Publications and other Research Products

Card David, Dobkin Carlos, Maestas Nicole. The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare. American Economic Review 2008. Dec; 98(5):2242-2258. PMCID: PMC2600774. Link.

Card David, Dobkin Carlos, Maestas Nicole. Does Medicare Save Lives? Quarterly Journal of Economics 2009. 124(2):597-636. PMCID: PMC2777733. Link.

Maestas Nicole. Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement. Journal of Human Resources 2010. 45(3):718-748.  PMCID: PMC4004604. Link. Press Coverage in The New York Times, The Seattle Times.

Maestas Nicole, Zissimopoulous Julie. How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging. Journal of Economic Perspectives 2010. 24(1):139-160. PMCID: PMC4151111. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Gaillot Sarah J. An Outcome Evaluation of the Success for Kids Program. Rand Health Q. 2012 Spring;2(1):4. eCollection 2012 Spring. PMCID: PMC4945286. Full Technical Report.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Zamarro Gema. Research Designs for Estimating Induced Entry into the SSDI Program Resulting from a Benefit Offset. Report prepared for the Social Security Administration. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, TR908, 2010. Link.

Atella Vincenzo, Brunetti Marianna, Maestas Nicole. Household Portfolio Choices, Health Status and Health Care Systems: A Cross Country Analysis Based on SHARE. Journal of Banking and Finance. 2012. 36(5):1320-1335. PMCID: PMC3718569. Link.

Goldman Dana, Maestas Nicole. Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice. Journal of Applied Econometrics 2013. 28(4):527-550. PMCID: PMC3757955. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Strand Alexander. Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt. American Economic Review 2013. 103(5): 1797-1829. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Strand Alexander. Disability Insurance and Health Insurance Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 2014. 104(5): 329-335. PMID: 29533564. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Strand Alexander. Disability Insurance and the Great Recession. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 2015. 105(5):177-82. PMCID: PMC4545664. Link

Hill Matt, Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J.  Employer Accommodation and Labor Supply of Disabled Workers.  Labour Economics 2016. 41: 291-303. PMCID: PMC5104281. Link.

Coile Courtney C, Maestas Nicole.  The Value of the Health and Retirement Study for Health Economics Research. Forum Health Econ Policy 2017. 21(1). PMID: 30210051. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, and Jeffrey B. Wenger, Working Conditions in the United States: Results of the 2015 American Working Conditions Survey. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017. Link. Press Coverage in WRVO Public Media, Sputnik International, Medical Daily,  WGBH, NPR Health, Fortune, Marketplace, USA Today, Bloomberg, Syracuse.com, The Seattle Times.

Maestas Nicole. “Expanding Access to Paid Time Off to Support Caregiving” in Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Ryan Nunn, Eds. The 51%: Driving Growth through Women’s Economic Participation. The Hamilton Project, Brookings Institution. 2017. Link.

Maestas Nicole. “The Return to Work and Women’s Employment Decisions” in Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, Eds. Women Working Longer: Facts and Some Explanations. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. 2018. Link. Press Coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, The Seattle Times, NerdWallet, Sputnik International, Medical Daily, Syracuse.com, Fortune, MoneyPopulation Reference Bureau, PBS Newshour.

McGarry Brian, Maestas Nicole, Grabowski David. Simplifying the Medicare Plan Finder Tool Could Help Older Adults Choose Lower Cost Part D Plans. Health Affairs 2018. 37(8): 1290-1297. PMCID: PMC6417418. Link. Press Coverage in AdvisoryBoard, USNewsPBS, Health Affairs Blog.

Sherry Tisamarie, Sabety Adrienne, Maestas Nicole. Documented Pain Diagnoses in Adults Prescribed Opioids: Results from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2006-2015. Annals of Internal Medicine 2018. 18;169(12):892-894. PMCID: PMC6296869. Link. Analytical Code. [Altmetric Attention Score in Top 5%]. Press Coverage in The Boston Globe, NBC, CNN, PBS NewsHour, The Harvard Crimson, USA Today.

Sherry Tisamarie, Sabety Adrienne, Maestas Nicole.  Documented Pain Diagnoses in Adults Prescribed Opioids (Reply). Annals of Internal Medicine. 2019 Aug 20;171(4):307-308. doi: 10.7326/L19-0215. PMID: 31426073. Link.

Bazarian J, Blazer DG, Bogner J, Fitzpatrick AL, Harrison TC, Harvey PD, Hernan M, Hsia RY, Maestas Nicole, McKenzie J, Mullen KJ, Nguyen LA, Osbahr AJ, Schulman KA, Seabury S, Taylor DH. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination. Committee on Health Care Utilization and Adults with Disabilities, Board of Health Care Services, Health and Medical Division, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Washington, DC: 2018 Mar 1. PMID: 29782136. DOI: 10.17226/24969. Link.

Zhu Wenjia, Chernew Michael, Sherry Tisamarie, Maestas Nicole. Initial Opioid Prescriptions among U.S. Commercially Insured Patients, 2012–2017. New England Journal of Medicine 2019. 380:1043-52. PMCID: PMC6487883. Link. Analytical Code. Press Coverage in Time, Reuters, The Harvard Gazette, U.S. News and World Report, PBS NewsHour. Gizmodo, KFGO, Pain News Network, The American Journal of Managed Care, MedicalResearch.com, PRNewswire, UPI, Longevity, Health IT Analytics.

Zhu Wenjia, Sherry Tisamarie B, Maestas Nicole. Initial Opioid Prescriptions among U.S. Patients, 2012-2017 (Reply). New England Journal of Medicine. 2019; 380(26):2588. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1905100. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1905100. PMCID: PMC7440691. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Rennane Stephanie. Unmet Need for Workplace Accommodation. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 2019 Fall; 38(4): 1004–1027. Published online 2019 May 16. doi: 10.1002/pam.22148. PMCID: PMC6874222. LinkAnalytical Code.

Maestas Nicole, Jetsupphasuk Michael. “What do older workers want?” in Bloom, D (eds), Live Long and Prosper? The Economics of Ageing Populations, CEPR Press. 2019. Link.

Maestas Nicole. Identifying Work Capacity and Promoting Work: A Strategy for Modernizing the SSDI Program.  The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Volume: 686 issue: 1, page(s): 93-120. Article first published online: November 6, 2019. Link. PMCID: PMC7384754.

Autor David, Maestas Nicole, Woodbury Richard. Disability Policy, Program Enrollment, Work, and Wellbeing among People with Disabilities. Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 80 No. 1, 2020. Link

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Rennane Stephanie. Absenteeism and Presenteeism among American Workers. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 2021;32(1):13-23. Link

Maestas Nicole. America in Pain, the Nation’s Wellbeing at Stake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 19 October 2020. 117 (43) 26559-26561.

Sabety Adrienne, Sherry Tisamarie, Maestas Nicole. Opioid use in older adults and Medicare Part D. Health Service Research. 2021 Apr; 56(2): 289–298. PMID: 33462819. PMC7968937. Link. Analytical Code.

Berger Benjamin, Lopez-Garcia Italo, Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen. “The Link between Health and Working Longer: Differences in Work Capacity.” In Can’t Work, Can’t Retire: America’s Aging Workforce. Eds. Lisa Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale. Oxford University Press. 2022. Link.

Maestas, Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Strand Alexander. The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Disability Insurance Program: Evidence from the Great RecessionJournal of Public Economics. Volume 199, July 2021, 104410. Link. Squared Away Blog

Layton Timothy, Prinz Daniel, Maestas Nicole, Vabson Boris. Private v. Public Provision of Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicaid. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 2022 14(4):397-431.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen, Powell David. The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth. NBER Working Paper # 22452. 2016 (revised 2022). Forthcoming American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. Press Coverage in The CT Mirror, Detroit Free Press, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Australian Financial Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Vox, MarketWatch.

Ne’eman Ari, Maestas, Nicole. How Has COVID-19 Impacted Disability Employment? NBER Working Paper #30640. 2022. Forthcoming The Disability and Health JournalLink. NPR Marketplace.

Maestas Nicole, Sherry Tisamarie, Strand, Alexander. Opioid Use Among Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants, 2013-2018. Journal of Disability Policy Studies 2022,101429. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen, Powell David, von Wachter Till, Wenger Jeffrey. The Value of Working Conditions in the United States. American Economic Review 2023, 113.7 (2023): 2007-2047. Link.

Abrams Leah, Friedman Kevin, Maestas, Nicole. The role of physical and cognitive/emotional functioning in the association between common health conditions and working. 2023. Social Science & Medicine, 322 (2023): 115816

Maestas Nicole, Messel Matt, Truskinovsky Yulya. Caregiving and Labor Force Participation: New Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Journal of Labor Economics, Accepted. Squared Away Blog. Link.

Working papers

Autor David, Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Strand Alexander. Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants. NBER Working Paper #20840. 2015. Revise & Resubmit Review of Economic Studies. Link.  

Lopez-Garcia, Italo, Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen. Latent Work Capacity and Retirement Expectations. University of Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) Working Paper; MRDRC WP 2019-400. 2019 [Preprint] https://mrdrc.isr.umich.edu/publications/papers/pdf/wp400.pdf.

Lopez-Garcia, Italo, Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen. The Changing Nature of Work and Work Capacity. University of Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) Working Paper; MRDRC WP 2019-400. 2019 [Preprint]. Link

Hoynes Hilary, Maestas Nicole, Strand Alexander. Legal Representation in Disability Claims. NBER Working Paper #29871. 2022. Link

Maestas Nicole, Sherry Tisamarie. Opioid Treatment for Pain and Work and Disability Outcomes: Evidence from Health Care Providers’ Prescribing Patterns. NBER Center Paper NB19-28-2. Link.

Balestra Simone, Liebert Helge, Maestas Nicole, Sherry Tisamarie. Patient and Prescriber Responses to Supply-Side Drug Policy During the Opioid Epidemic. NBER Working Paper #29596. Under Review. Link.

Anderson Michael, Dobkin Carlos, Maestas Nicole, Rose Liam. Health Insurance and Access to Care for the Near Elderly. Mimeo 2023.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J. Economic Conditions, the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession, and Implications for Disability Insurance in the United States. Wharton Pension Research Council Working Papers 733, University of Pennsylvania. Link.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Ravesteijn Bastian. Applying Aspects of Disability Determination Methods from the Netherlands in the U.S. NBER Center Paper NB21-08. 2021. Link.
 

Papers in Preparation

Lurie Ithai, Maestas Nicole, Miller Corbin, Prinz Daniel. Employers and Disability Insurance: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns. Mimeo 2019.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Ravesteijn Bastian, Sherry, Tisamarie B. The Burden of Functional Limitations in the United States Workforce.

 

Resting Papers

Maestas, Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, and David Powell, The Effect of Local Labor Demand Conditions on the Labor Supply Outcomes of Older Americans. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2013. Link. Press Coverage in The Wall Street Journal.

Hill, Matthew, Nicole Maestas, and Kathleen J. Mullen, Source of Health Insurance Coverage and Employment Survival Among Newly Disabled Workers: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2014. Link.

Card David, Maestas Nicole. Labor Market Shocks and Early Social Security Benefit Claiming. MRRC Working Paper 2014-317. December 2014. Revise & Resubmit Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Link.

Sherry Tisamarie, Stein Bradley, Sabety Adrienne, Smart Rosanna, Maestas, Nicole. Opioids Without Pain? Documentation of the Clinical Rationale for Opioid Analgesics Prescribed to Adolescents and Young Adults, 2006-2015. Mimeo 2020.

McGarry Brian, Grabowski David, Maestas Nicole. The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupted the Delivery of In-Home Care for Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Impeded Communication with Family Members for Older Adults Residing in Care Facilities. Mimeo 2021.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Powell David, von Wachter Till, Wenger Jeffrey. The Relationship Between Working Conditions and Health in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Mimeo 2018.

Maestas NicoleMullen Kathleen J., Powell David, Prinz Daniel, von Wachter Till, Wenger Jeffrey. Inequality and Working Conditions. Mimeo. 2017.

Gutierrez Italo, Hochfellner Daniela, Maestas Nicole. Technological Change and Employment of Older Workers. Mimeo 2017; updated 2019.

Maestas Nicole, Prinz Daniel, Ravesteijn Bastian. Employers and Disability Insurance: Evidence from the Netherlands. Mimeo 2018.

Maestas Nicole. Discouraged Workers? Job Search Outcomes of Older Americans. Paper in progress.

Maestas Nicole, Zhu Wenjia. Burnout and the Retirement Decision. Paper in progress.

Zhu Wenjia, Maestas Nicole. The Effect of Initial Opioid Duration on Long-Term Opioid Use: Evidence from Dentists. Mimeo 2019.