Health Economics
Medicaid Policy
Health Inequality
Medically Underserved Populations
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, Kevin Callison, & E. Kathleen Adams, (2024). Joint effects of Medicaid eligibility and fees on recession-linked declines in healthcare access and health status. Health Economics, 33(7), 1426–1453. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4823
Joseph Benitez, Salama S. Freed, Huang Huang, and Tolulope Oladele. 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 (2024). 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. Medical Care; ():10.1097/MLR.0000000000001933, October 5, 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001933
Paul Shafer, Kenneth Lim, Demetri Goutos, Nicole Huberfeld, Joseph Benitez, Kevin Hsu, Julia Raifman. Making Pandemic Era Medicaid continuous coverage automatic for future crises. Health Services Research; 2023; 58(6): 1157-1160. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.14225
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-e221632. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.1632
Joseph Benitez and Lisa Dubay (2022). COVID-19-Related Medicaid Enrollment in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States. Health Services Research. 57(6): 1321-1331. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.14029.
Victoria Perez, Joseph Benitez, and Justin Ross (2021). The Role of Medicaid in Mitigating Pandemic-Related Fiscal Strain on Local Governments. Public Budgeting and Finance. Online ahead of print. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12298
Joseph Benitez with Timothy Williams, Evan Goldstein, and Eric Seiber. The Effects of Unemployment on Coverage and Health—Before and after the Affordable Care Act’s Coverage Expansions. Medical Care. Online ahead of print. July 26, 2021. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001603. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34310457. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001603
Joseph Benitez with Victoria Perez and Jie Chen (2021). Did Medicaid Slow Declines in Access to Care during the Great Recession? Health Services Research. 2021; 56(4): 655-667. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6773.13645
Joseph Benitez, Charles Courtemanche, & Aaron Yelowitz. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large Cities. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy 3, 243–261 (2020). https://doi.org/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. Epub ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558720909237.
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. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20181107
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. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12699. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28439903/
Joseph Benitez, Liza Creel., & J'Aime Jennings. (2016). Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion Showing Early Promise On Coverage And Access To Care. Health Affairs, 35(3), 528–534. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1294