Overview
Joanna N. Lahey is a labor economist at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, and a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) research associate. Her research focuses on health insurance, labor supply, retirement, and the economics of aging.
Key Contributions / Features
- Boyle and Lahey (2010): causal evidence that VA HI expansion induced older male veterans to exit employment — reversed employment-lock channel where gaining non-employer HI enables retirement; Journal of Public Economics
- Boyle and Lahey (2016): spousal labor supply increases when husbands gain VA health insurance — wives enter or intensify employment to obtain own ESI after husband's exit strips the household of employer-sponsored coverage; Journal of Health Economics
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