Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications 


Increased Schooling Reduces Hospitalization Later in Life: New Evidence with Optimal Instruments from the United States.

Dahai Yue, Ninez A. Ponce, Susan L. Ettner, Jack Needleman, Adriana Lleras-Muney. 

[Accepted PDF version in October 2023] American Journal of Health Economics. Forthcoming.


Easy to use and validated predictive models to identify beneficiaries experiencing homelessness in Medicaid administrative data 

Nadereh Pourat, Dahai Yue, Xiao Chen, Weihao Zhou, Brenna O’Masta.

[Published version]. Health Services Research. (58): 882–893. August 2023.


Selective mortality and nonresponse in the Health and Retirement Study: implications for health services and policy research

Dahai Yue, Susan L. Ettner, Jack Needleman, Ninez A. Ponce

[Published version]. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. 2022

     

The association between educational attainment and longevity using individual-level data from the 1940 census 

Adriana Lleras-Muney, Joseph Price, Dahai Yue. 

[NBER working paper in July 2020], National Bureau of Economic Research. 

[Published version] Journal of Health Economics, Vol 84. July 2022.


Differential associations of homelessness with emergency department visits and hospitalizations by race, ethnicity, and gender 

Dahai Yue, Nadereh Pourat, Elsie Essien, Xiao Chen, Weihao Zhou, Brenna O’Masta. 

[PDF] Health Services Research.1-14. May 2022.

(HSR Special Issue in Health Care Equity)


Reductions in NO2 and emergency room visits associated with California's goods movement policies: a quasi-experimental study

Ying-Ying Meng, Dahai Yue, John Molitor, Xiao Chen, Jason G. Su, Michael Jerrett.

[Published version] Environmental Research. (213): 113600. October 2022. 


The association between COVID-19 mortality and county-level partisan divide in the United States

Neil Sehgal, Dahai Yue, Elle Pope, Ren Hao Wang,  Dylan H. Roby.

[Published version] Health Affairs, 41(6): 853-863. June 2022.


Reductions in under-five mortality and public health improvements of the China Healthy Cities (Counties) initiative: a nationwide quasi-experimental study 

Dahai Yue, Xiao Chen, Yuhui Zhu, James Macinko, Qingyue Meng. 

[PDF] BMJ Global Health, 7(3): e007154. January 2022. 


Relationships between enabling services use and access to care among adults with cardiometabolic risk factors: findings from the 2014 National Health Center Patient Survey 

G. Sofia Martinez, Kellee White, Dahai Yue, Luisa Franzini, Craig S. Fryer. Ninet Sinaii, Dylan H. Roby.

[PDF] BMC Health Services Research, 22(1):334. 2022.

 

Housing insecurity among Latinxs

Melissa Chinchilla, Dahai Yue,  Ninez A. Ponce. 

[PDF] Journal of Immigration and Minority Health, 24(3):656-665. 2022.


Estimating a model for mental healthcare utilization using subjective unmet need and psychological distress measures 

Ebony Toussaint, Dylan Roby, Dahai Yue, Luisa Franzini, Neil Sehgal.

[Published version] The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. May 2022. 


The impact of China's Clean Air Act on cognitive function in older adults: a population-based, quasi-experimental study 

Yao Yao, Xiaozhen Lv, Chengxuan Qiu, Jiajianghui Li, Xiao Wu, Hao Zhang, Dahai Yue, Keyang Liu, Ehab Salah Eshak, Thiess Lorenz, Kaarin J. Anstey, Gill Livingston, Tao Xue, Junfeng Zhang, Huali Wang, Yi Zeng. 

[PDF] The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 3(2): e98-e108. 2022. 


The relationship between educational attainment and hospitalizations among middle-aged and older adults in the United States 

Dahai Yue, Ninez A. Ponce, Jack Needleman, Susan L. Ettner.

[PDF] SSM-Population Health, 15, 100918. 2021.

 

Booms and busts in housing market and health outcomes for older Americans 

Dahai Yue, Ninez A. Ponce.

[PDF] Innovation in Aging, 5(2), igab012. 2021.

 

A stepped wedge cluster randomized control trial to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of optimized initiatives in improving quality of care for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

Shuduo Zhou, Xuejie Dong, Fangjing Liu, Yan Zhang, Dahai Yue, Qiang Zhou, Yinzi Jin, Zhi-Jie Zheng. 

[PDF] Implementation Science, 16(1), 38. 2021.


Failure to recognize low non-treponemal titer syphilis infections in pregnancy may lead to widespread under-treatment

Emma Jane Swayze, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Eddy R Segura, Eduardo Saad, Dahai Yue, Warren Scott Comulada,  Mary Catherine Cambou.

[PDF] International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 104, 27-33.

 

Coverage, affordability, and care for low-income people with diabetes: 4 years after the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansions

Dahai Yue, Yuhui Zhu, Petra W. Rasmussen, James Godwin, Ninez A. Ponce. (2020). 

[PDF] Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(7), 2222-2224. 2020.

 

Predicting differential improvements in annual pollutant concentrations and exposures for regulatory policy assessment

Jason G. Su, Ying-Ying Meng, Xiao Chen, John Molitor, Dahai Yue, Michael Jerrett. 

[PDF] Environment International, 143, 105942. 2020.


Towards universal health coverage: achievements and challenges of 10 years of healthcare reform in China

Wenjuan Tao, Zhi Zeng, Haixia Dang, Peiyi Li, Linh Chuong, Dahai Yue, Jin Wen, Rui Zhao, Weiming, Gerald F. Kominski. 

[PDF] BMJ Global Health, 5(3), e002087. 2020.

 

Towards universal health coverage: lessons from 10 years of healthcare reform in China

Wenjuan Tao, Zhi Zeng, Haixia Dang, Bingqing Lu, Linh Chuong, Dahai Yue, Jin Wen, Rui Zhao, Weiming, Gerald F. Kominski. 

[PDF] BMJ Global Health, 5(3), e002086. 2020. 

 

Residential proximity to major roadways and prevalent hypertension among older women and men: results from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey

Yao Yao, Kaixi Cao, Kehan Zhang, Tinglong Zhu, Dahai Yue, D, Hao Zhang, Jim Zhang, Xurui Jin, Yi Zeng.

[Published version] Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 7, 587222. 2020.


Enabling services improve access to care, preventive services, and satisfaction among health center patients

Dahai Yue, Nadereh Pourat, Xiao Chen, Connie Lu, Weihao Zhou, Marlon Daniel, Hank Hoang, Alex Sripipatana, Ninez A. Ponce. 

[PDF] Health Affairs, 38(9), 1468-1474.2019.

 

The impact of the health care workforce on under-five mortality in rural China

Siyuan Liang, James Macinko, Dahai Yue, Qingyue Meng.

[PDF] Human Resources for Health, 17(1), 21. 2019.

 

Racial/ethnic differential effects of Medicaid expansion on health care access

Dahai Yue, Petra W. Rasmussen, Ninez A. Ponce.

[Published version] Health Services Research, 53(5), 3640-3656. 2018

One of the top 20 downloaded articles in Health Services Research, 2017-2018.

 

Impact of the China Healthy Cities initiative on urban environment

Dahai Yue, Shiman Ruan,Jin Xu, Weiming Zhu, Luyu Zhang, Gang Cheng, Qingyue Meng.

[Published version] Journal of Urban Health, 94(2), 149-157. 2017.

 

Reproductive factors are associated with oesophageal cancer risk: results from a meta-analysis of observational studies

Yuhui Zhu, Dahai Yue, Beibei Yuan, Lianhua Zhu, Ming Lu

[Published version] European Journal of Cancer Prevention, 26(1), 1-9. 2017.

 

Determinants of willingness to pay for self-paid vaccines in China

Zhiyuan Hou, Jie Chang, Dahai Yue, Hai Fang, Qingyue Meng, Yuting Zhang.

[Published version] Vaccine, 32(35), 4471-4477. 2014

 

Spatiotemporal analysis of infant measles using population attributable risk in Shandong province, 1999-2008

Yuhui Zhu, Qing Xu, Hualiang Lin, Dahai Yue, Lizhi Song, Changyin Wang, Huaiyu Tian, Xiaoxu Wu, Aiqiang Xu, Xiujun Li.

[PDF] PLoS One, 8(11), e79334. 2013.