Research

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• "A point-of-care pilot randomized intervention to connect patients with cancer-induced financial toxicity to telehealth financial counseling" (C. Alacevich, A.M. Abi Nehme, ... , R. Salloum) - Cancer Causes and Control (2024)

Media coverage: UF Health COM - News

• "The effect of immigration on occupational injuries: evidence from administrative data" (C. Alacevich and C. Nicodemo), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2023)

Media Coverage: La Repubblica (Boeri, T & Perotti, R., "Investire sulla Sicurezza")

• "Depression and anxiety during and after episodes of COVID-19 in the community" (C. Alacevich, I. Thalmann, C. Nicodemo, S. de Lusignan, S. Petrou), Scientific Reports (2023)

• "Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 episodes and Health-Related Quality of Life" (C. Alacevich, I. Thalmann, C. Nicodemo, S. de Lusignan, S. Petrou), Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (2023)

• "Pro-environmental interventions and behavioral spillovers: evidence from organic waste sorting in Sweden " (C. Alacevich,  P. Bonev, and M. Söderberg), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2021)

• "Response strategies for promoting gender equality in natural disasters and public health emergencies: a rapid scoping review" (J. Steinert, C. Alacevich, B. Steele, J. Hennegan, A. Yakubovich), BMJ Open (2021) 

• "The presence of care homes and excess deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy" (C. Alacevich, N. Cavalli, O. Giuntella, R. Lagravinese, F. Moscone, and C. Nicodemo), Health Economics (2021)

• "Does violence against civilians depress voter turnout? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina" (C. Alacevich and D. Zejcirovic), Journal of Comparative Economics (2020) 

• "Child Height and Intergenerational Transmission of Health: Evidence from Ethnic Indians in England" (C. Alacevich and A. Tarozzi), Economics and Human Biology (2017)

Media Coverage: VoxEU, The International Growth Center, and Ideas for India

WORKING PAPERS

• The effect of pay-for-performance on quality of care in Medicaid-serving nursing facilities - In progress

• Economic costs and COVID-19 illness symptoms (S. Kim,  C. Alacevich, R. Wittenberg, C. Nicodemo, S. de Lusignan, and S. Petrou) - R&R

• Association of neighborhood-level residential segregation and birth outcomes in Florida: a moving window analysis (with J. Hall & al.)

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Migrant workers, labor market adjustments, and occupational injuries (VisitINPS project), "Dinamiche Migratorie, Adesione di Romania e Bulgaria all’Unione Europea e Infortuni sul Lavoro" (C. Alacevich,  C. Nicodemo, C. Pavese, and G. Peri), XXII Rapporto Annuale – Allegato, Valutare con i dati amministrativi: progetti Visitinps Scholar (2023)

• Behavioral nudges to improve adherence to child nutritional interventions (with O. Shoemaker, J.  Ostrowski, J. Gars)

• Evaluation of an Emergency Department-based over-the-counter analgesic medication starter pack initiative and subsequent 30-day revisits (Sheikh, S., Montague, M., Alacevich, C., Layton, C., Salloum, R., Norse, A., Fishe, J., Webb, K., Hendry, P), Supplement to Annals of Emergency Medicine 2023;82(4S): S120 

• Digital transformation for decarbonization: energy efficiency and the future of work (C. Alacevich and E. Verdolini)  

• Telehealth and Telemedicine utilization for Behavioral Health in Medicaid - Policy Report (with M. Al-Rahamneh,  Xu Hongzhi, E. Shenkman) 

GRANTS AND EXTRAMURAL FUNDING

• Bringing Precision Medicine to the Emergency Department: Implementation of an Enhanced CYP2D6-guided Opioid Prescribing Decision Aid (PI: S. Sheikh) (2023). Role: co-investigator ($50,000) - UF CTSI Precision Public Health pilot grant 

• Leveraging community healthcare workers to improve blood pressure control among food insecure hypertensive adults (PIs: S. Staras and C. Fisher) (2023). Role: co-investigator ($50,000) - UF CTSI Precision Public Health pilot grant 

• Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Performance Payment program for nursing facilities in Medicaid (2022-2025) Role: Lead Researcher, Principal Investigator - Medicaid External Quality Review Organization

•  Immigration and work-related injuries - Employer-employee social security data access grant (with C. Nicodemo, C. Pavese, and G. Peri) (2019) - VisitINPS 

• Policy Design and Evaluation Research in Developing Countries PODER, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics (2014 - 2015) - Marie Curie Initial Training Network - Early Career Fellowship

POLICY REPORTS

• Quarterly Topic Report:  Physical and behavioral health multimorbidity, mental health screening, and healthcare utilization: evidence from Medicaid claims data (2023)

• Evaluation of a performance-based payment program for Medicaid-serving nursing facilities (2022 - present)

  • • Interim Evaluation Report, Year 5 (2023)

    • Final Evaluation Report, Year 5 (2024)

    • Interim Evaluation Report, Year 6 (2024)

• Quarterly Topic Report: Social Vulnerability, Non-Medical Drivers of Health, and Quality of Care in Medicaid (2022)