Dahai Yue
Dahai Yue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. His overall research focuses on social determinants of health and health policy evaluation. His current research examines the impacts of homelessness, childhood environments, and public health insurance on healthcare utilization and mortality. These ongoing studies apply natural and quasi-experimental study designs with large datasets, including Medicaid administrative data and the Census. He is the Principal Investigator of two NIH research grants and has published extensively in leading journals such as Health Affairs, Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, and Health Services Research.
Departments/Units
- Department of Health Policy and Management
- Center on Aging
Areas of Interest
Core FacultyPhD, Health Policy and Management (Economics cognate), 2020
University of California, Los Angeles
HLSA 775 Health Services and Policy Research Methods
HLSA 725 Econometrics in Public Health
Five Selected Publications (Full Publications: Google Scholar, My Bibliography)
Yue, D., Ponce, NA., Ettner, SL., Needleman, J., Lleras-Muney, A. Increased Schooling Reduces Hospitalization Later in Life: New Evidence with Optimal Instruments from the United States. American Journal of Health Economics. Forthcoming. (Full Text)
Lleras-Muney, A., Price, J., Yue, D. (2022). The Association Between Educational Attainment and Longevity Using Individual-Level Data from the 1940 Census. Journal of Health Economics, 81: 102649. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102649.
Yue, D., Pourat, N., Essien, E. A., Chen, X., Zhou, W., & O'Masta, B. (2022). Differential Associations of Homelessness with Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. Health Services Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.14009
Yue, D., Pourat, N., Chen, X., Lu, C., Zhou, W., Daniel, M., Hoang, H., Sripipatana, A., Ponce, N. A. (2019). Enabling Services Improve Access To Care, Preventive Services, And Satisfaction Among Health Center Patients. Health Affairs, 38(9), 1468-1474. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05228.
Yue, D., Rasmussen, P. W., & Ponce, N. A. (2018). Racial/Ethnic Differential Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Health Care Access. Health Services Research, 53(5), 3640-3656. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.12834. Top 20 downloaded articles in Health Services Research, 2017-2018.