Elaine L. Hill

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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]

State Medicaid Spending for Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) 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, Yue Li Aging and Health Research, Jan 2026

Negotiations of Oil and Gas Auxiliary Lease Clauses: Evidence from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale
with Max Harleman and Pramod Manohar
Resource and Energy Economics, forthcoming

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

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

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

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

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

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

Limited Impact of Roadway Construction and Traffic Congestion on Nearby Housing Prices
with Lena Harris, Max Harleman, Mary Willis, and Perry Hystad
Transport Policy, forthcoming

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

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

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

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

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

Drinking Water Contaminant Concentrations and Birth Outcomes
with Richard DiSalvo
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Accepted
[NBER WP 31567] [Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Health]

Influence of Community Determinants on Barriers and Facilitators to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: Regional Stakeholders’ Perspectives
with Russ S, Bennett N, van Wijngaarden E, Liu Y
Vaccine, 2024

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

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

Is the emergency department used as a substitute 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

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

The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
American Journal of Health Economics, 2024
[NBER WP 30684]

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

Mortality During Resource Booms and Busts
with Andrew Boslett
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022

Drinking Water, Fracking, and Infant Health
with Lala Ma
Journal of Health Economics, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Fracking Concern with Water Quality
with Lala Ma
Science, 2021

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

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

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

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

Clinical Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Adults Using Data From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative
Tellen D. Bennett, Richard A. Moffitt, Janos G. Hajagos, et al.
JAMA Netw Open, July 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

Natural Gas Development, Flaring, and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Texas
with Mary Willis, Alina Denham, and Perry Hystad
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020

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

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
Stat, 2020
[Coverage: 13WAHM; University of Rochester; FingerLakes.com; Cornell Chronicle]

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

Using Contributing Causes of Death Improves Prediction of Opioid Involvement in Unclassified Drug Overdoses in US Death Records
with Andy Boslett and Alina Denham
Addiction, 2020
[Coverage: The Atlantic; ABC News; Newsweek; NewScientist; The Washington Post; Scientific American]

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

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

Shale Gas Transmission and Housing Prices
with Andy Boslett
Resource and Energy Economics, Vol 57, 2019

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]

Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Hospitalizations: Evidence from Pennsylvania, 2003-2014
with Alina Denham, Mary Willis, and Alexis Zavez
Public Health, Vol. 168, 2019

Shale Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania
Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 61, 2018

Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania
with Mary D. Willis, Todd A. Jusko, and Jill S. Halterman
Environmental Research, 2018

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

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

Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality
with Lala Ma
American Economic Review: P&P, 107(5), 2017

Labor Migration and Health of Left-Behind Children in China
with Lianlian Lei and Feng Liu
Journal of Development Studies, 2017

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

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

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)

School Food Environments and Policies in US Public Schools
with Daniel M. Finkelstein and Robert C. Whitaker
Pediatrics, vol. 122, July 2008

Book Chapters

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