Overview
Melissa A. Boyle is a health economist at the College of the Holy Cross. Her research focuses on health insurance and labor market behavior, particularly the effects of government health insurance programs on workers and their households.
Key Contributions / Features
- Boyle (2009): VA health care access and health outcomes — HI access increases utilization and improves health outcomes for veterans
- Boyle and Lahey (2010): first causal estimate of VA health insurance expansion on older male veterans' labor supply — husbands exit employment when they gain VA HI (−3.3% LFP, −8.4% full-time work); Journal of Public Economics
- Boyle and Lahey (2016): spousal labor market effects from government HI — wives of VA-covered husbands increase labor supply, especially low-SES wives (+3 pp employment, +$23–27/week); Journal of Health Economics
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