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 American Journal of Health Economics, 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
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.