Overview
Leslie I. Boden is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. His research covers workers' compensation benefit adequacy, lost earnings from workplace injuries, and the epidemiology of occupational injury underreporting. He is a leading scholar on the long-term economic consequences of workplace injuries, including the systematic gap between workers' compensation replacement rates and actual earnings losses.
Key Contributions / Features
- Boden and Galizzi (1999): Documented that workers' compensation replaces well under half of long-term lost earnings in temporary disability and PPD cases — foundational evidence for the "backup insurance" role of DI.
- Boden and Ozonoff (2008): Capture-recapture estimates of nonfatal workplace injury underreporting in official surveillance.
- Boden, Reville, and Biddle (2005): Adequacy of WC cash benefits; permanent partial disability cases.
- Boden and Ruser (2003): Effect of WC medical care provider choice reforms on reported workplace injuries.
- O'Leary et al. (2012): Co-author; matched WCA-SSA study linking workplace injuries to DI receipt.
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