Kosali Ilayperuma Simon is the Herman B Wells Endowed Professor in

health economics Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics is important in determining how to improv ...

at School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at

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which she joined in 2010.

Academic career

She graduated with a bachelor's in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

and German Literature from

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

in 1994. After a year studying in Europe as a Watson Fellow, she obtained a

doctorate degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

in economics from

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

in 1999. She is a research associate at the

NBER The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

, affiliated with the Children, Health Care, and Health Economics programs, and an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics. She is consulted by the press as an expert in the field of health care economics. Recently, some of her work has focused on the impact of the

Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and colloquially known as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by Pres ...

on the labour market regarding work hours; she finds very minimal effect on part-time work as a result of the institution of the law.

Selected works

* Gruber, J. and Simon, K., 2008
Crowd-out 10 years later: Have recent public insurance expansions crowded out private health insurance?
''

Journal of Health Economics The ''Journal of Health Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles about health economics and related fields concerning human health care and medicine. The journal is published six times annually by Elsevier. The ed ...

'', 27(2), pp. 201–217. doi
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.11.004
* Akosa Antwi, Y., Moriya, A.S. and Simon, K., 2013
Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults: Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act's Dependent-Coverage Mandate
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(4), pp. 1–28. JSTOR
43189352
doi
10.1257/pol.5.4.1
* Reed, Andrew E., Joseph A. Mikels, and Kosali I. Simon. "Older adults prefer less choice than young adults." Psychology and aging 23, no. 3 (2008): 671. * Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma. "Adverse selection in health insurance markets? Evidence from state small-group health insurance reforms." Journal of Public Economics 89, no. 9-10 (2005): 1865-1877.

References

External links

The effects of the Affordable Care Act on older workers’ labor market outcomes

Financial Literacy Seminar with Kosali Simon: Effects of the Affordable Health Care Act Young Adult Provision
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