Faculty & Research Published Research Research Economics Social Equity (-) Health Policy Facet Area of Focus - Research Christopher J. Ruhm Richard Bonnie Craig Volden John Pepper Sebastian Tello Trillo William Shobe (-) Adam Leive Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Health Policy Economics Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts Authors: Adam Leive To lower health care costs, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) offer tax incentives encouraging people to trade off current consumption against future consumption. This paper tests whether consumers use HSAs as self-insurance over the life cycle. Learn more Published Research Health Policy Social Equity Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated? Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Adam Leive Two Batten professors examine whether the least educated population groups experienced the worst mortality trends at the beginning of the 21st century by measuring changes in mortality across education quartiles. Learn more Published Research Economics Health Policy A Cautionary Tale in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Perils and Pitfalls of Observational Data Analysis Authors: Adam Leive, Armando Franco, Dana Goldman, Daniel McFadden Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U.S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health. Learn more
Published Research Health Policy Economics Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts Authors: Adam Leive To lower health care costs, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) offer tax incentives encouraging people to trade off current consumption against future consumption. This paper tests whether consumers use HSAs as self-insurance over the life cycle. Learn more
Published Research Health Policy Social Equity Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated? Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Adam Leive Two Batten professors examine whether the least educated population groups experienced the worst mortality trends at the beginning of the 21st century by measuring changes in mortality across education quartiles. Learn more
Published Research Economics Health Policy A Cautionary Tale in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Perils and Pitfalls of Observational Data Analysis Authors: Adam Leive, Armando Franco, Dana Goldman, Daniel McFadden Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U.S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health. Learn more