Overview
Health economist (University of Chicago, where she has served as Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy and Provost) known for the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment and for research on how health insurance and Medicaid affect health, financial security, and health-care utilization.
Key Contributions / Features
- Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: co-led (with Amy Finkelstein) the randomized study of Medicaid that found large gains in financial protection and mental health but no statistically significant effect on measured physical-health outcomes at two years — a pivotal input to the debate over Medicaid's mortality effects. See Medicaid and Mortality.
- Broader work on the value of health insurance, cost-sharing, and the moral hazard / risk-protection trade-off in public coverage.
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