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Jonathan Gruber ";

Publications

Faith-Based Crowdout and Charity During the Great Depression
forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics (also available as NBER Working paper #11332, May 2005) with Dan Hungerman

Abortion Legalization and Lifecycle Fertility
forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources, (also available as NBER Working Paper
#10705, August 2004) with Phil Levine and Elizabeth Ananat

Social Security and Retirement, forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics
(also available as NBER Working Paper #7830, August 2000) (with Courtney Coile) 

Social Security and Elderly Living Arrangements
forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources (also available as NBER Working Paper #8911, April 2002) (with Gary Engelhardt and Cindy Perry). 

Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision
forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics (with Jeff Kubik) (also available as NBER Working Paper #9148, September 2002). 

Moral Hazard in Nursing Home Use
Journal of Health Economics, 26, 2007, 560-577 (with David Grabowski)

The Massachusetts Health Care Revolution: A Local Start for Universal Coverage
Hastings Center Report, 36 (5), September-October 2006, 14-19

Does Falling Smoking Lead to Rising Obesity?, forthcoming, Journal of Health Economics (with Michael Frakes)

Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You? Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy
Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 5 (2005). 

Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?, forthcoming, Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy (also available as NBER Working Paper #8872, April 2002) (with Sendhil Mullainathan)

Subsidies to Employee Health Insurance Premiums and the Health Insurance Market
forthcoming, Journal of Health Economics (also available as NBER Working Paper #9567, March 2003) (with Ebonya Washington) 

Public Insurance and Child Hospitalization: Access and Efficiency Effects
Journal of Public Economics, 89 (1), January 2005, Pages 109-129 (with Leemore Dafny)

Pay or Pray? The Impact of Charitable Subsidies on Religious Attendance
Journal of Public Economics, 88 (12), December 2004, Pages 2635-2655.

Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce
Journal of Labor Economics, 22 (4), October, 2004, Pages 799-833

Tax Incidence When Individuals are Time Inconsistent: The Case of Cigarette Excise Taxes
with Botond Koszegi
August 2004, Journal of Public Economics, 88(9-10), 1959-1988 

How Elastic is the Firm's Demand for Health Insurance?
with Michael Lettau
July 2004, Journal of Public Economics, 88(7), 1273-1294 

Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?
with Peter Orszag
December 2003, National Tax Journal, 56(4), 755-773 

Why Did Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rise?
with Robin McKnight
November 2003, Journal of Health Economics, 22(5), 1085-1104 

Estimating Price Elasticities When There is Smuggling: The Sensitivity of Smoking to Price in Canada
with Anindya Sen and Mark Stabile
September 2003, Journal of Health Economics, 22(5), 821-842 

The Retirement Incentive Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs
Canadian Journal of Economics, 36 (2), May 2003, Pages 261-290 (with Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan) 

Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Incremental Health Insurance Expansion: What is the Right Criterion?
May 2003, American Economic Review, 93(2), 271-276 

Smoking's 'Internalities'
Winter 2002, Regulation, 25(4), 25-57 

Regulating Tobacco in the United States: The Government and the Court Room
July 2002, World Economics, 3(3), 27-53

Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits
with Courney Coile, Peter Diamond and Alan Jousten
June 2002, Journal of Public Economics, 84(3), 357-386 

The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence and Implications
with Emmanuel Saez
April 2002, Journal of Public Economics, 84(1), 1-33 

Insuring Consumption Against Illness
with Paul Gertler
March 2002, American Economic Review, 92(1), 51-70 

The Economics of Tobacco Regulation
March 2002, Health Affairs, 21(2), 146-162 

The Impact of the Tax System on Health Insurance Coverage
2002, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 1(3/4), 293-304 

Is Addiction Rational? Theory and Evidence
with Botond Koszegi
November 2001, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(4), 1261-1303 

The Wealth of the Unemployed
October 2001, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 55(1), 79-94 

Public Health Insurance and Medical Treatment The Equalizing Impact of the Medicaid Expansions
with Janet Currie
October 2001, Journal of Public Economics, 82(1), 63-89 

The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement
with David Cutler, Raymond Hartman, Mary Beth Landrum and Joseph P. Newhouse and Merideth Rosenthal
Winter 2002, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21(1), 1-19

Unemployment Insurance and Precautionary Savings
with Eric Engen
June 2001, Journal of Monetary Economics, 47(3), 545-579 

Tobacco at the Crossroads: The Past and Future of Smoking Regulation in the U.S.
Spring 2001, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(2), 193-212 

Youth Smoking in the 1990s: Why Did it Rise and What are the Long Run Implications?
May 2001, American Economic Review, 91(2), 85-90 

Disability Insurance Benefits and Labor Supply
December 2000, Journal of Political Economy, 108(6), 1162-1183 

Microsimulation Estimates of the Effects of Tax Subsidies for Health Insurance
National Tax Journal, 53 (3), Part I, September 2000, Pages 329-342 

Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd Out Spousal Labor Supply?
with Julie Cullen
July 2000, Journal of Labor Economics, 18(3), 546-572

Cash Welfare as a Consumption Smoothing Mechanism for Single Mothers
February 2000, Journal of Public Economics, 75(2), 157-182 

Tax Subsidies for Health Insurance: Costs and Benefits
with Larry Levitt
January 2000, Health Affairs, 19(1), 72-85 

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World
with David Wise
1999, Research in Labor Economics, 18, 1-40 

Public Health Insurance and Private Savings
with Aaron Yelowitz
December 1999, Journal of Political Economy, 107(6), 1249-1274 

Physician Fees and Procedure Intensity: The Case of Cesarean Delivery
with John Kim and Dina Mayzlin
August 1999, Journal of Health Economics, 18(4), 473-490

Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the Marginal Child?
with Philip Levine and Dough Staiger
February 1999, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(1), 263-292 

Unemployment Insurance, Consumption Smoothing, and Private Insurance: Evidence from the PSID and CEX
May 1998, Research In Employment Policy, 1, 3-32 

Social Security and Retirement: An International Comparison
and David Wise
May 1998, American Economic Review, 88(2), 158-163

Employment Separation and Health Insurance Coverage
with Brigitte Madrian
May 1998, Journal of Public Economics, 66(3), 349-382

Physician Fee Policy and Medicaid Program Costs
with Kathleen Adamns and Joseph Newhouse
Fall 1997, Journal of Human Resources, 32(4), 611-634 

Policy Watch: Medicaid and Uninsured Women and Children
Fall 1997, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(4), 199-208

Can Families Smooth Variable Earnings?
with Susan Dynarski
1997, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1, 229-305

The Incidence of Payroll Taxation: Evidence from Chile
July 1997, Journal of Labor Economics, 15 (3, Part 2), S72-S101 

Disability Insurance Rejection Rates and the Labor Supply of Older Workers
with Jeffrey Kubik
April 1997, Journal of Public Economics, 64(1), 1-23

The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance
March 1997, American Economic Review, 87(1), 192-205

Medicaid and Private Insurance: Evidence and Policy Implications
with David Cutler
January 1997, Health Affairs, 16(1), 194-200

Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women
with Janet Currie
January 1997, Journal of Political Economy, 104(6), 1263-1296

The Impact of Fundamental Tax Reform on Employer-Provided Health Insurance
with James Poterba
July 1996, The Insurance Tax Review, 11(1), 41-44 

Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical Care, and Child Health
with Janet Currie
May 1996, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 431-466

Does Public Insurance Crowd Out Private Insurance?
with David Cutler
May 1996, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 391-430

The Effect of Expanding the Medicaid Program on Public Insurance, Private Insurance, and Redistribution
with David Cutler
May 1996, American Economic Review, 86(2), 368-373

Physician Financial Incentives and the Diffusion of Cesarean Section Delivery
With Maria Owings
Spring 1996, RAND Journal of Economics, 27(1), 99-123

Health Insurance Availability and the Retirement Decision
with Brigitte Madrian
September 1995, American Economic Review, 85(4), 938-948

Physician Payments and Infant Mortality: Evidence From Medicaid Fee Policy
with Janet Currie and Michael Fischer
May 1995, American Economic Review, 85(2), 106-111

The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance: Evidence from Canada
with Maria Hanratty
April 1995, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 13(2), 163-174 

State Mandated Benefits and Employer Provided Insurance
November 1994, Journal of Public Economics, 55(3), 433-464 

Limited Insurance Portability and Job Mobility: The Effect of Public Policy on Job-Lock
with Brigitte Madrian
October 1994, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 48(1), 86-102

The Effect of Competitive Pressure on Charity: Hospital Responses to Price Shopping in California
July 1994, Journal of Health Economics, 13(2), 183-212 

Tax Incentives and the Decision to Purchase Health Insurance: Evidence from the Self-Employed
with James Poterba
August 1994, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109(3), 701-733

The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits
June 1994, American Economic Review, 84(3), 622-641

Taxation and the Structure of Labor Markets: The Case of Corporatism
with Lawrence Summers and Rodrigo Vergara
May 1994, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(2), 385-412

Other Publications

How Elastic is the Corporate Income Tax Base
in Alan Auerbach, James Hines and Joel Slemrod, eds., Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (with Joshua Rauh) 

Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty
in Alan Auerbach, David Card and John Quigley, eds., Public Policy and the Income Distribution. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006, p. 259-287 (with Gary Engelhardt)

Tax Policy for Health Insurance, forthcoming in James Poterba, ed.
Tax Policy and the Economy (also available as NBER Working Paper #10977, December 2004) 

"Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Fiscal Implications, Introduction and Summary," forthcoming in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, eds. The Fiscal Implications of Social Security Reform Around the World (with David Wise).

The Fiscal Implications of Social Security Reform in the U.S., forthcoming in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, eds.
The Fiscal Implications of Social Security Reform Around the World (with Courtney Coile)

The Fiscal Implications of Social Security Reform in Canada, forthcoming in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, eds.
The Fiscal Implications of Social Security Reform Around the World (with Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan) (also available as NBER Working Paper #9455)

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation - Introduction and Summary, in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, eds.
Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, Pages 1-40

The Effect of Social Security on Retirement in the United States, in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, eds.
Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, Pages 691-730 (with Courtney Coile)

Income Security Programs and Retirement in Canada, in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, eds.
Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, Pages 99-154 (with Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan)

Medicaid, forthcoming in Robert Moffitt, ed.
Means Tested Transfer Programs in the U.S. (also available as NBER Working Paper #7829, August 2000)

Covering the Uninsured: Incremental Policy Options for the U.S.
Huizhong Zhu, ed., The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms

Medicaid
2003, Robert Moffitt, ed., Means Tested Transfer Programs in the U.S. 

Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature, in Catherine McLaughlin, ed.
Health Policy and the Unisured. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, Pages 97-178 (with Brigitte Madrian) 

Taxes and Health Insurance, in James Poterba, ed.
Tax Policy and the Economy 16, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002, pages 37-66 

Health Policy in the Clinton Era: Once Bitten, Twice Shy, in Jeffrey Frankel and Peter Orszag, eds.
American Economic Policy During the 1990's. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Pages 825-874 (with David Cutler) 

An International Perspective on Policies for an Aging Society
Stuart Altman and David Schactman, eds., Policies for An Aging Society: Confronting the Economic and Political Challenges. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press

Different Approaches to Pension Reform from an Economic Point of View
forthcoming in Social Security Pension Reform in Europe, eds. Martin Feldstein and Horst Siebert.

Social Security Incentives for Retirement
forthcoming in David Wise, ed., Themes in the Economics of Aging (with Courtney Coile) 

Risky Behavior Among Youth: An Economic Analysis, Introduction
2001, Jonathan Gruber, ed., Risky Behavior Among Youth: An Economic Analysis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 1-28.

Youth Smoking in the U.S.: Evidence and Implications
with Jonathan Zinman
2001, Jonathan Gruber, ed., Risky Behavior Among Youth: An Economic Analysis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 69-120

Social Security and Retirement Around the World
with David Wise and David Wise
2001, Alan Auerbach and Ronald D Lee, eds., Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 159-190

Health Insurance and the Labor Market
in Joseph Newhouse and Anthony Culyer, eds.,
The Handbook of Health Economics. Amsterdam: North Holland, p. 645-706.

Payroll Taxation, Employer Mandates, and the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence, and Unanswered Questions
2000, Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States William T. Alpert and Stephen A. Woodbury, editors. Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute, p. 223-228.

Transitional Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage
October 2000, Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance report series Strategies to Expand Health Insurance for Working Families The Commonwealth Fund

Tax Subsidies for Health Insurance: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits
Report prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation
January 2000, (available at www.kff.org or as NBER Working Paper #7553)

What to do About the Social Security Earnings Test?
with Peter Orszag
1999, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Issue in Brief #1.

Social Security and Retirement in the U.S.
with Peter Diamond
1999, Social Security and Retirement Around the World, J. Gruber and D. Wise, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 437-474

Social Security and Retirement in Canada,
1999, Social Security and Retirement Around the World, J. Gruber and D. Wise, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 73-100

Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Introduction and Summary,
with David Wise
1999, Social Security and Retirement Around the World, J. Gruber and D. Wise, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1-36

Health Insurance for Poor Women and Children in the U.S.: Lessons from the Past Decade
1997, Tax Policy and the Economy 11, James Poterba, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 169-211.

Fundamental Tax Reform and Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Jonathon Gruber and James Poterba
1996, Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform, Henry J. Aaron and William G. Gale, eds., 125-170

Health Insurance and Early Retirement: Evidence from the Availability of Continuation Coverage
Jonathon Gruber and Brigitte Madrian
1996, Advances in the Economics of Aging, David Wise, ed., 115-143 

Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Jonathon Gruber and James Poterba
1996, Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation, Martin Feldstein and James Poterba, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 135-164 

A Major Risk Approach to Health Insurance Reform
Jonathon Gruber and Martin Feldstein
1995, Tax Policy and the Economy 9, James Poterba, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 103-130 

Unemployment Insurance, Consumption Smoothing, and Private Insurance: Evidence from the PSID and CEX
Jonathon Gruber
1995, Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation: Background Papers, Volume 1. Washington, DC: ACUC. 

Payroll Taxation in the United States: Assessing the Alternatives
Jonathon Gruber
October 1994, Enterprise Economics and Tax Reform Working Papers Volume III, Robert Shapiro, ed. Washington, D.C.: Progressive Foundation

The Incidence of Mandated Employer-Provided Insurance: Lessons from Workers' Compensation Insurance
Jonathon Gruber and Alan Krueger
1991, Policy and the Economy 5, David Bradford, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 111-143

Risky Behavior Among Youth: An Economic Analysis
2001, editor; Chicago: University of Chicago Press 

Review Essays

Review of Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century: Right and Wrong Approaches to Reform,
C. Eugene Stuerle and Jon M. Bakija
March 1995, National Tax Journal

Review of Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond, ed. by Martin Strosberg, Industrial & Labor Relations Review
July 1993

Discussion of Brigitte Madrian, "The Effect of Health Insurance on Retirement" in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
1994

Discussion of Arnold Harberger "Tax Lore for Budding Reformers" in R. Dornbusch and S. Edwards, eds, Reform, Recovery, and Growth
1994, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Insurance or Self-Insurance? Variation, Persistence, and Individual Health Accounts
1998, Discussion of Matthew J. Eichner, Mark B. McClellan, and David A. Wise in Inquiries in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 56-59

What is Technological Change?
1998, Discussion of David M. Cutler and Mark B. McClellan in Inquiries in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 78-81

Edited Volumes

Review of Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century: Right and Wrong Approaches to Reform
C. Eugene Stuerle and Jon M. Bakija
March 1995, National Tax Journal, 47(1), 159-163

Tax Lore for Budding Reformers
1994, Discussion of Arnold Harberger in R. Dornbusch and S. Edwards, eds, Reform, Recovery, and Growth, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

The Effect of Health Insurance on Retirement
1994, Discussion of Brigitte Madrian in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1, 241-247.

Review of Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond
July 1993, ed. by Martin Strosberg, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 46(4), 727-729.

Risky Behavior Among Youth: An Economic Analysis
2001, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 

Social Security and Retirement Around the World
with David Wise
1999, Chicago: University of Chicago Press