Elaine L. Hill

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Environment

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]
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
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
The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
American Journal of Health Economics, 2024
[NBER WP 30684]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Natural Gas Development, Flaring, and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Texas
with Mary Willis, Alina Denham, and Perry Hystad

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
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 Transmission and Housing Prices
with Andy Boslett

Resource and Energy Economics, Vol 57, 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
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)

Maternal and Child Health

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
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
Labor Migration and Health of Left-Behind Children in China
with Lianlian Lei and Feng Liu

Journal of Development Studies, 2017
Drinking Water, Fracking, and Infant Health
with Lala Ma

Journal of Health Economics, 2022
The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
American Journal of Health Economics, 2024
[NBER WP 30684]
Natural Gas Development, Flaring, and Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Texas
with Mary Willis, Alina Denham, and Perry Hystad

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
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
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
School Food Environments and Policies in US Public Schools
with Daniel M. Finkelstein and Robert C. Whitaker

Pediatrics, vol. 122, July 2008

Opioid Crisis & Substance Use Disorder

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
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
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
Mortality During Resource Booms and Busts
with Andrew Boslett

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 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
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
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

Healthcare

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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 13WHAM; University of Rochester; FingerLakes.com; Cornell Chronicle]