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  08/09/19     HEALTH CARE ISSUES
"The Effect of State Mandates on Health Insurance Premiums"  Stephan Gohmann and Myra J. McCrickard
"Health Care in Crisis: The Drive for Health Reform in Canada and the United States"  Theodore R. Marmor and Antonia Maioni
"Health Indexes and Retirement Modeling in International Comparisons"  Erik Meijer, Arie Kapteyn and Tatiana Andreyeva
"The Grass is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems Around the World"
Michael Tanner
"The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance"
John F. Cogan, Daniel P. Kessler and Robert Glenn Hubbard
"Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?" Alan M. Garber and Jonathan S. Skinner
"Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System"  
Randall Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor and Mark Votruba
 
  08/28/08     HEALTHCARE
"The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential Candidates"  Marcos Pompeu Pareto
"What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption"  Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Matt Notowidigdo
"State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor?"  Ellen Meara, Meredith B. Rosenthal, Anna Sinaiko and Katherine Baicker
"Health Insurance Policy Design and Competing Objectives"  David P. Bernstein
"Lessons from the Evolution of 401(K) Retirement Plans for Increased Consumerism in Health Care: An Application of Behavioral Research"  Jodi DiCenzo and Paul Fronstin
"The Impact of Immigration on Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 1994-2006"  
Paul Fronstin
"Labor Markets and Health Benefits: The Offer and Restrictions on It"  Nan L. Maxwell
"Saving for Health Care Expenses in Retirement: The Use of Health Savings Accounts"  Paul Fronstin
"Entitlements: Not Just a Health Care Problem"  Andrew G. Biggs
"Value-Based Mandated Health Benefits"  Amy Monahan
 
  07/31/08     HEALTH CARE
"Can VEBAs Alleviate Retiree Health Care Problems?"  Aaron Bernstein
"The Impact of Late-Career Health and Employment Shocks on Social Security and Other Wealth" Richard W. Johnson, Gordon Mermin and Dan Murphy
"Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice{  M. Kate Bundorf, Jonathan Levin and Neale A. Mahoney
"Who Receives Offers of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance?" David P. Bernstein
"Labor Markets and Health Benefits: The Offer and Restrictions on It"  Nan L. Maxwell
 
  05/14/08     HEALTHCARE
"Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries"  Michael Chernew, Philip DeCicca and Robert J. Town,
"Modernizing Medicare: Protecting America's Most Vulnerable Patients from Predatory Health Care Marketing Through Accessible Legal Remedies"  Elizabeth Canney Borer
"Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance"  Richard Frank and Karine Lamiraud
"Findings From the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Survey"  Paul Fronstin and Sara R. Collins
"Findings from the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey: Implications for Plan Sponsors"  Richard Ostuw
"The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men"  David M. Blau and Donna B. Gilleskie
"Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption"  Sherry Glied
 
  03/27/08     HEALTH CARE
"The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits: Will Employers Reach a Tipping Point?"  John A. MacDonald
"The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending"  John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard and Daniel P. Kessler
"Health Insurance: Market Failure or Government Failure?"  David A. Hyman
"The Patient Life: Can Consumers Direct Health Care?"  Carl E. Schneider and Mark A. Hall
"Will the Slowdown in U.S. Health Cost Growth Continue? A Factor Market Perspective"  John Sabelhaus
"Measuring Financial Protection in Health"  Adam Wagstaff
"Healthcare Reform in the United States: The Role of the States"  Arthur B. LaFrance
 
  03/20/08     RETIREMENT
"Estimating the Health Effects of Retirement"  John Bound and Timothy Waidmann
"Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement"  John Laitner and Dan Silverman
"Burnout and the Retirement Decision"  Nicole Maestas and Xiaoyan Li
"Measuring Retirement Resource Adequacy"  Peter J. Brady
"Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning: New Evidence from the Rand American Life Panel"  
Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
"Labor Market Status and Transitions During the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences"  Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest and James Banks
"Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies"  
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
"Hours Flexibility and Retirement"  Kerwin Kofi Charles and Philip DeCicca
 
  02/21/08     HEALTH CARE
"Gender Differences in the Valuation of Employer-Provided Health Insurance"  Nasser Daneshvary and Terrence M. Clauretie,
"Life Care Payments Vs. Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums"  Burgess J.W. Raby and William L. Raby
"Curing Healthcare"  Stuart Crainer
"Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit"  Edward A. Zelinsky
"Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance" David M. Cutler, Amy Finkelstein and Kathleen M. McGarry,
"Covering the Uninsured in the U.S."  Jonathan Gruber
 
  01/31/08     HEALTHCARE
"On the Preference for Full-Coverage Policies: Why do People Buy Too Much Insurance?" Zur Shapira and Itzhak Venezia
"The Emerging Paradigm in the United States." Arleen Leibowitz
"Listening to Consumers: Values-Focused Health Benefits and Education" Lois A. Vitt and Ray Werntz
"How Can We Efficiently Cover the Uninsured? A Micro-Simulation Model of Health Insurance Coverage."   Asako Shimazaki
"Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?" Richard V. Burkhauser and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
"The Right to Health - A Holistic Health Plan for the Next Administration" Barbara P. Billauer
"Death and Taxes: The Impact of Income Taxation on Health" Anca Maria Cotet
 
  12/13/07     HEALTHCARE
"The Macroeconomic Consequences of Financing Health Insurance" Stephen B. Deloach and Jennifer M. Platania
"Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S." June O'Neill and Dave M O'Neill
"2007 Health Confidence Survey: Rising Health Care Costs are Changing the Ways Americans Use the Health Care System" Ruth Helman and Paul Fronstin
"The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts" Juergen Jung and Chung Tran
"Legal Implications of Proposed GM/UAW VEBA" Stephen F. Diamond
"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Early Retirees: Impacts on Retirement, Health, and Health Care" Erin Strumpf
 
  11/15/07     HEALTH AND WORK
"Older Workers' Access to Employer-Sponsored Retiree Health Insurance, 2000-2004" Christine Eibner, Alice M. Zawacki and Elaine M. Zimmerman
"A Tax on Work for the Elderly: Medicare as a Secondary Payer" Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita N. Slavov
"Health Insurance and Labor Markets: Concepts, Open Questions, and Data Needs" A. Bowen Garrett and Michael Chernew
"The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes" Dhaval Dave, Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevice
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2007 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
 
  11/08/07     ERISA AND HEALH
"Trust Law as Regulatory Law: The Unum/Provident Scandal and Judicial Review of Benefit Denials Under ERISA" John H. Langbein
"ERISA Preemption and Fair Share Legislation" Sharon Reece
"ERISA Pre-emption and Health Care Reform: A History Lesson" Michael S. Gordon
"Governor Schwarzenegger's Proposal for Univeral Health Care: A Policy-Based and Legal Analysis" James W. Kim
"The Massachusetts Health Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" David A. Hyman
"The Health Care Choice Act: The Individual Insurance Market and the Politics of 'Choice'" Elizabeth A. Pendo
"Taxing the Disabled: The IRS, the Insurance Industry, and the Disability Waiver of Premium Rider" Andrew Strelka
"Fiduciary Constraints: Correlating Obligation With Liability" Dana M. Muir and Cindy A. Schipani
 
  09/13/07     HEALTH CARE
"Modeling Employee Choice of Health Plan" Caroline Carlin and Robert J. Town
"Premium Growth between 1997 and 2004 and its Effect on Employer-Sponsored Insurance" Thomas M. Selden and Jessica Primoff Vistnes
"Demand for High-Deductible and 'Consumer-Directed' Health Plans" Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Roland D. McDevitt, Hayoung Park, Cheryl Damberg and Ryan Lore
"Benefit Limits for Behavioral Health Care in Private US Health Plans" Dominic Hodgkin, Constance Horgan, Deborah Garnick and Elizabeth Merrick
"State Health Insurance Mandates, Consumer Directed Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: Are They a Panacea for Small Businesses?" Susan M. Gates, Kanika Kapur and Pinar Karaca-Mandic
"The Role of Health Insurance in the Joint Retirement of Married Couples" Kanika Kapur and Jeannette A. Rogowski
"Labor Market Effects of Employer-Provided Health Insurance" Katerina Sherstyuk, Yoav Wachsman and Gerard Russo
"Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage" Kevin Land and Hong Kang
 
  08/09/07     HEALTH POLICY
"Impact of Tort Reform on Private Health Insurance Coverage" Ronen Avraham and Max M. Schanzenbach
"Public Support for National Health Insurance: Roles of Attitudes and Beliefs" M. Kate Bundorf and Victor R. Fuchs
"Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed" Gulcin Gumus and Tracy Regan
"Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly" Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight
"Can the Elderly Have Too Much Choice?: Insurance for Prescription Drugs and Long-Term Care"  THOMAS RICE, Yaniv Hanock, Betty E. Tanius and Stacey Wood      
 
  06/22/07     HEALTHCARE ISSUES
"Global Perspectives on Financing Long-Term Care" Kim Dayton
"Health Insurance Coverage Among Youth and Young Adults with Work Limitations" Bonnie O'Day, David C. Stapleton and Ann E Horvath-Rose
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Updated Analysis of the March 2006 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Benefit Limits for Behavioral Health Care in Private US Health Plans" Dominic Hodgkin, Constance Horgan, Deborah Garnick and Elizabeth Merrick
"Tax Expenditures and Employee Benefits: Estimates from the FY 2008 Budget" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"ERISA Pre-emption and Health Care Reform: A History Lesson" Michael S. Gordon
"Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Critiques and Proposals" Doug Jones
 
  05/17/07     HEALTHCARE
"Consumer Directed Health Care" John C. Goodman
"Big-Box Benefits: The Targeting of Giants in a National Campaign to Raise Work Conditions" Orly Lovel
"The New Massachusetts Health Law: Preemption and Experimentation" Edward A.Zelinsky
"President's 'Affordable Choices' Initiative Provides Little Support for State Efforts to Expand Health Coverage" Judith Solomon
"How Does Health Insurance Affect Workers Compensation Filing?" Darius N. Lakdawalla, Robert T. Reville and Seth A. Seabury
 
  04/12/07     HEALTH CARE
"The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured" Daniel Polsky, Jalpa Doshi, Jose Escarce, Willard G.Manning, Susan Paddock, Liyi Cen and Jeannette A.Rogowski
"Health Accounts and Other Welfare Accounts" J. Michael Orszg, Robert Gidehag, Dennis J. Snower and Stefan Foelster
"Retiree Health Benefit Coverage and Retirement" James Marton and Stephen Woodbury
"An Evaluation of the President's Health Insurance Proposal" Leonard E Burman, Jason Furman, Greg Leiserson and Roberton C. Williams
"Employment-Based Health Benefits: Access and Coverage, 1988-2005" Paul Fronstin
 
  03/15/07     HEALTH CARE
"Making Universal Health Care Work" Jonathan Barry Forman
"The Implications of Paying for Current Medicare" Thomas R. Saving
"Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?" Jonathan Gruber and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
"The Economic Impact of Disability in the U.S., 1997: Total and Incremental Estimates"Miriam Cisternas, Edward H. Yelin and Laura Trupin
"Workers' Compensation, Social Security Disability Insurance, and the Offset: A Fact Sheet" Virginia P.Reno, Cecili Thompson Williams and Ishita Sengupta
   
 
  02/15/07     HEALTHCARE
"Pay or Play Laws, Erisa Preemption, and Potential Lessons from Massachusetts" Amy Monahan
"Health Insurance Coverage of the Near Elderly, 1994-2005" Paul Fronstin
"The Moral Foundations of Health Insurance" Jennifer Prah Ruger
"Distributive Injustice(s) in American Health Care" Clark C. Havighurst and Barak D. Richman
"Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement" Beth Soldo, Olivia S. Mitchell and Rania Tfaily    
 
  01/18/07     HEALTH CARE
"The Rise of Same-Sex Partner Health Benefits in Fortune 500 Corporations, 1990-2003" You-Ta Chuang, Robin L. Church and Ron Ophir
"Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression" Rena M. Conti, Ernst R. Berndt and Richard Frank
"Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey" Jeffrey R. Brown, Norma B. Coe and Amy Finkelstein
"Health Care Reform in the United States: Why, When and How?" Douglas Holtz-Eakin
"The 2nd Annual EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey, 2006: Early Experience With High-Deductible and Consumer-Driven Health Plans" Paul Fronstin and Sara R. Collins
 
  12/15/06     HEALTHCARE
"Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance" Jayanta Bhattacharya and William B. Vogt
"The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured" Daniel Polsky, Jalpa Doshi and Willard G. Manning
"2006 Health Confidence Survey: Dissatisfaction with Health Care System Doubles Since 1998" Ruth Helman and Paul Fronstin
"Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2004" Ishita Sengupta, Virginia P. Reno and John F. Burton
"The Employer's Role in Reforming the U.S. Health Care System" Kenneth L. Sperling
 
  11/09/06     HEALTHCARE
"Global Perspectives on Financing Long-Term Care" Kim Dayton
"Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take Up" Alan Monheit and Jessica Primoff Vistnes
"How Readable are Summary Plan Descriptions for Health Care Plans?" Colleen Medill, Richard Wiener, Brian Bornstein and E. Kiernan McGorty
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2006 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Federalism, Federal Regulation, or Free Market? An Examination of Mandated Health Benefit Reform" Amy Monahan
 
  08/11/06     HEALTH AND DISABILITY
"Balancing the Goals of Health Care Provision" Martin S. Feldstein
"Savings Needed to Fund Health Insurance and Health Care Expenses in Retirement" Paul Fronstin
"How Household Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Aging and Health Shocks" Courtney Coile and Kevin Milligan
"Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances" BasVander Klaauw, Maarten Lindeboom and Ana LLena Nozal
"The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding" David H. Autor and Mark G. Duggan
"Health Savings Accounts: Do the Critics have a Point?" Michael F. Cannon
 
  07/13/06     HEALTHCARE
"Employer-Provided Health Insurance and the Incidence of 'Job-Lock': Is There a Consensus?" Inas Rashad
"Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement Among Married Couples" Jeannette A. Rogowski and Kanika Kapur
"Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain" Arthur H. O. Wan Soest, Arie Kapteyn and James P. Smith
"The Tax Treatment of Health Insurance and Employment-Based Health Benefits" Paul Fronstin "Health Insurance Coverage and Reemployment Outcomes among Older Displaced Workers" Y. Y. Lin
 
  05/18/06     HEALTH INSURANCE
"Health Insurance Take-up by the Near Elderly" Thomas C. Buchmueller and Sabina Ohri
"Health Insurance and the Wage Gap" Helen Levy
"Lost Jobs and Health Insurance: An Analysis of the Impact of Employment Volatility on Firm-Provided Health Insurance Coverage" Fredrik Andersson, Iben Bolvig, Matthew Freedman and Julia Lane
"The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes" Dhaval Dave, Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevic
"The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets" Brigitte C. Madrian
"The Impact of Hours of Work on Employment-Based Health Benefits" Paul Fronstin
"The Economics of Employee Benefits" Darren H. Lubotsky
 
  05/11/06     RETIREMENT
"How Sensitive are Seniors to the Price of Prescription Drugs?" Jonathan Klick and Thomas Stratmann
"Some Answers to the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle" Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
"Employment-Based Retirement Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends, 2004" Craig Copeland
"Retirement Plan Participation and Retirees' Perception of Their Standard of Living" Craig Copeland
"Retirement Annuity and Employment-Based Pension Income, Among Individuals Ages 50 and Over: 2004" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Will More of Us Be Working Forever? The 2006 Retirement Confidence Survey" Ruth Helman, Craig Copeland and Jack VanDerhei
"Counting Retirement Expenditures Before They Hatch: GASB and the New Reporting Requirements for Other Postemployment Benefits" William R. Voorhees
 
  02/09/06     HEALTHCARE
"Household Demand for Health Insurance: Price and Spouse's Coverage" Marjorie Honig and Irena Dushi
"Risk-Sharing in Retiree Medical Benefits"  Anna M. Rappaport
"What Did Medicare Do (and Was It Worth It)?" Amy Finkelstein and Robin McKnight
"The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare" Amy Finkelstein
"Information and Drug Prices: Evidence from the Medicare Discount Drug Card Program" Emin Dinlersoz, Han Li, Roger Sherman and Reuben Hernandez-Muriollo
"The Role of State Legislation in Consumer-Driven Health Care" Timothy Stoltzfus Jost and Mark A. Hall
"The Medicare Drug Benefit: A Prescription for Confusion" Richard L. Kaplan
 
  11/22/05     HEALTH POLICY
"Who's Afraid of Personal Responsibility? Health Savings Accounts and the Future of American Health Care" Richard L. Kaplan
"IRS Provides Grace Period for Taxpayers Using FSAs" Diane A. Riordan, Michael Riordan and Molly G. Brown
"Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care" Theodore Richard Marmor, Richard B. Freeman and Kieke Okma
"Health Insurance and Tax Policy" Karsten Jeske and Sagiri Kitao
"Offers or Take-up: Explaining Minorities' Lower Health Insurance Coverage" Marjorie Honig and Irena Dushi
"Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2003" Ishita Sengupta and Virginia P. Reno
"Insurance and Innovation in Health Care Markets" Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood
 
  9/22/05     HEALTHCARE
"Reviving Managed Health Care with Health Savings Accounts" Mark A. Hall and Clark C. Havighurst
"Consumer-Driven Health Care in South Africa: Lessons from Comparative Health Policy Studies" Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
"Subsidization and Choice in the Group Health Insurance Market" Yu-Luen Ma and Mark J. Browne
"Employment Protection for Atypical Workers" Katherin Van Wezel Stone
"Tax and Disability: Ability to Pay and the Taxation of Difference" Theodore P. Seto and Sande Buhai
"Employment-Based Health Benefits: Trends in Access and Coverage" Paul Fronstin
"Refundable Tax Credits for Health Insurance: The Sensitivity of Simulated Impacts to Assumed Behavior" Stephen Woodbury, David W. Emmons and Eva Madly
 
  7/14/2005     HEALTH BENEFITS
"Union Status and Employment-Based Health Benefits" Paul Fronstin
"The Impact of Immigration on Health Insurance Coverage in the United States" Paul Fronstin
"Firms' Demand for Employment-Based Mental Health Benefits" Judith A. Shinogle and David S. Salkever
"Price and the Health Plan Choices of Retirees" Thomas C. Buchmueller
"Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer" Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo and Heather Bednarek
"How Does Health Insurance Affect Workers' Compensation Filing?" Darius Lakdawalla, Robert T. Reville and Seth Seabury
 
  4/21/2005     HEALTHCARE BENEFITS
"The Impact of the Erosion of Retiree Health Benefits on Workers and Retirees" Paul Fronstin
"Potential State Government Practices Impact of the New GASB Accounting Standard for Retiree Health Benefits" Stanley C. Wisniewski
"The Relationship Between Income and Health Insurance: Rethinking the Use of Family Income in the Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Social Health Insurance: Key Factors Affecting the Transition Towards Universal Coverage" Guy Carrin and Chris James
"Health and Health Insurance: Analysis of Plan Switching Behavior" Rusty Tchernis, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Juliana Pakes, Peter Gaccione and Joseph P. Newhouse
"The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums" Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
"Extending Health Care Coverage to the Low-Income Population: The Influence of the Wisconsin BadgerCare Program on Labor Market
Outcomes"  Barbara L. Wolfe, Thomas Kaplan, Rovert H. Haveman and Yoonyoung Cho
 
  3/10/2005     HEALTH INSURANCE
"Behavioral Economics and Health Policy: Understanding Medicaid's Failure" Barak D. Richman
"The Most Important Health Care Legislation of the Millennium (So Far): The Medicare Modernization Act" Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
"The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market" Jeffrey R. Brown and Amy Finkelstein
"Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs" Dana P. Goldman, Neeraj Sood and Arleen Leibowitz
"Tax Policy for Health Insurance" Jonathan Gruber
"Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance" Lara Dawn Shore-Sheppard
"Health Insurance, Treatment and Outcomes: Using Auto Accidents as Health Shocks" Joseph J. Doyle
 
  12/02/2004     HEALTH BENEFITS
"Public Attitudes on the U.S. Health Care System: Findings From the Health Confidence Survey" Ruth Helman and Paul Fronstin
"Long-term Care Insurance Policy Dropping in the U.S. from 1996 to 2000: Evidence and Implications for Long-term Care Financing" Paul E. McNamara and Nayoung Lee
"Health Savings Accounts and Other Account-Based Health Plans" Paul Fronstin
"Uninsured Rose in 2003 as Number of Americans With Employment-Based Health Benefits Declined" Paul Fronstin
"Can Consumer-Choice Plans Satisfy Patients? Problems with Theory and Practice in Health Insurance Contracts" Wendy K. Mariner
"Behavioral Economics and Health Economics" Richard G. Frank
"Aged-Care Support in Japan: Perspectives and Challenges" Olivia S. Mitchell, John Piggott and Satoshi Shimizutani
 
  9/24/2004     HEALTHCARE ISSUES
"The Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits Against Managed Care Organizations" Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
"Has There Been a Shift to Small Firms? The Impact of Firm Size on Employment-Based Health Benefits" Paul Fronstin
"Employee Choice of Consumer Driven Health Insurance in a Multi-Plan, Multi-Product Setting" Stephen T. Parente, Roger Feldman and Jon Christianson
"Evaluation of the Effect of a Consumer Driven Health Plan on Medical Care Expenditures and Utilization" Stephen T. Parente
"When Should Medicare Coverage Begin?" Richard W. Johnson
"The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians" Doreen Au, Thomas F. Crossley and Martin Schellhorn
"How Much Might Universal Health Insurance Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Health? A Comparison of the US and Canada" Sandra L. Decker and Dahlia Remler
 
  7/29/2004     HEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT
"Medicare Program Takes On More Income-Related Features" Paul Fronstin, Jim Jaffe and Dallas L. Salisbury
"Health Savings Account: A New Defined Contribution Health Plan" Barry Salkin
"The Impact on Employment-Based Health Benefits of the Shift from a Manufacturing Economy to a Service Economy" Paul Fronstin
"Health Care Expenses in Retirement and the Use of Health Savings Accounts" Paul Fronstin and Dallas L. Salisbury
"International Comparisons of Work Disability" James Banks, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith and Arthur H.O. Van Soest
"Crime and Early Retirement Among Older Americans" Olivia S. Mitchell
 
  4/22/2004     HEALTHCARE
"The Impact of the Health Insurance Market on Small Firm Employment" Kanika Kapur
"From the Tallest to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the American Population in the 20th Century" John Komlos and MarieLuise Baur
"An Analysis of the Effect of Tax Policy on Health Insurance Purchases by Risk Group" Patricia G. Ketsche
"National Health Spending Rose 9.3 Percent in 2002; Sixth Consecutive Year of Faster Growth" Rachel Christensen Sethi and Paul Fronstin
"The 'Business Case' for Investing in Employee Health: A Review of the Literature and Employer Self-Assessments" Paul Fronstin and Ray Werntz
"Health Insurance Coverage of Individuals Ages 55-64, 1994-2002" Paul Fronstin
"Employer-Sponsored Disability Insurance: Where are the Gaps in Coverage?" Helen Levy
 
  12/18/2003     HEALTHCARE
"Contracting with Limited Commitment: Evidence from Employment-Based Health Insurance Contracts" Keith J. Crocker and John Moran
"Uninsured Rose in 2002 as Number of Americans With Employment-Based Health Benefits Declined" Paul Fronstin
"The Impact of State Managed Care Liability Statutes" Mark A. Hall and Gail B. Agrawal
"What if You Could Sue Your HMO? Managed Care Liability Beyond the ERISA Shield" Gail B. Agrawal and Mark A. Hall
"Informal Information Sharing and the Demand for Health Insurance Among the Elderly" John Moran, Jeffrey D. Kubik and Eldar Beiseitov
"Health Plan Conversions: Are They in the Public Interest?" Nancy D. Beaulieu
"Health Insurance Coverage and the Macroeconomy" John Cawley and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
"The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men" David M. Blau and Donna B. Gilleskie
 
  10/09/2003     HEALTHCARE ISSUES
"The Onset of Health Problems and the Propensity of Workers to Change Employers and Occupations" Jodi Messer Pelkowski and Mark C. Berger
"Health Insurance Costs and Early Retirement Decisions" Richard W. Johnson, Amy J. Davidoff and Kevin Perese
"ERISA Takes a Drubbing: Rush Prudential and its Implications for Health Care" E. Haavi Morreim
"Evidence-Based Medicine: Implications for Consumer-Driven Health Benefits" Jim Jaffe
"The Magnitude and Nature of Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Health Plans" Sean Nicholson, M. Kate Bundorf, Rebecca M. Stein and Daniel Polsky
"The Effects of Offering Health Plan Choice within Employment-Based Purchasing Groups" M. Kate Bundorf
 
  8/28/2003     HEALTH ISSUES
"A Comparison of the USA Health Care Effort with other OECD Countries" Eduard Gracia and Joan Fil Trasfi
"National Health Spending up 8.7 Percent Between 2000-2001; Spending for Health Care Will Continue to Grow" Paul Fronstin
"EBRI Research Highlights: Health Benefits" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance and What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured?" Helen Levy and ThomasC.Deleire
"Quality and Employers' Choice of Health Plan" Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran, Catherine G.McLaughlin and Teresa A. Gibson
"Tax Credits and the Use of Medical Care" Michael Smart and Mark Stabile
"Who Gets Health Care?" Robert W. Fogel and Chulhee Lee
"The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staffing Arrangements" Susan N. Houseman
 
  7/17/2003     HEALTH LAW AND ECONOMICS
"The Struggle over Employee Benefits: The Role of Labor in Influencing Modern Health Policy" David  Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
"Employers' Benefits from Workers' Health Insurance" Ellen O'Brien
"The Invention of Health Law" M.Gregg Bloche
"Voices Unheard: Barriers to Expressing Dissatisfaction to Health Plans"  Mark Schlesinger, Shannon M. Mitchell and Brian Elbel
"The Rise and Fall of Managed Care: A Predictable 'Tragic Choices' Phenomenon" David Orentlicher
"A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits" Joni Hersch
"The Effect of Private Insurance on Measures of Health: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study" Avi Dor, Joseph J. Sudano and David W. Baker
"Cicio v. Does, 2003 U.S.App.LEXIS 2925 (2d Cir. 2/11/03) - Can We Extricate Ourselves from the Supreme Court's Quagmire of ERISA  Remedies?" Mark D. Debofsky
 
  3/27/2003     COST OF HEALTH BENEFITS
"Retiree Health Benefits: Savings Needed to Fund Health Care in Retirement" Paul Fronstin and Dallas L. Salisbury
"Inside the Sausage Factory: Improving Estimates of the Effects of Health Insurance Expansion Proposals" Sherry A. Glied, Dahlia Remler and Joshua Graff Zivin
"Small Employers and Health Benefits: Findings from the 2002 Small Employer Health Benefits Survey" Paul Fronstin and Ruth Helman
"Medicare, Retirement Costs, and Labor Supply at Older Ages" Richard W. Johnson
"Exploring the Health-Wealth Nexus" Jonathan Meer, Douglas L. Miller and Harvey S. Rosen
"Subsidies to Employee Health Insurance Premiums and the Health Insurance Market" Jonathan Gruber and Ebonya L. Washington
"The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases" Dana P. Goldman, Arleen Leibowitz and Neeraj Sood  
 
  2/27/2003     HEALTH ISSUES
"Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision" Jonathan Gruber and Jeffrey D. Kubik
"Education Versus Savings as Explanations for Better Health:  Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey" Richard Ippolito
"Disability and Employment: Reevaluating the Evidence in Light of Reporting Errors" Brent Kreider and John V. Pepper
"Portfolio Choice and Health Status" Harvey S. Rosen and Stephen Wu
"Incorporating Psychosocial Variables Into Health Care Policy: A  Behavioral Economic Examination of Medicaid Expansion" Barak D. Richman
"Health Policy Roundtable" Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
"Price and Spouse's Coverage in Employee Demand for Health Insurance" Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig
 
  12/05/2002     HEALTHCARE COVERAGE
"Changes in Insurance Coverage: 1994-2000 and Beyond" John Holahan and Mary Beth Pohl
"Consumer-Driven Health Benefits: A Continuing Evolution?" Jim Jaffe
"Employer Attitudes and Practices Affecting Health Benefits and the Uninsured" Rachel Christensen, Paul Fronstin, Karl Polzer and Ray Werntz
"Job-Based Health Benefits In 2002: Some Important Trends" Jon Gabel, Larry Levitt, Erin Holve, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore and Kelley Dhont
"Working on the Puzzle: Health Care Coverage for Low-Wage Workers" Louise G. Trubek
"Employee Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage" David M. Cutler
"Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?" M. Kate Bundorf and Mark V. Pauly
 
  10/10/2002     DISABILITY BENEFITS
"Disability Income: Voluntary Employment-Based Plans"  Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Disability, the Supreme Court, and Equal Protection: Standing at the Crossroads of Progressive and Retrogressive Logic in Constitutional Classification" Anita Silvers and Michael Stein
"The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment"  David Autor and Mark G. Duggan
"Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy" J. Michael Orszag and Dennis J. Snower
"Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision" Jonathan Gruber and Jeffrey D. Kubik
"The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity" John Bound, Julianne B. Cullen, Austin Nichols and Lucie Schmidt
"Retiring Together or Working Alone: The Impact of Spousal Employment and Disability on Retirement Decisions" Richard W. Johnson and Melissa Favre
 
  8/15/2002     HEALTH BENEFITS
"Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States" Thomas C. Buchmueller, John Dinardo and Robert G. Valletta
"The Role of Tax Subsidies in the Market for Health Insurance" Mark Stabile
"A Temporary Fix? Implications of the Move Away from Comprehensive Health Benefits"  Laura Tollen and Robert M. Crane
"Individual Insurance: How much Financial Protection does it Provide?" Jon Gabel, Kelley Dhont, Heidi Whitmore and Jeremy Pickreign
"HIPPA on Privacy: Its Unintended and Intended Consequences" Richard A. Epstein
"The Family Medical Leave Act: Reinstatement Following Leave: How to Cope from an Employer's Perspective" Mary Jean Geroulo
"The Interaction of Partial Public Insurance Programs and Residual Private Insurance Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Program" Amy Finkelstein"
 
  4/25/2002     HEALTHCARE
"Consumer Health Care Finances and Education: Matters of Values" Lois A. Vitt, Jurg K. Siegenthaler, Linda Siegenthaler, Deanna M. Lyter, and Jamie Kent
"Toward Full Mental Health Parity and Beyond" Daniel P. Gitterman, Roland Sturm and Richard M. Scheffler
"Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature" Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian
"Why Did Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rise?" Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight
"The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S.Health Insurance" Melissa A. Thomasson
"Health Care Costs, Wages, and Aging" Louise Sheiner
"How Demographic Change Will Drive Benefits Design" Marjorie Honig and Irena Dushi
 
  2/14/2002     THE COSTS OF HEALTH
"First, Do No Harm: Designing Tax Incentives for Health Insurance" Leonard E. Burman and Amelia Gruber
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2001 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Financing Long-Term Care in the United States: Who Should Pay for Mom and Dad?" Richard L. Kaplan
"Retiree Health Benefits: Trends and Outlook" Paul Fronstin
"Taxes and Health Insurance" Jonathan Gruber
"Learning and the Value of Information: The Case of Health Plan Report Cards" Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Dennis P. Scanlon
 
  8/09/2001     HEALTH BENEFITS
"Employment-Based Health Benefits: Trends and Outlook"  Paul Fronstin
"Counting the Uninsured: A Comparison of National Surveys" Paul Fronstin
"Managed Care Liability for Breach of Fiduciary Duty after Pegram  v. Herdrich" Thomas Mclean and Edward Richards
"Pegram and Preemption: Patients' Rights and the Case for Doing Nothing" Edward Zelinsky
"Health Benefits and Wages: Minimizing the Total Cost of  Compensation" Nolan Miller
"The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance Than Wage Earners. So What?" Craig Perry and Harvey Rosen
"Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States"  Thomas Buchmueller, John Dinardo and Robert Valletta
 
  4/12/2001     HEALTHCARE
"How Elastic is the Firm's Demand for Health Insurance?" Jonathan Gruber and Michael Lettau
"Medicaid" Jonathan Gruber
"The Economic Costs of the Uninsured" Steve Blakely
"Small Employers and Health Benefits: Findings from the 2000 Small Employer Health Benefits Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2000 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Are Employers Good Agents for Their Employees?" Pamela Peele, Judith Lave, Jeanne Black and John Evans
 


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