Melissa Powell McInerney E-mail: melissa.mcinerney@tufts.edu Tufts University Office: Braker 304 8 Upper Campus Road Tel: (617) 627-6653 Medford, MA 02155 EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, Tufts University 2014- Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary 2008-2014 Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, 2008 M.P.P. Education, Social, and Family Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, 2002 B.A. Mathematics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 1998 FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics PUBLICATIONS Physician Responses to Rising Local Unemployment Rates: Hospital Care Provision to Medicare and Privately-Insured Patients. Accepted for publication at Journal of Health Economics (with Jennifer Mellor and Daifeng He), December 2014. What Determines Employer Accommodation of Injured Workers? The Importance of Employer Workers Compensation Costs, State Policies, and Case-Specific Characteristics. 2014. Accepted for publication at Industrial and Labor Relations Review. (with Erin Bronchetti) The Importance of Cost of Living and Education in Estimates of the Conditional Wage Gap Between Black and White Women. 2014. Journal of Human Resources. (with Peter McHenry) Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash. 2013. Journal of Health Economics, 32(6): 1090-1104. (with Jennifer Mellor and Lauren Hersch Nicholas) State Unemployment During Recessions from 1991-2009 Was Linked to Faster Growth in Medicare Spending. 2012. Health Affairs, 31(11): 2464-2473. (with Jennifer Mellor) Recessions and Seniors Health, Health Behaviors, and Healthcare Use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. 2012. Journal of Health Economics 31: 744-751. (with Jennifer Mellor) 1
Revisiting Incentive Effects in Workers Compensation: Do Higher Benefits Really Induce More Claims? 2012. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 65(2), pp. 288-315. (with Erin Bronchetti) State Workers Compensation Program Reforms and Social Security Disability Receipt. 2012. Industrial Relations 51(1): 57-88. (with Kosali Simon) Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks. 2011. Journal of Labor Economics, 29(4): 659-695. (with Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark) Comment: Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics Ph.D. Programs. 2011. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 101(3): 191-192. Privatizing Public Services and Strategic Behavior: The Impact of Incentives to Reduce Workers Compensation Claim Duration. 2010. Journal of Public Economics, 94(9-10): 777-789. Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States. 2010. Annales d Economie et de Statistique/Annals of Economics and Statistics, 99/100: 141-167. (with Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark) Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch? 2008. Journal of Urban Economics, 64(2) 464-479. (with Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark) Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data, in Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till von Wachter, eds. The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, 2008 (University of Chicago Press). (with Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark) WORKING PAPERS Updated Estimates of Hispanic-White Wage Gaps for Women, Under review, College of William and Mary, 2014. (with Peter McHenry) Does Increased Access to Health Insurance Impact Claims for Workers Compensation? Evidence from Massachusetts Health Care Reform 2014. (with Erin Todd Bronchetti) Recessions and the Health of Older Adults: Do Effects Differ by Race and Ethnicity (with Jennifer Mellor and Lauren Hersch Nicholas), April 2014. The Medicaid Buy-In and the Employment and Earnings of Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Working Paper (CRR WP 2013-20). October 2013. The Impact of Vocational Rehabilitation on the Likelihood an Injured Worker Returns to Work, mimeo, College of William and Mary, 2012. Are Recessions Bad for Workplace Safety? Recent Evidence from the U.S., mimeo, College of William and Mary (with Kosali Simon) 2012. The Impact of Workers Compensation Cash Benefit Levels on Claim Incidence in the 1990s, mimeo, University of Maryland, 2008. WORK IN PROGRESS 2
The Effect of State Economic Conditions and State Insurance Expansions on Medicare Beneficiaries (with Jennifer Mellor and Lindsay Sabik) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS Principal Investigator, Examining Differences by Ethnicity in the Propensity to File for Workers Compensation Insurance. Department of Labor Scholars program. 2015. Co-Principal Investigator, Do Hispanic Workers Face Wage Penalties in the U.S. Labor Market? Funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early Career Research Grant program. 2013. Principal Investigator, The Medicaid Buy-In and the Employment, Earnings, and Out of Pocket Medical Expenditures of Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries. Funded by the Steven H. Sandell Grant Program (funded by the Social Security Administration) sponsored by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. May 2012 to September 2013. Co-Principal Investigator, Consequences of the Great Recession on Health and Health-Related Outcomes, with Jennifer M. Mellor and Lauren Hersch Nicholas. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation Great Recession Initiative. January 2012 to June 2013. NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Statistician, Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census, 2003-2008. Training Specialist, Covenant House New York, New York, NY, 1999-2000. Catastrophe Risk Analyst, E.W. Blanch Company, Minneapolis, MN, 1998-1999. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Econometrics (undergraduate) Public Economics (undergraduate) Economics of Policy-Making at the State and Local Level (MPP) Benefit-Cost Analysis (MPP) Regression Methods for Policy Analysis (MPP) Principles of Microeconomics (undergraduate) PRESENTATIONS 2014: Tufts University, University of Maryland at College Park, Northeastern University, Emory University 2013: Cornell University, Bryn Mawr College, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, 2012: American Economic Association Allied Statistical Sciences Association Meetings, N.C. State, University of Richmond 2011: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, Population Association of America Meetings, Southern Economic Association Meetings 2010: Southern Economic Association Meetings, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings 3
2009: Western Economic Association Meetings 2008: Southern Economic Association Meetings, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, Western Economic Association Meetings, Georgia State University, University of Delaware, College of William and Mary, Mount Holyoke College, Trinity College, College of the Holy Cross, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Rutgers University Newark, Urban Institute, U.S. Census Bureau 2007: Census Research Data Center Annual Conference 2006: Southern Economic Association Meetings, Workers Compensation Research Group, Workers Compensation Research Institute AWARDS AND HONORS Class of 1953 Term Distinguished Associate Professor, College of William and Mary, 2014 Alumni Fellowship Award, College of William and Mary, 2014 Summer Research Grant, College of William and Mary, 2010. Reves Center Faculty International Travel Grant, College of William and Mary, 2009. Matthews Summer Research Grant, College of William and Mary, 2009 Economic Club of Washington, DC Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2007 John Jones Scholar Award, Workers Compensation Research Institute, 2006 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Referee: Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, JAMA, Health Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Demography, Economics of Education Review, Southern Economic Journal, Economic Inquiry, Contemporary Economic Policy, Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Spatial Economic Analysis, Urban Studies, Criminology CeMent Workshop for Junior Faculty, 2011. Honors Examiner, Swarthmore College, 2010. Department and Program: Member, Economics Faculty Search Committee, 2014-2015 Member, Curriculum Committee, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 Member, Economics Faculty Search Committee, 2010-2011, 2013-2014 Member, Glenn and Goble Award Selection Committee, 2010-2011, 2013-2014 Member, Barry Award Selection Committee, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013 Member, Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy Governing Board, 2008-2013 Member, Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy Admissions Committee, 2012-2013 College: Chair, Faculty Compensation Board, 2013-14 Member, Faculty University Priorities Committee, Spring 2014 Member, COLL 400 Working Group, Spring 2014 Member, Truman Scholarship Selection Committee, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 New student advising, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2013-2014 4
Charles Center Summer Scholarship Selection Committee, 2011-2012, 2012-2013 Participant, WISE Program (The Women in Scientific Education Initiative) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Economics Association Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Population Association of America Southern Economic Association 5