Kenneth Lim, Demetri Goutos, Monica Aswani, Joseph Benitez, Kathryn Thompson, and Paul Shafer (2025). Racial, Ethnic, and Rural Disparities in Access to Medicaid Offices. Health Affairs Scholar, qxaf072, https://doi.org/10.1093/haschl/qxaf072

Joseph Benitez with Kevin Callison and Kathleen Adams (2024). The Role of Medicaid Eligibility and Payment Generosity on Adverse Health Effects from the Great Recession. Health Economics. 33(7), 1426–1453. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4823

Joseph Benitez with Salama S. Freed, Huang Huang, and Tolulope Oladele (2024).  Did Medicaid Reimbursements shape the effects of Medicaid Expansion on Access to Health Care among the Low-Income Population? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 39, 1360-1368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08558-w

Joseph Benitez with Huang Huang^ and Portia L. Johnson. The Relationship Between COVID-19 Pandemic-Linked Job Losses and Health Care Access and Household Financial Health in Medicaid Expansion and Non-expansion States (2023). Medical Care;61(12): 872-881. October 5, 2023. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001933

Paul Shafer, Kenneth Lim, Demetri Goutos, Nicole Huberfeld, Joseph Benitez, Kevin Hsu, Julia Raifman (2023). Making pandemic era Medicaid continuous coverage automatic for future crises (2023).  Health Services Research; 58(6): 1157-1160. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.14225

Joseph Benitez with Lisa Dubay (2022). COVID-19-Related Unemployment and Health Insurance Coverage in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States. Health Services Research, 56: 20-20. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.14029 

Joseph Benitez (2022). Comparison of Unemployment-Related Health Insurance Coverage Changes in Medicaid Expansion vs Nonexpansion States during the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Health Forum. 2022;3(6):e221632. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.1632

Victoria Perez, Joseph Benitez, and Justin Ross (2021). The Role of Medicaid in Mitigating Pandemic-Related Fiscal Strain on Local Governments. Public Budgeting & Finance 41: 74– 97. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12298  

Joseph Benitez with Victoria Perez and Jie Chen (2021). Did Medicaid Slow Declines in Access to Care during the Great Recession? Health Services Research. August 2021; 56: 655-667. Published online March 3, 2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6773.13645 

Joseph Benitez with Charles Courtemanche and Aaron Yelowitz (2020). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large Cities. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy 3(4): 243–261. Available from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41996-020-00068-9 

Joseph Benitez with Victoria Perez and Eric Seiber (2020). Medicaid Access during Economic Distress: Lessons Learned from the Great Recession. Medical Care Research & Review. 2021; 78(5): 490-501 (Epub online March 4, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558720909237.

Joseph Benitez with Renuka Tipirneni, Victoria Perez, and Matthew M. Davis (2019). Post Expansion Medicaid Acceptability and the Influence of Provider Supply. Medical Care. 2019;57(5):348-352. doi:10.1097/MLR.0000000000001110

Victoria Perez, Joseph Benitez, and Eric Seiber (2018). “Elasticity of Medicaid Access with Respect to State Financial Distress.” AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108: 384–387.doi: 10.1257/pandp.20181107.

Joseph Benitez with Eric Seiber (2017). U.S. Health Care Reform and Rural America: Results from the ACA’s Medicaid Expansions. Journal of Rural Health. 2018 Mar;34(2):213-222. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12284. Epub 2017 Nov 6

Joseph Benitez, E. Kathleen Adams and Eric Seiber (2017). Did Health Care Reform Help Kentucky Address Disparities among the Poor? Health Services Research. 2018 June; 53(3):1387-1406. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.12699 

Joseph Benitez, Liza Creel, and J’Aime Jennings (2016). Kentucky Medicaid Expansion Showing Early Promise on Coverage and Access to Care. Health Affairs. 35(3). doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1294