PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

 

Refereed Journal Articles

Jacob Goldin, Ithai Z. Lurie and Janet McCubbin. “Health Insurance and Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Taxpayer Outreach” Quarterly Journal of Economics (Editor’s choice). 136(1):1-49.  (Online Appendix)

Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie, Kathleen J. Mullen and Kosali Simon . “Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits.”  Journal of Health Economics. Forthcoming

Heim, Bradley T., Gillian Hunter, Adam Isen, Ithai Z. Lurie, and Shanthi P. Ramnath. “Income Response to the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from the Premium Tax Credit.” Journal of Health Economics. Forthcoming
 

Ithai Z. Lurie and James Pearce. “Health Insurance Coverage in Tax and Survey Data”. American Journal of Health Economics. Forthcoming

Brown, David, Amanda E. Kowalski, and Ithai Z Lurie (2020) “Long-Term Impacts of Childhood Medicaid Expansions on Outcomes in Adulthood” The Review of Economic Studies 87 (2), 792-82.  
 
Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie and Daniel W. Sacks. ”Does the Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Tax Returns.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming

Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie, and Kosali Simon (2018).  “The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Childbearing: Evidence from Tax Data.” Demography. 55(4):1233-1243

Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie, and Kosali Simon (2018).  “Did the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision Affect Labor Market Outcomes? Analysis Using Tax Data.” Industrial Labor Relationship. 71(5) (452-70)

Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie, and James Pearce (2017). “What Drove the Decline in Taxpaying? The Roles of Policy and Population”. National Tax Journal. 70(3): 586-620

Young, Cristobal, Charles Varner, Ithai Z. Lurie and Richard Prisinzano (2016) “Millionaire Migration and the Demography of the Elite: Implications for American Tax Policy”. American Sociological Review.  81(3): 421- 446

Helmchen, Lorens A., David W Brown, Ithai Z. Lurie and Anthony T. Lo Sasso. (2015). “Health Savings Accounts: Growth Concentrated Among High-Income Households and Large Employers.” Health Affairs. 34(9): 1594-1598.
 
Heim, Bradley T., Gillian Hunter, Ithai Z. Lurie, and Shanthi P. Ramnath. (2015). “The ACA and Premium Affordability: Evidence from the Self- Employed.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. 40(5):1061-1085
 
Heim, Bradley T. and Ithai Z. Lurie. (2015). “Does Health Reform Lead to Increased Job Mobility? Evidence from Massachusetts.” American Journal of Health Economics. 1(3):374-398
 
Heim, Bradley T. and Ithai Z. Lurie. (2014). “Does health reform affect self- employment? Evidence from Massachusetts.” Small Business Economics. 43(4):917-930.
 
Heim, Bradley T. and Ithai Z. Lurie. (2014). “Taxes, Income, and Retirement Savings: Differences by Permanent and Transitory Income.” Contemporary Economic Policy. 32(3):592-617.
 
Heim, Bradley T. and Ithai Z. Lurie. (2014) “Did Reform of the Non-Group Health Insurance Market Affect the Decision to be Self-Employed? Evidence from State Reforms in the 1990’s.” Health Economics. 23(7):841-860.
 
Heim, Bradley T. and Ithai Z. Lurie, “The Impact of Insurance Subsidies on Self- Employment: Do State Individual Health Insurance Regulations Matter?” Contemporary Economic Policy, January 2013; 31(1): 94-109.
 
Heim, Bradley, Ithai Z. Lurie and Shanthi Ramnath, “Immigrant-Native Differences in Employer Provided Retirement Plan Participation”. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, July 2012; 11(3):365-388.
 
Heim, Bradley, and Ithai Z. Lurie, “The Effect of Recent Tax Changes on Tax-Deferred Retirement Saving Behavior”. National Tax Journal, June 2012; 65: 283-311
 
Bradley T. Heim and Ithai Z. Lurie, “The Effect of Self-Employed Health Insurance Subsidies on Self-Employment”. Journal of Public Economics 2010; 94(11-12):995- 1007.
 
Ithai Z. Lurie, and Alexandra Minicozzi, “Understanding the Increasingly Popular Itemized Deduction for Medical Expenses”. Medical Care Research and Review December 2010; 67(6):707-721.
 
Heim, Bradley, and Ithai Z. Lurie, “Do Increased Premium Subsidies Affect How Much Health Insurance Is Purchased? Evidence from the Self-Employed”. Journal of Health Economics 2009; 28: 1197-1210.
 
Lurie, Ithai Z.  “The Differential Effect of the SCHIP Expansions by Children's Age” Health Services Research. 44(5):1504-1520.
 
Lurie, Ithai Z., Larry M. Manheim, Dorothy D. Dunlop, “Differences in Medical Care Expenditures for Adults with Depression compared with Adults with Major Chronic Conditions” Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 2009; 12(2): 87-95.
 
Lo Sasso, Anthony T., and Ithai Z. Lurie, “Community Rating and the Market for Private Non-Group Health Insurance,” Journal of Public Economics 2009 93(1-2):1394- 1415.
 
Lurie, Ithai Z., Dorothy D. Dunlop, Larry M. Manheim, “Trends in out-of-pocket medical care expenditures for medicare-age adults with arthritis between 1998 and 2004,” Arthritis & Rheumatism 2008; 58(8):2236-2240.
 
Lurie, Ithai Z., “Welfare reform and the decline in the health-insurance coverage of children of non-permanent residents,” Journal of Health Economics 2008;27(3): 786-793
 
Buchmueller, Thomas C., Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Ithai Z. Lurie, and Sarah Senesky, “Immigrants and Employer-Provided Health Insurance,” Health Services Research 2007; 42(1):286-310.
 
Lindrooth, Richard C., Anthony T. Lo Sasso, and Ithai Z. Lurie, “The Effect of Distance to Providers on Mental Health Treatment Initiation,” Health Economics 2006;15(10): 1133-1141.
 
Lo Sasso, Anthony T., Ithai Z. Lurie, Jhee Un Lee, and Richard C. Lindrooth, “The Effects of Expanded Mental Health Benefits on Treatment Costs,” The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 2006;9(1): 25-33.
 
Lo Sasso, Anthony T., Richard C. Lindrooth, Ithai Z. Lurie, and John S. Lyons, “Expanded Mental Health Benefits and Outpatient Depression Treatment Intensity,” Medical Care 2006;44(4):366-372.

Lindrooth, Richard C., Anthony T. Lo Sasso, and Ithai Z. Lurie, “The Effects of Expanded Mental Health Benefits on Treatment Initiation and Specialist Utilization,” Health Services Research 2005;40: 1092-1107.
 

Joe Feinglass, Hagay H. Amir, Patricia A. Taylor, Ithai Z. Lurie, Larry M. Manheim, Rowland W. Chang, “How safe is primary knee replacement surgery? Perioperative complication rates in Northern Illinois, 1993-1999,” Arthritis & Rheumatism, February 15, 2004;51(1):110-116.

Articles in Conference Volumes and Book Chapters

 Lurie, Ithai Z. and Janet McCubbin (2016). “What can Tax Data Tell Us About the Uninsured? Evidence from 2014”. National Tax Journal. 69(4):883-904 

Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie, and Kosali Simon. (2015). “The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Tax Data.” Tax Policy and the Economy. Vol 29:133-157

Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie, and James Pearce. (2014). “Who Pays Taxes? A Dynamic Perspective.” National Tax Journal. 67:755-778. 

Lurie, Ithai Z. and Shanthi Ramnath, “Long-Run Changes in the 401(k) Type Plans Tax-Expenditure”. National Tax Journal, December 2011; 64: 1025- 1038.

 Robert Gillette, Gillian Hunter, Ithai Z. Lurie, Jonathan Siegel and Gerald Silverstein; “The Impact of Repealing the Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Insurance”.  National Tax Journal , December 2010; 63: 695-707 

Lo Sasso, Anthony T., Richard C. Lindrooth, and Ithai Z. Lurie, “The Role of Gender in a Company-Wide Effort to Expand and Destigmatize Mental Health Treatment,” in Dave E. Marcotte and Virginia Wilcox-Gök eds., Research in Human Capital and Development Volume 15: The Economics of Gender and Mental Illness, Elsevier Science Press, 2004.

 

  

WORKING PAPERS and WORK IN PROGRESS

 Gelber, Alexander, Damon Jones, Ithai Z. Lurie, Daniel W. Sacks. (2020). “Misperceptions of the Social Security Earnings       Test and the Actuarial Adjustment: Implications for LFP and Earnings”

Lurie, Ithai Z. and James Pearce (2019). “Health Insurance Coverage from Administrative Tax Data”. Office of Tax Analysis Working paper 117.   

Ithai Z. Lurie, Nicole Maestas, Corbin Miller and Daniel Prinz (2019). “The Distribution of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from New Administrative Tax Data”

Ithai Z. Lurie and Corbin Miller (2019). ”Employers and Disability Insurance: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns

John N. Friedman, Maxwell Kellogg, Ithai Z. Lurie and Magne Mogstad. “Explaining Geographic Differences in Young Disability Insurance Rates”

Heim, Bradley T., Ithai Z. Lurie, and Kosali Simon. “Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Retirement: Evidence from Tax and Survey Data.”

Isen, Adam,  Ithai Z. Lurie, Shanthi P. Ramnath and Daniel W. Sacks. “Coverage responses to the Premium Tax Credit.”

Heim, Bradley T., Gillian Hunter, Ithai Z. Lurie, and Shanthi P. Ramnath. “Waves and Cliffs: Marginal Earnings Incentives in the Affordable Care Act.”

Heim, Bradley, and Ithai Z. Lurie, “Single Mothers' EITC eceipt Dynamics”. 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2546072

Lurie, Ithai Z. and James Pearce, “Are Capital Gains Realization Dynamics in the Great Recession Different than The early 2000’s Recession? A Markov Chain Analysis Using Tax Data”.

Lurie, Ithai Z. and James Pearce, “The Effects of ACA on Income Eligibility for Medicaid and Subsidized Private Insurance Coverage: Income Definitions and Thresholds across CPS and Administrative Data”.  https://appam.confex.com/data/extendedabstract/appam/2012/Paper_3086_extendedabstract_187_0.pdf