Overview
John Gettens is a researcher at the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His research focuses on disability policy, geographic variation in disability program participation, and employment of people with disabilities. He is the lead author of Gettens, Lei, and Henry (2018), which introduced variance decomposition methods to the study of geographic variation in DI/SSI participation.
Key Contributions / Features
- Variance decomposition of DI/SSI participation: First application of variance decomposition to explain geographic variation in DI/SSI participation, factoring total participation into disability prevalence and program participation among disabled persons. See Geographic Variation in Disability Insurance.
- CAPUMA geography: Developed county-aligned Public Use Microdata Areas (CAPUMAs) as a substate geographic unit enabling joint analysis of ACS disability prevalence data and SSA county-level participation counts.
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