Elaine L. Hill

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Working Papers and Preprints

  1. 🆕 Pandemic Policies and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid Claims Data
    Konstantin Kunze, Meredith Adams, Daniel Guth, Grace Sventek, Elaine L. Hill
    Working Paper, 2025
  2. Algorithm for Improving Beneficiary Identifier Quality in Medicaid Administrative Data
    Konstantin Kunze, Meredith C. B. Adams, Robert W. Hurley, Daniel Guth, Alina Denham, Sydney Pargman, Aniket Patil, Elaine L. Hill
    Preprint, Research Square, 2026

Published Papers

  1. Who Benefits from Hazardous Waste Cleanups? Evidence from the Housing Market
    with Alecia Cassidy and Lala Ma
    Accepted at Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
    [NBER WP 30661] [Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Environment and Energy]
  2. Substance-Specific Mortality Risk Stratification Among Adults With Substance Use Disorders During Acute Respiratory Infection: A 3.4-Million-Patient N3C Cohort Study
    with Meredith C. B. Adams, Tanzy Love, Catherine Xie, Sharad Singh, Sydney Pargman, Aniket Patil, Anik De, and Robert W. Hurley
    Journal of Addiction Medicine, 2026
  3. Criterion Validity and Divergent Risk Profiles of Long-Term Opioid Therapy Across Medicare and Medicaid
    with Robert W. Hurley, Daniel Guth, and Meredith C.B. Adams
    PLOS ONE, 2026
  4. State Medicaid Spending for Long-Term Services and Supports and the Self-Reported Health of Spousal Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia
    with Zijing Cheng, Daniel D. Maeng, Hochang B. Lee, Jennifer M. Reckrey, Giselle Routhier, Meiling Ying, and Yue Li
    Aging and Health Research, Jan 2026
  5. Association of Vaccination with COVID Outcomes in Pregnant People with Autoimmune Diseases: A Retrospective National Cohort Analysis
    with Sohrab Jaferian, Kenneth Wilkins, Qiuyuan Qin, A. Jerrod Anzalone, Margaret L. Lind, Anna Sutton, Rena C. Patel, Namrata Singh, and the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
    Arthritis Care & Research, 2026
  6. HIV Infection and Long COVID: A RECOVER Program, Electronic Health Record-Based Cohort Study
    with Kellie L. Hawkins, Dima Dandachi, Zoe Verzani, M. Daniel Brannock, Colby Lewis, Sajjad Abedian, Sohrab Jaferian, Shannon Wuller, Jennifer Truong, Margot Gage Witvliet, Gretchen Dymond, Hemalkumar B. Mehta, Payal B. Patel, Mark G. Weiner, Thomas W. Carton, Rainu Kaushal, Elen Feuerriegel, Huong G. Tran, Kristen Marks, Carlos R. Oliveira, Edward M. Gardner, Igho Ofotokun, Roy M. Gulick, and Kristine M. Erlandson
    Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2025
  7. Negotiations of Oil and Gas Auxiliary Lease Clauses: Evidence from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale
    with Max Harleman and Pramod Manohar
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2025
  8. The Impact of Increased Medicaid Eligibility During Pregnancy on Medicaid Utilization and Gestational Age
    Nicolas P. Goldstein Novick, Peter J. Veazie, Elaine L. Hill, Eva K. Pressman, Peter G. Szilagyi, Timothy D. Nelin, Scott A. Lorch
    Health Services Research, September 14, 2025
  9. Evidence-Based Framework for Identifying Opioid Use Disorder in Administrative Data: A Systematic Review and Methodological Development Study
    Robert W. Hurley, Khadijah T. Bland, Mira D. Chaskes, Daniel Guth, Elaine L. Hill, Meredith CB Adams
    Pain Medicine, August 25, 2025
  10. Medicaid Coverage Policy Variations for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
    Meredith CB Adams, Seth M. Eller, Cara McDonnell, Sarjona Sritharan, Rishika Chikoti, Amaar Alwani, Elaine L. Hill, Robert W. Hurley
    JAMA Network Open, August 2025
  11. Has Increased Medicaid Spending on Home- and Community-Based Services Reduced Unmet Needs in Activities of Daily Living Care among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia? Evidence from 2008 to 2020
    Zijing Cheng, Hochang B. Lee, Daniel D. Maeng, Elaine L. Hill, Yue Li
    Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Vol. 26, No. 8, August 2025
  12. Impact of Drug Shortages on Cancer Care Delivery Within the National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program
    Lauren V Ghazal, Supriya Mohile, Kah Poh Loh, Karen Mustian, Grace Sventek, Umang Gada, Chin-Shang Li, Eva Culakova, Melyssa Foust, Judith O Hopkins, Heather Kehn, Charles Kamen, Erin R Fox, Elaine L Hill
    JCO Oncology Practice, 2025
  13. Diagnosis and Coding of Opioid Misuse: A Systematic Scoping Review and Implementation Framework
    with Robert W Hurley, Khadijah T Bland, Mira D Chaskes, Meredith CB Adams
    Pain Medicine, Feb 2025
  14. A Population-Based Study of Rates of Invasive Bacterial Infection (IBI) and Missed IBI in Febrile Infants 8-90 Days of Age
    with JP Yaeger, A Ertefaie, KA Fiscella
    The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 282, 114578, July 2025
  15. Changes in Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposures and Associations With Adverse Birth Outcomes Over 20 Years in Texas
    with Perry Hystad, Andrew Larkin, David Schrank, Max Harleman, E. Volkin, Erin J. Campbell, J. Molitor, Lena Harris, Beate R. Ritz, and Mary D. Willis
    International Journal of Epidemiology, 2025
  16. Long COVID After SARS-CoV-2 During Pregnancy in the United States
    with Chengxi Zang, Daniel Guth, Ann M. Bruno, Zhenxing Xu, Haoyang Li, Nariman Ammar, Robert Chew, Nick Guthe, Emily Hadley, Rainu Kaushal, Tanzy Love, Brenda M. McGrath, Rena C. Patel, Elizabeth C. Seibert, Yalini Senathirajah, Sharad Kumar Singh, Fei Wang, Mark G. Weiner, Kenneth J. Wilkins, Yiye Zhang, Torri D. Metz, and Thomas W. Carton
    Nature Communications, 2025
  17. Effect of Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) on Hospitalization Among Adults with COVID-19: An Electronic Health Record-Based Target Trial Emulation from N3C
    with Abhishek Bhatia, Alexander J. Preiss, Xuya Xiao, M. Daniel Brannock, G. Caleb Alexander, Robert F. Chew, Hannah Davis, Megan Fitzgerald, Elizabeth P. Kelly, Hemalkumar B. Mehta, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Kenneth J. Wilkins, Christopher G. Chute, Melissa Haendel, Richard Moffitt, and Emily R. Pfaff
    PLOS Medicine, 2025
  18. Associations of County-Level Social Determinants of Health with COVID-19 Related Hospitalization Among People with HIV: A Retrospective Analysis of the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
    with Jessica Y. Islam, Eric Hurwitz, Dongmei Li, Marlene Camacho-Rivera, Jing Sun, Sandra Safo, Jennifer M. Ross, Kenneth Wilkins, Shukri Hassan, Bohdan Nosyk, Cara Varley, Nada Fadul, Charisse Madlock-Brown, and Rena C. Patel
    AIDS and Behavior, 2024
  19. Limited Impact of Roadway Construction and Traffic Congestion on Nearby Housing Prices
    with Lena Harris, Max Harleman, Mary Willis, and Perry Hystad
    Transport Policy, 2024
  20. Portable Medical Orders and Inpatient Cost at End of Life in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes
    with M LoCastro, A Baran, J Liesveld, E Huselton, KP Loh, JH Mendler
    JCO Oncology Practice, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 876-882, June 2025
  21. Racial and Urban-Rural Disparities in Lung Cancer Care: Insight from a Latent Class Growth Analysis
    with S Jaferian, T Love, SK Singh, Y Xie, JR Wolf
    Journal of Cancer Policy, vol. 44, 100585, June 2025
  22. Roadway Construction as a Natural Experiment to Examine Air Pollution Impacts on Infant Health
    with Max Harleman, Lena Harris, Grace Sventek, Beate Ritz, Erin J. Campbell, Mary Willis, Perry Hystad
    Environmental Research, 2024, 118788
  23. Insights from an N3C RECOVER EHR-based Cohort Study Characterizing SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections and Long COVID
    Emily Hadley, Yun Jae Yoo, Saaya Patel, Andrea Zhou, Bryan Laraway, Rachel Wong, Alexander Preiss, Rob Chew, Hannah Davis, M. Daniel Brannock, Christopher G. Chute, Emily R. Pfaff, Johanna Loomba, Melissa Haendel, Elaine Hill, N3C and RECOVER consortia & Richard Moffitt
    Communications Medicine, vol.4, 2024
  24. Assessing Associations Between Individual-Level Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 Hospitalizations: Investigating Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among People Living with HIV in the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
    Dimple Vaidya, Kenneth J Wilkins, Eric Hurwitz, Jessica Y Islam, Dongmei Li, Jing Sun, Sandra E Safo, Jennifer M Ross, Shukri Hassan, Elaine Hill, Bohdan Nosyk, Cara D Varley, Nada Fadul, Marlene Camacho-Rivera, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Rena C Patel
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2024
  25. Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness During Pre-Delta, Delta and Omicron Dominant Periods Among Pregnant People in the U.S.: Retrospective Cohort Analysis from a Nationally Sampled Cohort in National COVID Collaborative Cohort (N3C)
    Qiuyuan Qin, Kenneth Wilkin, Sara E Jones, Katie Rebecca Bradwell, Lauren Chan, Jing Sun, Jerrod Anzalone, Qulu Zheng, Michael Liebman, Federico Mariona, Emily A Groene Faherty, Anup P Challa, Elaine Hill, Rena C Patel, on behalf of the N3C consortium
    BMJ Public Health, 2024
  26. High Traffic Roads and Adverse Birth Outcomes: Comparing Births Upwind and Downwind of the Same Road
    A Larkin, MD Willis, L Harris, B Ritz, EL Hill, P Hystad
    American Journal of Epidemiology, 2024
  27. Drinking Water Contaminant Concentrations and Birth Outcomes
    with Richard DiSalvo
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
    [NBER WP 31567] [Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Health]
  28. A Population-Based Cohort Study of Electronic Tolling, Traffic Congestion, and Adverse Birth Outcomes
    with Mary D Willis, Lena Harris, Erin J Campbell, Mira Chaskes, Ethan Sawyer, Max Harleman, Beate Ritz, Perry Hystad
    Environment International, 2023
  29. Pregnancy Outcomes among Pregnant Persons after COVID-19 Vaccination: Assessing Vaccine Safety in Retrospective Cohort Analysis of U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
    Emily A. G. Faherty, Kenneth J. Wilkins, Sara Jones, Anup Challa, Qiuyuan Qin, Lauren E. Chan, Courtney Olson-Chen, Jessica L. Tarleton, Michael N. Liebman, Federico Mariona, Elaine L. Hill, Rena C. Patel, and The N3C Consortium
    Vaccine, 2024
  30. Is the Emergency Department a Substitute for or a Complement to Primary Care in Medicaid?
    with Denham A, Raven M, Mendoza M, Raz M, Veazie PJ
    Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2023
  31. Who is Pregnant? Defining Real-World Data-Based Pregnancy Episodes in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
    Jones, Sara, Katie R. Bradwell, Lauren E. Chan, Courtney Olson-Chen, Jessica Tarleton, Kenneth J. Wilkins, Qiuyuan Qin,…, Elaine L. Hill
    JAMIA Open, 2024
  32. The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
    American Journal of Health Economics, 2024
    [NBER WP 30684]
  33. Changes in Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution Due to Major Roadway Infrastructure Improvements in Texas
    with Max Harleman, Lena Harris, Mary D. Willis, Beate Ritz, and Perry Hystad
    Science of the Total Environment, 2023
  34. Risk Factors Associated with Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: An N3C and NIH RECOVER Study
    with Mehta HB, Sharma S, Mane K, Singh SK, Xie C, Cathey E, Loomba J, Russell S, Spratt H, DeWitt PE, Ammar N, Madlock-Brown C, Brown D, McMurry JA, Chute CG, Haendel MA, Moffitt R, Pfaff ER, Bennett TD
    BMC Public Health, 2023
  35. Changes in Socioeconomic Disparities for Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy Over a 20-year Period in Texas
    with Mary D. Willis, Max Harleman, Collette Ncube, Erin Campbell, Lena Harris, Beate Ritz, and Perry Hystad
    JAMA Network Open, 2023
  36. Air Quality Impacts of Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania
    with Ruohao Zhang, Huan Li, Neha Khanna, Alan Krupnick & Daniel M. Sullivan
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023
    [Coverage: Environmental Health News; Binghamton University News; WBNG Channnel 12]
  37. Associations Among Historical Neighborhood Disinvestment, Hazardous Air Pollutants, and Current Adult Asthma Prevalence
    Erin Campbell, Elaine L. Hill, Kendra Sims, and Mary Willis
    Environmental Health Perspectives, 2023
  38. Coding Long COVID: Characterizing a New Disease Through an ICD-10 Lens
    with Emily Pfaff, Charisse Madlock-Brown, John M. Baratta, Abhishek Bhatia, Hannah Davis, Andrew Girvin, Liz Kelly, Kristin Kostka, Johanna Loomba, Julie A. McMurry, Rachel Wong, Tellen D Bennett, Richard Moffitt, Christopher G Chute, Melissa Haendel, The N3C Consortium, The RECOVER Consortium
    BMC Medicine, 2023
  39. Multiple Dimensions of Environmental Justice and Oil and Gas Development in Pennsylvania
    with Wil Lieberman-Cribbin, Xin Fang, Rachel Morello-Frosch, David J.X. Gonzalez, Nicole Deziel, Jonathan Buonocore, Joan A. Casey
    Environmental Justice, 2023
  40. A Population-Based Cohort Study of Traffic Congestion and Infant Growth Using Connected Vehicle Data
    with MD Willis, D Schrank, C Xu, L Harris, BR Ritz, P Hystad
    Science Advances, 2022
  41. Mortality During Resource Booms and Busts
    with Andrew Boslett
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022
  42. Drinking Water, Fracking, and Infant Health
    with Lala Ma
    Journal of Health Economics, 2022
  43. Post-Acute Care Use Associated with Medicare Shared Savings Program and Disparities
    with Y Kim, C Thirukumaran, H Temkin-Greener, R Holloway, Y Li
    Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2022
  44. The Geographical Correlation Between Historical Preterm Birth Disparities and COVID-19 Burden
    with PS Marinescu, C Olson-Chen, JC Glantz, SJ Hollenbach
    Reproductive Sciences, 2022
  45. Coroner Systems Are Associated with Higher Likelihood of Unclassified Drug Overdoses
    with Alina Denham, Tarsha Vasu, Paloma Avendano, Andrew Boslett, Michael Mendoza
    American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2022
  46. Where You Drink Water: An Assessment of the Tennessee, USA Public Water Supply
    Ke Jack Ding, George M Hornberger, Elaine L Hill, Yolanda J McDonald
    Water, 2022
  47. A Systematic Review of Geospatial Representation of United States Community Water Systems
    Yolanda J. McDonald, Kayla M. Anderson, Mariah D. Caballero, Ke Jack Ding, Douglas H. Fisher, Caroline P. Morkel, Elaine L. Hill
    AWWA Water Science, 2022
  48. The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C): Rationale, Design, Infrastructure, and Deployment
    with Melissa A. Haendel, Christopher G. Chute, Tellen D. Bennett, et al.
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2021
  49. Associations Between Residential Proximity to Oil and Gas Extraction and Hypertensive Conditions During Pregnancy: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis in Texas, 1996-2009
    Mary D Willis, Elaine L Hill, Molly L Kile, Susan Carozza, Perry Hystad
    International Journal of Epidemiology, 2021
  50. The Fracking Concern with Water Quality
    with Lala Ma
    Science, 2021
  51. Associations Between Historically Redlined Districts and Racial Disparities in Current Obstetric Outcomes
    Stefanie J. Hollenbach, Loralei L. Thornburg, J. Christopher Glantz, Elaine Hill
    JAMA Netw Open, Oct 2021
  52. The Association of Prevention and Promotion Focus with Clinicians' Implementation of The JNC-7 Hypertension Treatment Guidelines
    Mechelle Sanders, Kevin Fiscella, Elaine Hill, Olugbenga Ogedegbe, Andrea Cassells, Jonathan N. Tobin, Stephen Williams, Peter Veazie
    The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2021
  53. Economic, Environmental, and Health Impacts of the Fracking Boom
    Katie Black, Andrew Boslett, Elaine Hill, Lala Ma, Shawn McCoy
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2021
  54. Associations between Residential Proximity to Oil and Gas Drilling and Term Birth Weight and Small-for-Gestational-Age Infants in Texas: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
    Mary D. Willis, Elaine L. Hill, Andrew Boslett, Molly L. Kile, Susan E. Carozza, and Perry Hystad
    Environmental Health Perspectives, July 2021
  55. Institutional Postacute Care Use May Help Reduce Readmissions for Ischemic Stroke Patients
    Yeunkyung Kim, Caroline Thirukumaran, Helena Temkin-Greener, Elaine Hill, Robert Holloway, Yue Li
    Medical Care, 2021
  56. Fatal Opioid Overdoses in the U.S. Declined More Than Reported Between 2017 and 2018
    Andrew Boslett, Alina Denham, Elaine Hill
    The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2021
  57. Rural Light Pollution from Shale Gas Development and Associated Sleep and Subjective Well-Being
    Andrew Boslett, Elaine Hill, Lala Ma, Lujia Zhang
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2021
  58. Acute Myocardial Infarction Associated with Unconventional Natural Gas Development: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
    Alina Denham, Mary Willis, Daniel Croft, Linxi Liu, and Elaine Hill
    Environmental Research, 2021
  59. Health and Charge Benefits from Decreasing PM2.5 Concentrations in New York State: Effects of Changing Compositions
    Philip K. Hopke and Elaine L. Hill
    Atmospheric Pollution Research, Vol 12, Issue 3, March 2021
  60. The Effect of Medicare Shared Savings Program on Readmissions and Variations by Race/Ethnicity and Payer Status
    with Yeunkyung Kim, Caroline Thirukumaran, Helena Tempkin-Greener, Bob Holloway, and Yue Li
    Medical Care, 2021
  61. Natural Gas Development, Flaring, and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Texas
    with Mary Willis, Alina Denham, and Perry Hystad
    International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
  62. Assessment of Financial Toxicity Among Older Adults with Advanced Cancer
    with Arastu A, Patel A, Mohile SG, Ciminelli J, Kaushik R, Wells M, Culakova E, Lei L, Xu H, Dougherty DW, Mohamed MR, Duberstein P, Flannery MA, Kamen CS, Pandya C, Berenberg JL, Aarne V, Liu Y, Loh KP
    JAMA Netw Open, Dec 2020
  63. Social Distancing Has Merely Stabilized COVID-19 in the US
    with Aaron Wagner, Sean E. Ryan, Ziteng Sun, Grace Deng, Sourbh Bhadane, Victor Hernandez Martinez, Peter Wu, Dongmei Li, Ajay Anand, Jayadev Acharya, and David S. Matteson
  64. Assessing the Effectiveness of Vehicle Emission Regulations on Improving Perinatal Health: A Population-Based Accountability Study
    with Mary Willis, Molly Kile, Susan Carozza, and Perry Hystad
    International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
  65. Are Increasing Trends in Opioid-Related Hospitalizations Attributable to Increases in Diagnosis Recordability? Evidence from Two Large States
    with Alina Denham, Teraisa Mulaney, and Peter Veazie
    Health Services Insights, Vol 12, 2019
  66. Unclassified Drug Overdose Deaths in the Opioid Crisis: Emerging Patterns of Inequity
    with Meredith Adams, Andy Boslett, and Alina Denham
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 26(8-9), 2019
  67. Shale Gas Transmission and Housing Prices
    with Andy Boslett
    Resource and Energy Economics, Vol 57, 2019
  68. Reproductive Health Care in Catholic-Owned Hospitals
    with David Slusky and Donna Ginther
    Journal of Health Economics, Vol.65, 2019
    Also as NBER WP 23768. [Coverage: STAT, Scientific American, Modern Health Care]
  69. Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Hospitalizations: Evidence from Pennsylvania, 2003-2014
    with Alina Denham, Mary Willis, and Alexis Zavez
    Public Health, Vol. 168, 2019
  70. Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania
    with Mary D. Willis, Todd A. Jusko, and Jill S. Halterman
    Environmental Research, 2018
  71. Psychosocial Implications of Unconventional Natural Gas Development: Quality of Life in Ohio's Guernsey and Noble Counties
    with Michael P. Fisher, Alex Mayer, Kaitlin Vollet, and Erin N. Haynes
    Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2018
  72. The Economic and Health Effects of the 2014 Chemical Spill in the Elk River, West Virginia
    with T. Guilfoos, D. Kell, and A. Boslett
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017
  73. Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality
    with Lala Ma
    American Economic Review, vol. 107, no. 5, May 2017
  74. Labor Migration and Health of Left-Behind Children in China
    with Lianlian Lei and Feng Liu
    Journal of Development Studies, 2017
  75. Bundling of Reimbursement for Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement Resulted in Significantly Decreased Utilization between 2012 and 2014
    with Roan J. Glocker, Mathew J. TerBush, Joseph J. Guido, Adam Doyle, Jennifer L. Ellis, Gary R. Morrow, Michael C. Stoner
    Annals of Vascular Surgery, 2017 Vol 38
  76. Patient Education of Consumer Mediated Health Information Exchange
    with Carolyn L. Turvey, David M Klein, Matthew Witry, J. Stacey Klutts, Bruce Alexander, and Kim M. Nazi
    Applied Clinical Informatics, Vol 7: Issue 3 2016
  77. The Environmental and Economic Effects of Localizing Food Supply Chains: Dairy in the Northeast US
    with Xi He, Miguel Gomez, Charles Nicholson and Oliver Gao
    Environmental Science and Technology, 2015; 49(20)
  78. School Food Environments and Policies in US Public Schools
    with Daniel M. Finkelstein and Robert C. Whitaker
    Pediatrics, vol. 122, July 2008

Book Chapters

  1. Birth Spacing and Educational Outcomes
    with David Slusky
    Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, In Human Capital and Health Behavior, pp. 3-29. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017