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[🗂 Papers by Year](research.md) | [📚 Papers by Topic](research_by_topics.md)
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### Working Papers
1. 🆕 **Pandemic Policies and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid Claims Data**
with Konstantin Kunze, Meredith Adams, Daniel Guth, Grace Sventek
[[Working Paper](https://www.konstantin-kunze.com/files/kunze_covid_policy.pdf)]
### 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](https://www.nber.org/papers/w30661)] [[Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Environment and Energy](https://www.nber.org/reporter/2023number4/program-report-environment-and-energy-economics)]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **Drinking Water Contaminant Concentrations and Birth Outcomes**
with Richard DiSalvo
*Journal of Policy Analysis and Management*, 2023 [Paper 📄]
[[NBER WP 31567](https://www.nber.org/papers/w31567)] [[Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Health](https://www.nber.org/bh/20233/drinking-water-contamination-even-low-levels-affects-birth-outcomes?page=1&perPage=50)]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health**
*American Journal of Health Economics*, 2024 [Paper 📄]
[NBER WP 30684]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
[Coverage: Environmental Health News; Binghamton University News; WBNG Channnel 12]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **Mortality During Resource Booms and Busts**
with Andrew Boslett
*Journal of Environmental Economics and Management*, 2022 [Paper 📄]
1. **Drinking Water, Fracking, and Infant Health**
with Lala Ma
*Journal of Health Economics*, 2022 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **The Fracking Concern with Water Quality**
with Lala Ma
*Science*, 2021 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **Natural Gas Development, Flaring, and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Texas**
with Mary Willis, Alina Denham, and Perry Hystad
*International Journal of Epidemiology*, 2020 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
[Coverage: 13WAHM; University of Rochester; FingerLakes.com; Cornell Chronicle]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
[Coverage: The Atlantic; ABC News; Newsweek; NewScientist; The Washington Post; Scientific American]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **Shale Gas Transmission and Housing Prices**
with Andy Boslett
*Resource and Energy Economics*, Vol 57, 2019 [Paper 📄]
1. **Reproductive Health Care in Catholic-Owned Hospitals**
with David Slusky and Donna Ginther
*Journal of Health Economics*, Vol.65, 2019 [Paper 📄]
Also as NBER WP 23768. [Coverage: STAT, Scientific American, Modern Health Care]
1. **Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Hospitalizations: Evidence from Pennsylvania, 2003-2014**
with Alina Denham, Mary Willis, and Alexis Zavez
*Public Health*, Vol. 168, 2019 [Paper 📄]
1. **Shale Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania**
*Journal of Health Economics*, Vol. 61, 2018 [Paper 📄]
1. **Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania**
with Mary D. Willis, Todd A. Jusko, and Jill S. Halterman
*Environmental Research*, 2018 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality**
with Lala Ma
*American Economic Review*, vol. 107, no. 5, May 2017 [Paper 📄]
1. **Labor Migration and Health of Left-Behind Children in China**
with Lianlian Lei and Feng Liu
*Journal of Development Studies*, 2017 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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 [Paper 📄]
1. **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) [Paper 📄]
1. **School Food Environments and Policies in US Public Schools**
with Daniel M. Finkelstein and Robert C. Whitaker
*Pediatrics*, vol. 122, July 2008 [Paper 📄]
### 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