Published Papers (organized topically - see CV for reverse chronological)

Medicaid During the Pandemic Era

• Laura Dague and Benjamin Ukert. 2023. "Pandemic-Era Changes to Medicaid  Enrollment and Funding:  Implications for Future Policy and Research.". Forthcoming, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Previous version available as NBER Working Paper #31342. (ungated)

• Alyssa Shell Tilhou, Laura Dague, Brendan Saloner, Daniel Beemon, and Marguerite Burns. 2022. "Trends in Engagement With Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Among Medicaid Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic," JAMA Health Forum. 3(3):e214752. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.0093. 

• Laura Dague, Nicolás Badaracco, Thomas DeLeire, Justin Sydnor, Alyssa Shell Tilhou, and Donna Friedsam. 2022. "Trends in Medicaid Enrollment and Disenrollment During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Wisconsin." JAMA Health Forum. 2022;3(2):e214752. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.4752. Featured on JAMA Health Forum Editor's Summary Podcast

• Rebecca Myerson and Laura Dague. 2023. "Identifying Scalable Strategies To Maintain Coverage As Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Ends." Health Affairs Forefront. May 5, 2023. DOI: 10.1377/forefront.20230504.122888.  [Commentary - not peer reviewed]

• Alyssa Shell Tilhou, Brendan Saloner, Thomas DeLeire, Susmita Chakraborty, and Laura Dague. 2023. "Health and health care access for essential, non-essential, and non-workers during the COVID-19 pandemic." Forthcoming, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Employment and Willingness to Pay in Medicaid

• Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, and Lindsey Leininger, 2017. "The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply,"  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(2): 124–154. A previous version of this paper was circulated as NBER Working Paper #20111. 

• Laura Dague. 2014. "The Effect of Medicaid Premiums on Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Approach," Journal of Health Economics, 37: 1–12. Winner of 21st Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award

• Brendan Saloner, Laura Dague, Donna Friedsam, Kristen Voskuil, Natalia Serna Borrero, and Marguerite Burns. 2019. "Access to Care Among Individuals Who Experienced Medicaid Lockouts After Premium Nonpayment," JAMA Network Open. 2019;2(11):e1914561. 

Medicaid Coverage Expansions & Enrollment Policy

• Laura Dague and Rebecca Myerson. 2024. "Loss of Medicaid Coverage During the Renewal Process." JAMA Health Forum. 2024;5(5):e240839. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0839

• Laura Dague, Donna Friedsam, and Marguerite Burns. 2022. "The Line Between Medicaid and Marketplace: Coverage Effects from Wisconsin's Partial Expansion."  Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 47(3): 293-318.

• Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, Kristen Voskuil, Sarah Meier, Lindsey Leininger and Donna Friedsam. 2014. "What Fraction of Medicaid Enrollees Have Access to Private Insurance?: Estimates From Administrative Data," INQUIRY January-December 2014 51: 0046958014544020. A previous version of this paper was circulated as: "Estimating Crowd-out in Public Insurance Expansions Using Administrative Data," NBER Working Paper No. 17009

• Marguerite Burns, Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, Mary Dorsch, Donna Friedsam, Lindsey Leininger, Gaston Palmucci, John Schmelzer, and Kristen Voskuil. 2014. `The Effects of Expanding Public Insurance to Rural Low-Income Childless Adults,' Health Services Research, 49: 2173–2187. 

• Thomas DeLeire, Laura Dague, Lindsey Leininger, Kristen Voskuil, and Donna Friedsam. 2013. “Wisconsin Experience Indicates That Expanding Public Insurance To Low-Income Childless Adults Has Health Care Impacts,” Health Affairs. 32(6): 1037-1045.

• Thomas DeLeire, Lindsey Leininger, Laura Dague, Shannon Mok, and Donna Friedsam. 2012. "Wisconsin’s Experience with Medicaid Auto-Enrollment: Lessons for Other States," Medicare & Medicaid Research Review, 2(2): E1-E20.

• Lindsey Leininger, Donna Friedsam, Laura Dague, Shannon Mok, Emma Hynes, Alison Bergman, Milda Aksamitauskas, Thomas Oliver, and Thomas DeLeire. 2011. "Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Reform: Impact on Low-Income Families’ Enrollment and Retention in Public Coverage," Health Services Research, 46: 336-347.

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid Expansion

• Marguerite Burns and Laura Dague. 2017. "The Effect of Expanding Medicaid on Supplemental Security Income Program Participation," Journal of Public Economics, 140: 20-34.

• Aparna Soni, Marguerite Burns, Laura Dague, & Kosali Simon. 2017. "Medicaid Expansion And State Trends In Supplemental Security Income Program Participation," Health Affairs, 36(8), 1485-1488.

• Marguerite Burns, Laura Dague, Jae Kennedy, and Elizabeth Wood. 2022. "The Effects of Medicaid Expansions from 2001-2015 on Supplemental Security Income Program Participation among Childless Adults." Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 10442073221094807.  

Medicaid and Incarceration

• Marguerite Burns, Steven Cook, Lars M. Brown, Laura Dague, Steve Tyska, Karla Hernandez Romero, Cici McNamara, and Ryan P. Westergaard. 2022. "Association Between Assistance With Medicaid Enrollment and Use of Health Care After Incarceration Among Adults With a History of Substance Use" JAMA Network Open. 5(1):e2142688. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.42688.  

• Marguerite Burns and Laura Dague. 2023. "In-Kind Welfare Benefits and Reincarceration Risk: Evidence from Medicaid." NBER Working Paper #31394. Selected as Best of Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, 2021. 

Paid Leave

• Priyanka Anand, Ghaida Alsadah, Laura Dague, Kathryn L. Wagner, and Janusz Wojtusiak. 2022.  "Access to Paid Leave: New Evidence from Machine Learning Classification Models." (Active working paper presented at APPAM 2022, SEA 2022, AEA 2023; draft coming soon).

• Priyanka Anand, Laura Dague, and Kathryn Wagner. 2022. "The Role of Paid Family Leave in Labor Supply Responses to a Spouse’s Disability or Health Shock,"  Journal of Health Economics. 83: 102621.  A previous version of this paper was circulated as NBER Working Paper No. 28808.

Mental Health, Pharmaceuticals, and Substance Use

• Kevin Look, Nam Hyo Kim, Laura Dague, and Aaron Winn. 2022. "Financial burden and medication adherence among near-poor older adults in a pharmaceutical assistance program." Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 18(3): 2517-2523.

• Kevin Look, Nam Hyo Kim, Laura Dague, and Aaron Winn. 2020. "Trends in a State Pharmaceutical Assistance Program for Low-income Older Adults in Wisconsin." INNOVATIONS in pharmacy 11, no. 4: 9-9. 

• Marguerite E. Burns, Laura Dague, Brendan Saloner, Kristen Voskuil, Nam Hyo Kim, Natalia Serna Borrero, and Kevin Look. 2020. "Implementing Parity for Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment in Medicaid," Health Services Research 55, no. 4: 604-614.

• Tilhou, Alyssa Shell, Marguerite Burns, Preeti Chachlani, Ying Chen, and Laura Dague. "How Does Telehealth Expansion Change Access to Healthcare for Patients With Different Types of Substance Use Disorders?." Substance Use & Addiction Journal (2024): 29767342241236028. 

Methods and Translation

• Laura Dague, Joanna N Lahey. 2019. "Causal Inference Methods: Lessons from Applied Microeconomics,"  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory  29(3): 511-529.  Link to supplementary materials (zip file). 

Data

Data from Burns and Dague (2017) are available, with parental coverage added, and updated through 2017 at https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/200669. Please cite the data as: 

Burns ME, Dague L, and Kasper, M.  Medicaid Waiver Dataset: 1996 – 2017. Version 2.0. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018.  

Work in Progress

"Does Medicaid Improve Mental Health? An Examination of Treatment Use and Financial Security" with Marguerite Burns 

"Transitional Medical Assistance: Does `Welfare to Work' Work in Medicaid?" 

Retired Working Papers

Gaston Palmucci and Laura Dague. January 2015. "The Welfare Effects of Banning Risk-Rated Pricing in Health Insurance Markets: Evidence From Chile."  

Selected Policy Work

Laura Dague and Constance Hughes. 2020. "Medicaid Expansion's Impact in Texas," The Takeaway, Texas A&M University Mosbacher Institute. Available at: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/189350 

Laura Dague and Constance Hughes. 2020. "County-Level Projections of Medicaid Expansion's Impact in Texas," Policy Report, Episcopal Health Foundation. Available at: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/196866 

Laura Dague and Ben Ukert. 2022. "What Happens to Texans’ Insurance Coverage When Medicaid and Marketplace Pandemic-Era Policies End?" Policy Report, Episcopal Health Foundation.

Laura Dague and Ben Ukert. 2022. "Medicaid & the Public Health Emergency: Implications for Texas" The Takeaway, Texas A&M University Mosbacher Institute. Available at: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/197001 

Laura Dague and Ben Ukert. 2023. "Marketplace Health Insurance & the Public Health Emergency: Implications for Texas
The Takeaway, Texas A&M University Mosbacher Institute. Available at: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/197440