Furman Center Speaker Series: The Impact of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Housing Evictions

Please join the NYU Furman Center for a lunchtime discussion:

The Impact of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Housing Evictions

Heidi Allen PhD

Assistant Professor
Columbia University School of Social Work

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Abstract:
One of the primary benefits of Medicaid expansion to low-income uninsured populations appears to be an improvement in household finances. Dr. Allen and co-authors examine the impact of Medicaid on housing evictions, an outcome that is devastating to low-income families. Studying both California's early Medicaid expansion and the 2014 expansions, they find that Medicaid expansions are associated with a reduction in housing evictions. 

About the Speaker:
Dr. Heidi L. Allen studies the impact of social policies, like Medicaid, on health and financial well-being. Dr. Allen was a lead investigator on the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, where she oversaw primary data collection for mail surveys and in-person health screenings, qualitative interviews, and development of an administrative emergency department claims database.

Dr. Allen is currently involved in a variety of research projects focused on social policy at the intersection of health and poverty. She is using a novel source of all-payer claims data merged with state administrative data on family income to compare Medicaid and Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage on access to healthcare, quality of care, and costs to individuals and society. In another study, Dr. Allen is examining potential health impacts in the Paycheck Plus demonstration project, an experimental evaluation of providing low-income single-adults with an income supplement similar to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). She is also studying the impact of Medicaid expansions on housing evictions.

Findings from her research have been published in high-impact journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Milbank Quarterly, and Health Affairs. She has received funding as a principal investigator from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
 

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP and bring your questions.