Abraham, Jean

Health Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes: Joint Decision-Making Within Households

 

Royalty, Anne
Hagens, John

The Effect of Premiums on the Decision to Participate in Health Insurance and Other Fringe Benefits Offered by the Employer: Evidence from a Real-World Experiment

Research Findings: Workers Less Sensitive to Price of Health Insurance Than Other Employer-Provided Benefits (HTML)

 

Short, Pamela Farley

Counting and Characterizing the Uninsured

Research Highlight 1: A Revolving Door: How Individuals Move In and Out of Health Insurance Coverage

Q & A with Pamela Farley Short, Ph.D. (HTML)

 

Waidmann, Timothy
Garrett, Bowen
Hadley, Jack

Explaining Differences in Employer Sponsored Insurance Coverage by Race, Ethnicity and Immigrant Status

 

Weir, David
Willis, Robert

Widowhood, Divorce, and Loss of Health Insurance Among Near-Elderly Women: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Research Findings: Widowhood Doesn’t Cause Coverage Loss (HTML)

 

Wolfe, Barbara
Kaplan, Thomas
Haveman, Robert
Cho, Yoon Young

Extending Health Care Coverage to the Low-Income Population: The Influence of the Wisconsin BadgerCare Program on Insurance Coverage

 

Yelowitz, Aaron

Medicaid and Work Decisions of Married Women