Kosali Simon
Prof Asst
2008
PAM

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Current Activities

Current Extension Activities
Cornell University Resource Education on Medicare Part D (CURxED) is an extension program that I started in 2006 to provide community education about the options available to seniors through the Medicare prescription drug program.
Further information on its activities is available at http://curxed.human.cornell.edu/index.cfm



Biography

Biographical Statement
Kosali Simon is an associate professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Associate of the Census Bureau. She is the 2007 Recipient of the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators (Given by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration) and is on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE).
Kosali's primary field is health economics. Her research investigates the impact of state and federal regulations attempting to ease the availability of private and public health insurance for vulnerable populations (through state 'small-group' reforms, public health insurance expansions, Medigap rate regulations and adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare) on health insurance, health and labor market outcomes. As examples of other work on the economics of health insurance, she has investigated the effect of factors such as unemployment, involuntary job loss, and minimum wage laws on health insurance. A secondary research focus is the determinants of health and care use, e.g. she has studied the income elasticity of demand for prescription medications. Kosali's research appears in Demography, Health Services Research, Industrial Labor Relations Review, Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Risk Management and Insurance Review, and Southern Journal of Economics. Kosali received her PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.


Courses, Websites, Pubs

Courses Taught
PAM 437: Economics of Health Policy
PAM 567: Health Policy


Related Websites
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kis6
http://curxed.human.cornell.edu/index.cfm



Selected Publications

25. Ketcham, J. and K. Simon. 2008. “Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization” American Journal of Managed Care. November. p14-22

24. Simon, K. and A. Handler. 2008. “Welfare Reform and Insurance Coverage during the Pregnancy Period: Implications for Preconception and Interconception Care” Women’s Health Issues vol 18, issue 6, supplement 1, p.97-106

23. Lhila, A. and K. Simon. 2008. “Prenatal Health Investment Decisions: Does the Child’s Sex Matter?”Demography Vol 45, n.4, November, pp.885-905

22. Reed, A., J. Mikels, and K. Simon. 2008. “"Older Adults Prefer Less Choice than Young Adults" Psychology and Aging. Vol 23, Issue 3, (September) pp.671-675

21. Simon, K. 2008. "Data Needs for Policy Research on State-Level Health Insurance Markets", Inquiry, Spring. Vol. 45, Iss. 1; p. 89-98.

20. Simon, K., S. Tennyson and J. Hudman, "Do State Cost Control Policies Reduce Medicaid Prescription Drug Spending?" Forthcoming. Risk Management & Insurance Review

19. Gruber, J., and K. Simon. 2008. "Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?" Journal of Health Economics 27, pp. 201–217

18. Burkhauser, R. and K. Simon. 2008. "Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?" Risk Management and Insurance Review. Vol 11, Issue 1, Pp.75-102

17. Kapur, K., J. Escarce, S. Marquis and K. Simon. 2008. “Where Do The Sick Go? Health Insurance and Employment in Small and Large Firms”. Southern Economic Journal, pp.644–664 Volume 74, Issue 3 (January)

16. Buchmueller, T., P.Cooper, K. Simon and J.Vistnes. 2006. “The Effect of SCHIP Expansions on Health Insurance Decisions by Employers”. Inquiry Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 218–231..

15. Bundorf, K. and K. Simon, 2006.“The Impact of Rate Regulation on Access to Supplemental Health Insurance.” American Economic Review 96 (2) May, pp.67-71 (Papers and Proceedings).

14. Cawley, J., M. Schroeder and K. Simon. 2006. “How Did Welfare Reform Affect the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children?” Health Services Research 41 (2) April, pp.486-506.

13. Cooper, P., K. Simon and J. Vistnes. 2006. “A Closer Look at the Managed Care ‘Backlash’,” Medical Care 44 (5), pp.1-11.

12. Moran, J. and K. Simon 2006. “Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts” Journal of Human Resources, 41(2) February, pp. 411–432.

11. Cawley, J., M. Schroeder and K. Simon, 2005 “How did Welfare Reform Affect the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children?” in A. Garber and D. Cutler ed. Frontiers in Health Policy Research, MIT Press.

10. Cawley, J. and K. Simon. 2005.“Health Insurance Coverage and the Macroeconomy”, Journal of Health Economics, 24, pp.299-315.

9. Jones, D. and K. Simon. 2005. “Wage Determination under Plan and Early Transition: Bulgarian Evidence using Matched Employer-Employee Data”, Journal of Comparative Economics, 33, Summer. pp.227-243..

8. Simon, K. 2005. “Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from State Small-Group Health Insurance Reforms.” Journal of Public Economics, 89, pp.1865-1877.

7. Simon, K. 2004. “What Have We Learned From Research on Small-group Insurance Reforms?” in Alan C Monheit and Joel Cantor ed. State Health Insurance Market Reform. Routledge.

6. Simon, K. and R. Kaestner. 2004. “Do Minimum-Wage Hikes Reduce Non-wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions”. Industrial Labor Relations Review 58, (1) (October): 52-70.

5. Cawley, J. and K. Simon. 2003.“The Impact of Macro-economic Conditions on the Health Insurance Coverage of Americans,” in A. Garber and D. Cutler ed. Frontiers in Health Policy Research, MIT Press.

4. Kaestner, R. and K. Simon. 2002. “Labor Market Consequences of State Health Insurance Reforms”. Industrial Labor Relations Review 56, (1), pp.136-160, October.

3. Simon, K. 2001. “Displaced Workers and Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Evidence of a Wage/Fringe Benefit Tradeoff?” International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 1, pp.249-271.

2. Evans,W., H. Levy and K. Simon. 2000. “Research Data in Health Economics”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14 (4) Fall, pp.203-216.

1. Jones, D. and K. Simon. 1998. “Determinants of Employee Participation in Firm-Level Decision Making: Evidence from Bulgaria,” in Advances in Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Vol 6, CT and London, JAI Press.