Research
Working Papers
Bronchetti E and M McInerney. 2023. "Work-Related Injuries and Older Workers: Earnings, Labor Supply, Program Participation, and Retirement."
Alsan, M, MK Bundorf, M Fisher, M McInerney, A Ortega, K Simon, R Winecoff, and E Ziedan. 2023. "Racial and Ethnic Segregation in Nursing Home and Ambulatory Care."
Lipton, B, J Garcia, M Boudreaux, P Azatyan, and M McInerney. 2023. "Most State Medicaid Programs Cover Routine Eye Exams for Adults, but Coverage of Other Routine Vision Services Varies." Revised and resubmitted.
Bundorf, MK, M McInerney, K Simon, and R Winecoff. 2023. “The Effect of Insurance on Health: Evidence from Increased Access to Health Insurance Before Age 65.”
McInerney, M, JM Mellor, C Pelnik (GSAS ’24), LM Sabik. 2023. “Implications of the Growth of Defined Contribution Retirement Plans for Safety Net Eligibility: The Case of Medicaid.”
McInerney, M, M Rutledge, S King. 2017. "How Much Does Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Eat Away at Retirement Income?" Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Working Paper CRR-WP-2017-13.
Publications
Mellor, JM, M McInerney, RC Garrow, and LM Sabik. 2023. “The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Medicare Spending and Utilization by Older Low-Income Adults.” Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14155.
McInerney, M, JM Mellor, LM Sabik, and V Ramamoorthy (GSAS ’23). 2022. “Improving Identification of Community-Dwelling Older Adults Eligible for Medicaid in Major Household Surveys.” Health Services Outcomes and Research Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10742-022-00297-5
McInerney, M, G McCormack, JM Mellor, LM Sabik. 2022. “Association of ACA Medicaid Expansion with Medicaid Receipt and Health Care Use in Low-Income Older Adults with Chronic Condition Limitations.” JAMA Health Forum, 3(6):e221373. http://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.1373.
Roberts, E, JM Mellor, M McInerney, and LM Sabik. 2022. “Effects of a Medicaid Dental Coverage ‘Cliff’ on Dental Access Among Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries.” Health Services Research. http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13981
Garrow, R, M McInerney, JM Mellor, and LM Sabik. 2022. “Examining Medicaid Participation and Medicaid Entry among Senior Medicare Beneficiaries with Linked Administrative and Survey Data.” Medical Care Research and Review.
Cornelio, N, M McInerney, JM Mellor, ET Roberts, and LM Sabik. 2021. “Increasing Medicaid Asset Tests for People Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid Will Help Vulnerable Seniors.” Health Affairs, 40(12): 1943-1952.
McInerney M, J Mellor, and L Sabik. 2021. “Welcome Mats and On-Ramps for Older Adults: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansions on Dual Enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 40(1): 12-41.
Bronchetti, ET and M McInerney. 2021. “Health Care Reform and Workers’ Compensation: Evidence from Massachusetts.” Industrial Labor Relations and Review. 4(2): 388-418. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793919891425
Mellor, JM, M McInerney, and LM Sabik. 2021. “Misclassification of Medicaid Participation by Dual Eligibles: Evidence from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.” Medical Care Research and Review, 78(2): 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558719858839
McInerney, M, R Winecoff, P Ayyagari, K Simon, and MK Bundorf. 2020. "ACA Medicaid Expansion Associated with Increased Medicaid Participation and Improved Health Among the Near-Elderly: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study." INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care, Organization, and Financing.
McInerney, M and M Meiselbach (A `15). 2020. "Distributional Effects of Recent Health Insurance Expansions on Weight-Related Outcomes." Economics and Human Biology, August 2020.
Dillender, M and M McInerney. 2020. "The Role of Mexican Immigration to the United States in Improved Workplace Safety for Natives from 1980 to 2015." Journal of Health Economics.
Roberts, ET, JM Mellor, M McInerney, and LM Sabik. 2019. "State Variation in the Characteristics of Medicare-Medicaid Dual Enrollees: Implications for Risk Adjustment." Health Services Research, 54: 1233-1245.
McInerney, M, JM Mellor, and LM Sabik. 2017. "The Effects of State Medicaid Expansions for Working-Age Adults on Senior Medicare Beneficiaries." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(3): 408-38.
McHenry, PN and M McInerney. 2015. "Estimating Hispanic-White Wage Gaps Among Women: The Importance of Controlling for Cost of Living." Journal of Labor Research, 36: 249-273.
Bronchetti, ET and M McInerney. 2015. "What Determines Employer Accommodation of Injured Workers? The Importance of Employer Workers' Compensation Costs, State Policies, and Case-Specific Characteristics." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 68(3): 558-583.
He, D, M McInerney, and JM Mellor. 2015. "Physician Responses to Rising Local Unemployment Rates: Hospital Care Provision to Medicare and Privately-Insured Patients." Journal of Health Economics, 40: 97-108.
McHenry, PN and M McInerney. 2014. "The Importance of Cost of Living and Education in Estimates of the Conditional Wage Gap Between Black and White Women." Journal of Human Resources, 49(3): 695-722.
McInerney, M, JM Mellor, and LH Nicholas. 2013. "Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash." Journal of Health Economics, 32(6): 1090-1104.
McInerney, M and JM Mellor. 2012. "State Unemployment During Recessions from 1991-2009 Was Linked to Faster Growth in Medicare Spending." Health Affairs, 31(11): 2464-2473.
McInerney, M and JM Mellor. 2012. "Recessions and Seniors' Health, Health Behaviors, and Healthcare Use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey." Journal of Health Economics, 31: 744-751.
Bronchetti, ET and M McInerney. 2012. "Revisiting Incentive Effects in Workers' Compensation: Do Higher Benefits Really Induce More Claims?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 65(2): 288-315.
McInerney, M and KI Simon. 2012. "State Workers' Compensation Program Reforms and Social Security Disability Receipt." Industrial Relations, 51(1): 57-88.
Hellerstein, JK, M McInerney, and D Neumark. 2011. "Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks." Journal of Labor Economics, 29(4): 659-695.
Hellerstein, JK, D Neumark, and M McInerney. 2010. "Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States." Annales d'Economie et de Statistique/Annals of Economics and Statistics, 99/199: 141-167.
McInerney, M. 2010. "Privatizing Public Services and Strategic Behavior: The Impact of Incentives to Reduce Workers' Compensation Claim Duration." Journal of Public Economics 94(9-10): 777-789.
Hellerstein, JK, D Neumark, and M McInerney. 2008. "Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?" Journal of Urban Economics, 64(2): 464-479.