Contributions to Public Health
- Long-term Care and the Direct Care Workforce: There is a workforce crisis in long-term care, with workers facing low wages and poor working conditions. My research examines the direct care workforce serving older adults and people with disabilities, focusing on policy factors that affect job quality and access to care. I find that while Medicaid coverage for home-based care has grown, workforce growth has lagged. Additionally, immigration enforcement reduces worker supply and decreases access to care for older adults.
- Kreider AR, Werner RM. Immigration Enforcement, the Supply of Home Care Workers, and Access to Long-Term Care: Evidence from Secure Communities. SSRN Working Paper. 1 April 2025.
- Miller KEM, Coe NB, Kreider AR, Hoffman A, Rhode K, Gonalons-Pons P. Increasing Expenditures on Home- and Community-Based Services: Do Home Care Workers Benefit? Health Services Research. 18 Oct 2024. 60(S2): e14399.
- Rohde K, Coe NB, Gonalons-Pons P, Miller K, Kreider AR, Hoffman AK. Addressing Problems with Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services in the Age of Rebalancing. Health Affairs. 7 Oct 2024. 43(10): 1438-1447.
- Kreider AR, Werner RM. The Home Care Workforce Has Not Kept Pace with Growth in Home and Community-Based Services. Health Affairs. May 2023. 42(5): 650-657.
- Access to Specialty Care in Medicaid: Medicaid coverage is increasingly outsourced to private Medicaid managed care (MMC) plans. Without policy intervention, private plans may limit specialist access to avoid attracting sick enrollees. My research examines how MMC plans' economic incentives affect provider network coverage of specialist physicians and cancer centers. I find that plans face strong disincentives to include cancer hospitals and certain specialists, such as oncologists, in their provider networks. For this research, I was awarded a Program Chair Award at the 2024 ASHEcon meetings.
- Kreider AR, Layton TJ, Shepard M, Wallace J. Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices: Evidence from Medicaid. Journal of Health Economics. 1 Sep 2024. 97: 102901.
- Kreider AR. Essays on Adverse Selection and Access to Specialty Care in Medicaid [dissertation]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University; 2021.
Education
May 2009 | The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA | BS, Economics and BA, French and Francophone Studies
November 2021 | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | PhD, Health Policy - Economics Track
June 2024 | Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Health Economics
