Selected Research
Health-Inclusive Poverty Measure
Sanders Korenman and Dahlia Remler. 2016. “Including Health Insurance in Poverty Measurement: The impact of Massachusetts Health Reform on Poverty.” Journal of Health Economics 50 (December): 27-35.
Dahlia Remler, Sanders Korenman, and Rosemary T Hyson. 2017. “Estimating The Effects of Health Insurance and Other Social Programs on Poverty Under the Affordable Care Act.” Health Affairs 36, no. 10 (2017): 1828-1837. [free access]
This handbook chapter provides an overview of and context for the HIPM.
Dahlia Remler and Sanders Korenman. 2022. “Health Insurance and Poverty Measurement” in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation. Edited by Jacques Silber. (Elsevier).
Dahlia K. Remler, Sanders Korenman. 2023. “On the Importance and Intrinsic Difficulties of Incorporating Health Insurance Benefits in Absolute Poverty Trends.” Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law 48 (5): 761–798.
Sanders Korenman, Dahlia Remler, and Rosemary Hyson. 2019. “Medicaid Expansions and Poverty: Comparing Supplemental and Health-Inclusive Poverty Measures“. Social Service Review 93(3): 429-483.
A video from the National Academies panel:
My co-author, Sanders Korenman, explains our measure, the Health-Inclusive Poverty Measure, at 1:03:30. The whole video describes the proposed Principal Poverty Measure.
I speak at 1:03:30
A short video Baruch put out after our Health Affairs paper on the Affordable Care Act and health-inclusive poverty.
Causal research methods
Dahlia K. Remler and Gregg G. Van Ryzin. 2024. “Control, Exogeneity, and Directness: Understanding and Designing Quasi- and Natural Experiments” American Journal of Evaluation, 46(1): 62-89. [Open access]
Ted Joyce, Dahlia Remler, David A Jaeger, Onur Altindag, Stephen D O’Connell, and Sean Crockett. 2017. “On Measuring and Reducing Selection Bias with a Quasi-Doubly Randomized Preference Trial.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 36(2): 438-459.
This talk to the SPHR Natural Experiment Network provides a good introduction to the framework for natural and quasi-experiments Gregg Van Ryzin and I developed.
Health Economics
Sherry A. Glied, Dahlia K. Remler, and Mikaela Springsteen. 2022. Health Savings Accounts No Longer Promote Consumer Cost Consciousness. Health Affairs. 41(6), 814-820.
Dahlia Remler, Don Waisanen, and Andrea Gabor. 2013. “Academic Journalism: A Modest Proposal.” Journalism Studies 15(4): 357-373.
Dahlia Remler and Jessica Greene. “Cost-sharing: A Blunt Instrument.” Annual Review of Public Health 30, (2009): 293-311.
Gregory Colman and Dahlia Remler. “Vertical Equity Consequences of Very High Cigarette Taxes: If the Poor are the Ones Smoking, How Can Cigarette Taxes be Progressive?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 27, no. 2 (2008): 376-400.
Dahlia Remler. 2004. “Poor Smokers, Poor Quitters and Cigarette Tax Regressivity.” The American Journal of Public Health 94(2): 225-229.