Adam Leive

Adam Leive is a health economist who uses large administrative datasets to study policy-relevant questions about health insurance and safety net programs. His research seeks to understand consumer behavior in complicated life-cycle decisions that impact economic security, such as health insurance and retirement saving. He has also recently studied the effects of employment incentives in safety net programs on labor market outcomes and program participation. His research has been published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Journal of Health Economics. His research on Health Savings Accounts received the 2022 TIAA Institute Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and his B.A. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to his doctoral studies, Leive worked at the World Bank and the IMF. 

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Areas of Expertise

• Health Policy
• Economic Policy
• Public Finance

Curriculum Vitae

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Research

Working Papers

“Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers”
(with Ben Hyman and Brian Kovak)

“The Incidence of Adverse Selection: Theory and Evidence from Health Insurance Choices”
(with Mike Geruso and Tim Layton)

“Does Mandatory Retirement Saving Crowd Out Voluntary Retirement Saving?”
(with Leora Friedberg and Wenqiang Cai)

“Fungibility in Workplace Benefits Choices: Evidence from Health Savings Accounts”
(with Brent Davis and Andrew Gellert)

“Health Saving Accounts, Life-Cycle Saving, and Liquidity”
(with Leora Friedberg, Jaeki Jang, and Eric Young)

“Links Between Puzzles in Household Finance: Evidence from Employee Benefit Choices”
(with Leora Friedberg and Brent Davis)
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Published Papers in Economics

“On Resource Allocation in Health Care: The Case of Concierge Medicine” Journal of Health Economics, 2023. 90: 102776.
(with Molly Candon and Guy David)

“Employed in a SNAP? The Effect of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023. 15(1): 306–341.
(with Colin Gray, Elena Prager, Kelsey Pukelis, and Mary Zaki)

“Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts”American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022. 14(2): 200-227.
  •2022 TIAA Institute Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security

“Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race” Journal of Human Capital, 2022. 16(1): 47–72 (with Chris Ruhm)

“Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated?” Journal of Health Economics, 2021. 79: 102494. (with Chris Ruhm)

“Wage Insurance and Labor Market Trajectories” American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, 2021. 111: 491–95.
(with Ben Hyman, Brian Kovak, and Theo Naff)

“Losses (and Gains) from Health Reform for Non-Medicaid Uninsureds” Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2020. 87(1): 41–66.
(with Scott Harrington and Mark Pauly)

“Dying to Win? Olympic Gold Medals and Longevity” Journal of Health Economics, 2018. 87(1): 193-204.

“A Cautionary Tale in Comparative E.ectiveness Research: Perils and Pitfalls of Observational Data Analysis” in Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs. NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth. University of Chicago Press. 2018.
(with Armando Franco, Dana Goldman, and Daniel McFadden)

“Sticker Shock in Individual Insurance under Health Reform” American Journal of Health Economics, 2015. 1(4): 494–514.
(with Scott Harrington and Mark Pauly)

“Do National Cancer Screening Guidelines Reduce Mortality?” Journal of Population Economics , 2015. 28(4): 1075–1095
(with Thomas Stratmann)

“Plan Selection in Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data” Journal of Health Economics, 2013. 32(6): 1325–1344
(with Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter)

Published Papers in Health Policy

Pauly M, Leive A. “The Unanticipated Consequences of Postponing the Employer Mandate” (2013) New England Journal of Medicine 369: 691–693.

Leive A, Xu K. “Coping with Out-of-Pocket Health Payments: Empirical Evidence from 15 African Countries” (2008) Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86(11): 849–856.

Schieber G, Gottret P, Fleisher L, Leive A. “Financing Global Health: Mission Unaccomplished” (2007) Health Affairs 26(4): 921–934.

Last updated on 04/24/2024