Recent Publications
Journal Articles
2009
Unutzer, J., Schoenbaum, Michael, W.J. Katon, M.Y. Fan, H.A. Pincus, D. Hogan, and J. Taylor. "Healthcare Costs Associated with Depression in Medically Ill Fee-for-Service Medicare Participants." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, . 2009.
2008
Levy, Helen, and David Meltzer. "The Impact of Health Insurance on Health." Annual Review of Public Health, 29: 399-409. 2008.
2006
DeLeire, T., J.A. Levine, and Helen Levy. "Is welfare reform responsible for low-skilled women's declining health insurance coverage in the 1990s?" Journal of Human Resource, . 2006.
2005
Jackson, K.M., K.J. Sher, and John E. Schulenberg. "Conjoint developmental trajectories of young adult alcohol and tobacco use." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114: 612-626. 2005.
Prentice, J.C., A.R. Pebley, and Narayan Sastry . "Immigration Status and Health Insurance Coverage: Who Gains? Who Loses?" American Journal of Public Health, 95(1)109-116. 2005.
2004
Ismail, A.I., S. Birch, W. Sohn, James M. Lepkowski, and R.F. Belli. "Utilities of Dentin Regeneration Among Insured and Uninsured Adults." Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, . 2004.
Miranda, J., Michael Schoenbaum, C. Sherbourne, N. Duan, and K. Wells. "Effects of Primary Care Depression Treatment on Minority Patients' Clinical Status and Employment." Archives of General Psychiatry, . 2004.
Schoenbaum, Michael, K. Kelleher, J.R. Lave, S. Green, D. Keyser, and H. Pincus. "Exploratory Evidence on the Market for Effective Depression Care in Pittsburgh." Psychiatric Services, . 2004.
Dombkowski, K.J., Paula M. Lantz, and G.L. Freed. "Role of Health Insurance and a Usual Source of Medical Care in Age-Appropriate Vaccination." American Journal of Public Health, . 2004.
Langa, Kenneth M., E.B. Larson, R.B. Wallace, A. Mark Fendrick, N.L. Foster, M.U. Kabeto, David Weir, and Robert Willis. "Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditures Among Older Americans With Dementia." Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, . 2004.
Bound, John, Julianne Cullen, Austin Nichols, and Lucille G. Schmidt. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity." Journal of Public Economics, . 2004.
Fuller, C.M., Sandro Galea, S. Blaney, D. Ompad, S. Deren, D. DesJarlais, and D. Vlahov. "Explaining the Relationship Between Race/Ethnicity and Pharmacy Syringe Purchases Among IDUs in New York City." Ethnicity and Disease, . 2004.
Boscarino, J.A., Sandro Galea, R. Adams, J. Ahern, H. Resnick, and D. Vlahov. "Mental Health Service and Psychiatric Medication Use Following the Terrorist Attacks in New York City." Psychiatric Services, 55: 274-283. 2004.
2003
Haider, Steven J., A. Jacknowitz, and Robert F. Schoeni. "Food Stamps and the Elderly : Why is Participation So Low?" Journal of Human Resources, . 2003.
Dong, ong H, B. Kouyate, Rachel C. Snow, F. Mugisha, and R. Sauerborn. "Gender's effect on willingness-to-pay for community-based insurance in Burkina Faso." Health Policy, . 2003.
Goldman, D.P., S.H. Berry, M.S. Mccabe, M.L. Kilgore, A.L. Potosky, Michael Schoenbaum, M. Schonlau, J.C. Weeks, R. Kaplan, and J.J. Escarce. "Incremental Treatment Costs in National Cancer Institute-Sponsored Clinical Trials." Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association, . 2003.
Miranda, J., N.H. Duan, C. Sherbourne, Michael Schoenbaum, I. Lagomasino, M. Jackson-Triche, and K.B. Wells. "Improving Care for Minorities: Can Quality Improvement Interventions Improve Care and Outcomes for Depressed Minorities? Results of a Randomized, Controlled Trial." Health Services Research, . 2003.
2002
Schoeni, Robert F. "Does Unemployment Insurance Displace Familial Assistance?" Public Choice, . 2002.
Bhattacharya, J., Michael Schoenbaum, and N. Sood. "Optimal Contributions to Flexible Spending Accounts." Economics Letters, . 2002.
Studdert, D.M., J. Bhattacharya, Michael Schoenbaum, Bruce L. Warren, and J.J. Escarce. "Personal Choices of Health Plans by Managed Care Experts." Medical Care, . 2002.
Scanlon, Dennis P., Michael Chernew, Catherine G. McLaughlin, and Gary Solon. "The Impact of Health Plan Report Cards on Managed Care Enrollment." Journal of Health Economics, . 2002.
Boscarino, J.A., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, H. Resnick, and D. Vlahov. "Utilization of mental health services following the September 11th terrorist attacks in Manhattan, New York City." International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, . 2002.
Chapters
Levy, Helen. "Health Insurance Patterns Nearing Retirement." In Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare? edited by B. Madrian, O. Mitchell, and B. Soldo. Ch.8. Oxford University Press. 2007.
Levy, Helen, and D. Meltzer. "What Do We Really Know About Whether Health Insurance Affects Health?" In Health Policy on the Uninsured: Setting the Agenda edited by C.G. McLaughlin. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press. 2004.
PSC Reports
Nicholas, Lauren. "Medicare Advantage? The Effects of Managed Care on Quality of Care." PSC Research Report No. 09-672. February 2009.
Nicholas, Lauren. "Who Joins Medicare Managed Care? Voluntary Enrollment and Positive Selection." PSC Research Report No. 09-670. February 2009.
Nicholas, Lauren. "Does Managed Care Reduce Federal Spending? Evidence from Medicare." PSC Research Report No. 09-671. February 2009.
Reville, Robert, and Robert F. Schoeni. "The Fraction of Disability Caused at Work." PSC Research Report No. 04-551. February 2004.
VanLandingham, Mark, Wassana Im-em, and Fumihiko Yokota. "Access to Treatment and Care Associated with HIV Infection among Members of AIDS Support Groups in Thailand." PSC Research Report No. 04-550. February 2004.
Bound, John, Julie Berry Cullen, Austin Nichols, and Lucille G. Schmidt. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity." PSC Research Report No. 02-518. August 2002.
Other Reports
Levy, Helen. "Health insurance and the wage gap." NBER Working Paper No. 11975. 2006.
