Sarah Miller

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Sarah Miller
Alma mater Tulane University (BA); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PhD)
SpouseAndres Hagemann
AwardsASHEcon Medal
Scientific career
FieldsHealth Economics
Institutions University of Michigan
Thesis Essays in Applied Microeconomics  (2012)
Doctoral advisor Darren Lubotsky; Dan Bernhardt; Jeffrey Brown; Robert Kaestner

Sarah Miller is an American health economist currently serving as associate professor of Business Economics and Public Policy in the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. [1] Her research examines the short and long-term effects of health insurance expansions, and the impacts of income on individuals' health and well-being. [2] In 2022, she received the ASHEcon medal, awarded by the American Society of Health Economists to the best health economist under the age of 40. [3]

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Biography

Miller received her BS in Economics from Tulane University in 2006, and her PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois in 2012, [1] where she was a student of Darren Lubotsky, Dan Bernhardt, Jeffrey Brown, and Robert Kaestner. [4]

After completing her PhD, Miller joined the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy. In 2014, she became an assistant professor at the Ross School of Business, gaining tenure in 2022. [4]

In addition to her academic appointments, Miller is co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, [5] and an associate editor at the Journal of Health Economics. [6] She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. [7] In 2022, Miller received the ASHEcon medal, awarded by the American Society of Health Economists to the best health economist under the age of 40. [3]

Miller is married to Andres Hagemann, [4] an econometrician and assistant professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. [8]

Research

Infant mortality

In work with Maya Rossin-Slater, Laura Wherry, Petra Persson, Gloria Aldana, and Kate Kennedy-Moulton, Miller leverages administrative data from California to examine inequalities in infant mortality across the income distribution. [9] She finds that the incidence of pre-term births increases at higher incomes, but that mortality falls as income rises. [10]

Miller also shows that infant mortality in black families systematically exceeds that of white families, with infants born to black women at the top of the income distribution dying at higher rates than white women at the bottom of the income distribution. [10]

Insurance expansions

Miller has also written several papers on the impacts of health insurance expansions, particularly the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions. In a paper with Laura Wherry and Norman Johnson in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Miller shows that after the onset of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions, near elderly mortality fell in expansion relative to non-expansion states, [11] with results driven by disease-related deaths. [12] Their results suggest that states' decisions not to expand Medicaid led to 15,600 excess deaths per year among those ages 55–64. [13]

In related work published in the Journal of Public Economics, [14] Miller and co-authors also show that the ACA Medicaid expansions improved the financial health of their beneficiaries, reducing the number and size of unpaid non-medical bills. [15]

In work with Chloe East, Laura Wherry, and Marianne Page published in the American Economic Review, [16] Miller shows that the grandchildren of low-income pregnant women who became Medicaid beneficiaries in the 1980s were less likely to have low birth weight than their non-insured counterparts. [17] [18]

Universal basic income

With Eva Vivalt, David Broockman, Alex Bartik, and Elizabeth Rhodes, Miller is a principal investigator on Y Combinator's universal basic income experiment, [4] [19] in which unconditional cash transfers of $1,000 per month will be delivered to over 1,000 study participants across two states. [20]

Selected Articles

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References

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  2. ↑ "Sarah Miller | UChicago Urban Labs". urbanlabs.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  3. 1 2 "2022 ASHEcon Award Winners – ASHEcon" . Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Sarah Miller CV" (PDF). University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
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  6. ↑ "Editorial board – Journal of Health Economics | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  7. ↑ "Sarah Miller". NBER. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  8. ↑ "Andreas Hagemann | Michigan Ross". michiganross.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  9. ↑ Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Wherry, Laura; Aldana, Gloria (November 2022). Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data (Report). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:10.3386/w30693.
  10. 1 2 Kliff, Sarah; Miller, Claire Cain; Buchanan, Larry (2023-02-12). "Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They're Rich, Expansive Study Finds". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  11. ↑ Golshan, Tara (2019-07-23). "Study: the US could have averted about 15,600 deaths if every state expanded Medicaid". Vox. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  12. ↑ Miller, Sarah; Johnson, Norman; Wherry, Laura (2021-01-30). "Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence From Linked Survey and Administrative Data". Quarterly Journal of Economics . 136 (3): 1783–1829. doi:10.1093/qje/qjab004.
  13. ↑ Yglesias, Matthew (2019-10-29). "Health care is on the ballot in state elections starting next week". Vox. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  14. ↑ Hu, Luojia; Kaestner, Robert; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Miller, Sarah; Wong, Ashley (2018-07-01). "The effect of the affordable care act Medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing". Journal of Public Economics. 163: 99–112. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.04.009. ISSN   0047-2727. PMC   6208351 . PMID   30393411.
  15. ↑ "Medicaid expansion under Obamacare has improved financial health of low-income Americans". PBS NewsHour. 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  16. ↑ East, Chloe N.; Miller, Sarah; Page, Marianne; Wherry, Laura R. (2023-01-01). "Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health". American Economic Review. 113 (1): 98–135. doi:10.1257/aer.20210937. ISSN   0002-8282. PMC   10168672 . PMID   37168104.
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  18. ↑ Leubsdorf, Ben (2017-09-25). "The Benefits of Early Childhood Education and Health Programs May Last Longer Than a Lifetime". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  19. ↑ "Our Plan | Basic Income | OpenResearch". www.openresearchlab.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  20. ↑ "Y Combinator's $60 million basic-income experiment will begin next year". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
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