Lara Shore-Sheppard

Associate Professor of Economics

Office: Seeley 8
Webpage: http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~lshore/
E-mail: lara.d.shore-sheppard@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2226
Fax: (413) 597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
Fernald House
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

Princeton University, Ph.D., Economics, 1996
Princeton University, M.A., Economics, 1993
Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, Economics and Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1991

Fields of Specialization

Health economics
labor economics
poverty and welfare policy
wage distribution

Research

Publications and Working Papers

“Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation?” with John Ham, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 58, no. 3, April 2005, pp. 452-470.

“The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Private Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP,” with John Ham, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 89, no. 1, January 2005, pp. 57-83.

“Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low Income Children,” with David Card, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 86, no. 3, August 2004, pp. 752-766.

“The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from a Comparison of Matched Records,” with David Card and Andrew Hildreth, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, vol. 22, no. 4, October 2004, pp. 410-420.

“Expanding Public Health Insurance for Children: Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program,” in Changing Welfare, Rachel A. Gordon and Herbert J. Walberg, eds., New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

“Industrial Change and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the Steel Industry,” with Patricia Beeson and Kathryn Shaw, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 54, no.2A, 2001, pp. 466-483.

“The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on the Distribution of Children's Health Insurance Coverage,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 54, no. 1, October 2000, pp. 59-77.

"Medicaid and Crowding Out of Private Insurance: A Re-examination Using Firm-Level Data," with Thomas Buchmueller and Gail Jensen, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 19, No. 1 January 2000, pp. 61-91.

"Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance Coverage," submitted to Journal of Human Resources, revision requested.

"Estimating Dynamic Models of Children's Health Insurance Coverage," with John Ham, mimeograph, Ohio State University, June 2003.

"The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Employment Transitions," with John Ham, mimeograph, Williams College, January 2001.

"The Effect of Local Fiscal Policies on Urban Wage Structure," with Patricia Beeson and Christopher Briem, mimeograph, University of Pittsburgh, July 2000.

Other

Selected Work Experience

Faculty Research Fellow
National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Affiliate
Northwestern University-University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research
Visiting Scholar
Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago, 1999-2000
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Pittsburgh, 1996-2000