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Bush School of Government and Public Service

# overview
Dr. Laura Dague is an associate professor in the Public Service and Administration department in the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. At Texas A&M she also holds affiliations with the Department of Economics, the Department of Health Policy and Management, the Center for Health Systems & Design, and the Institute of Data Science. She earned a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her doctoral fields of study were public economics and labor economics. She is a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Financial Security and a Research Associate in the NBER's Economics of Health program, as well as an invited researcher at J-PAL, an associate editor at the Journal of Health Economics, and on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law.

Dr. Dague's research interests are in health economics, particularly the economics of public health insurance. The majority of her work focuses on the Medicaid program and uses quasi-experimental econometric analyses informed by economic theory to study the causal effects of Medicaid policies. In current projects, she is studying the implications of COVID-era Medicaid policies (including continuous coverage and its unwinding as well as telehealth related policies), and how Medicaid can influence health care use, employment and reincarceration for those recently released from prison. She is also leading the evaluation of Wisconsin's Medicaid 1115 waiver, funded by the State of Wisconsin. Dr. Dague also studies the economic impacts of access to paid leave particularly for people with disabilities or chronic health conditions and their families. Her work has been published in journals that include the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, JAMA Health Forum, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and the Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law.

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Medicaid, Texas, Expansion, County, Fiscal Impact

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8.3 Policy, Ethics, And Research Governance

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8.1 Organisation And Delivery Of Services

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Medicaid, Marketplace, Health Insurance, Pandemic, Covid, Maintenance Of Eligibility, Texas

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States)

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University of Kansas - (Lawrence, Kansas, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].field
Mathematics and Economics, with Highest Distinction

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University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States)

# publications[].label
Wisconsin experience indicates that expanding public insurance to low-income childless adults has health care impacts.

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The effects of expanding public insurance to rural low-income childless adults.

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The role of paid family leave in labor supply responses to a spouse's disability or health shock.

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County-Level Projections of Medicaid Expansions Impact in Texas

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Pandemic-era changes to medicaid enrollment and funding: Implications for future policy and research

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What fraction of Medicaid enrollees have private insurance coverage at the time of enrollment? Estimates from administrative data.

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The effect of expanding Medicaid eligibility on Supplemental Security Income program participation

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What Happens to Texans Insurance Coverage When Medicaid and Marketplace Pandemic-Era Policies End?

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In-Kind Welfare Benefits and Reincarceration Risk: Evidence from Medicaid

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Trends in Medicaid Enrollment and Disenrollment During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Wisconsin.

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Association Between Assistance With Medicaid Enrollment and Use of Health Care After Incarceration Among Adults With a History of Substance Use.

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The Effects of Medicaid Coverage on Post-Incarceration Employment and Recidivism

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Effects of Medicaid Expansions 2001-2015 on Supplemental Security Income Program Participation Among Childless Adults

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Health and Healthcare Access for Essential, Nonessential, and Nonworkers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus reform: impact on low-income families' enrollment and retention in public coverage.

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Causal Inference Methods: Lessons from Applied Microeconomics

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The effect of Medicaid premiums on enrollment: a regression discontinuity approach.

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Trends in Engagement With Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Among Medicaid Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Implementing parity for mental health and substance use treatment in Medicaid.

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The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply

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Wisconsin's experience with Medicaid auto-enrollment: lessons for other states.

# publications[].publisher
Office of Research, Development and Information (ORDI)

# publications[].label
Medicaid Expansion And State Trends In Supplemental Security Income Program Participation.

# publications[].label
Medicaid Waiver Dataset: Coverage for Childless Adults and Parents, 1996  2014. Version 2.0.

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The Line between Medicaid and Marketplace: Coverage Effects from Wisconsin's Partial Expansion.

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How Does Telehealth Expansion Change Access to Healthcare for Patients With Different Types of Substance Use Disorders?

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Financial burden and medication adherence among near-poor older adults in a pharmaceutical assistance program.

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The Welfare Effects of Banning Risk-Rated Pricing in Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from Chile

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Access to Care Among Individuals Who Experienced Medicaid Lockouts After Premium Nonpayment.

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Trends in a State Pharmaceutical Assistance Program for Low-income Older Adults in Wisconsin.

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Public Service And Administration; 4220 TAMU

# organizations[]
Bush School of Government and Public Service

# schools[]
Bush School of Government and Public Service

# inTheNews[].label
Bush School study estimates impact of Medicaid expansion in Texas