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Helen Levy
Funded Research:
Cognition, Medicare spending and mortality among the elderly (Pfizer, Inc.)
Food Stamp Use Among the Elderly: Evidence from Panel Data (Department of Agriculture)
Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
Health Literacy and Health Disparities Among the Elderly (NIA)
Medicare Part D and Crowd-Out of Employer-Provided Drug Coverage (Mueller)
New Evidence on the Persistence of High Health Spending (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality)
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
What Triggers Loss of Health Insurance Among the Near-Elderly? (NIA)
What's so Bad About Crowd-Out? Rethinking the Consequences of SCHIP Expansion (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center.
Research Associate Professor, G. Ford School of Public Policy.
Research Associate Professor, School of Public Health.
Ph.D., Princeton University
Dr. Levy's research interests include the causes and consequences of lacking health insurance, evaluation of public health insurance programs,and the role of health literacy in explaining disparities in health outcomes. She is a co-Investigator on the Health and Retirement Study, a long-running longitudinal study of health and economic dynamics at older ages. She is currently the recipient of a Career Development Award (K01) from the National Institute on Aging to study health literacy and health disparities among the elderly.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Leininger, Lindsey, Helen Levy, and Diane Schanzenbach. 2010. "Consequences of SCHIP Expansions for Household Well-Being." Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 13(1). Abstract. Public Access.
Levy, Helen. 2010. "Who Has the Cure? Hamilton Project Ideas on Health Care." Journal of Economic Literature, 48(2): 464-466.
Levy, Helen, and David Weir. 2010. "Take-up of Medicare Part D: Results From the Health and Retirement Study." Journals of Gerontology B Psychology Science Social Science, 65B(4): 492-501. DOI.
Gruber, Jonathan H., and Helen Levy. 2009. "The evolution of medical spending risk." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(4): 25-48. Abstract. Local Access.
McLaughlin, Catherine, Helen Levy, and Brian Quinn. 2009. "Aspects of Health Reform: Introduction." Inquiry - The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, 46(2): 182-186. Abstract.
Rhodes, Karin V., Teri L. Vieth, Hallie Kushner, Helen Levy, and Brent R. Asplin. 2009. "Referral Without Access: For Psychiatric Services, Wait for the Beep." Annals of Emergency Medicine, 54(2): 272-278. DOI. Abstract.
Levy, Helen, and T. DeLeire. 2008. "What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance and What Does that Say about Why They Are Uninsured?" Inquiry-the Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, 45(4): 365-379. Abstract. Public Access. Local Access.
Levy, Helen, and David Meltzer. 2008. "The Impact of Health Insurance on Health." Annual Review of Public Health, 29: 399-409. DOI. Abstract.
Chapters
Levy, Helen. 2008. "How is Health Insurance Affected by the Economy? Public and Private Coverage Among Low-Skilled Adults in the 1990s." In Working and poor : how economic and policy changes are affecting low-wage workers edited by Blank, Rebecca M., Danziger, Sheldon H., Schoeni, Robert F.. :396-428. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Levy, Helen. 2007. "Health insurance and the transition to adulthood." In The price of independence: the economics of early adulthood edited by Sheldon Danziger, Cecilia Elena Rouse. New York : Russell Sage Foundation.