Dahai Yue
Dahai Yue is a health economist and assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. His research focuses on deploying medical knowledge, economic theories, and rigorous methods to understand better how social factors (e.g., education and housing) shape health and healthcare-seeking behaviors and evaluate the impacts of public programs (e.g., health insurance expansion). The overarching goal of his research is to improve healthcare efficiency and reduce health disparities. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and featured in top journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and Health Services Research.
Departments/Units
- Department of Health Policy and Management
- Center on Aging
Areas of Interest
Core FacultyHealth Equity; Health Economics; Health Services Research; Social Determinants of Health
PhD, Health Policy and Management (Economics cognate), 2020
University of California, Los Angeles
HLSA 775 Health Services and Policy Research Methods
HLSA 776 Advanced Empirical Methods in Health Services Research
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.
Pourat, N., Yue, D., Chen, X., Zhou, W., O’Masta B. (2023). Easy to Use and Validated Predictive Models to Identify Beneficiaries Experiencing Homelessness in Medicaid Administrative Data. Health Services Research. doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14143.
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., Ettner, SL., Needleman, J., Ponce NA. (2022). Selective Mortality and Nonresponse in the Health and Retirement Study: Implications for Health Services and Policy Research. Online First, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10742-022-00290-y.
Sehgal, N., Yue, D., Pope, E.,* Wang, R. H.*, Roby, D. H. (2022). The association between COVID-19 mortality and county-level partisan divide in the United States. Health Affairs, 41(6): 853-863.
Yue, D., Chen, X., Zhu, Y., Macinko, J., Meng, Q. (2022). Reductions in Under-Five Mortality and Public Health Improvements of the China Healthy Cities (Counties) Initiative: A Nationwide Quasi-Experimental Study. BMJ Global Health, 7(3): e007154. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007154.
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.