Sarah Miller

Miller received her BS in Economics from Tulane University in 2006, and her PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois in 2012, where she was a student of Darren Lubotsky, Dan Bernhardt, Jeffrey Brown, and Robert Kaestner.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Miller CV |url=https://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/CV/mille.pdf?v=20231103&_gl=1*1xc3cpj*_gcl_au*MjAwMDE5MTE4NS4xNjk5MDM3Nzkx&_ga=2.66927404.329088479.1699037792-1356697890.1694799332 |website=University of Michigan Ross School of Business}}

After completing her PhD, Miller joined the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy. In 2014, she became an assistant professor at the Ross School of Business, gaining tenure in 2022.

In addition to her academic appointments, Miller is co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics,{{Cite web |title=Editorial board – Journal of Public Economics {{!}} ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-public-economics/about/editorial-board |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=www.sciencedirect.com}} and an associate editor at the Journal of Health Economics.{{Cite web |title=Editorial board – Journal of Health Economics {{!}} ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-health-economics/about/editorial-board |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=www.sciencedirect.com}} She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Miller |url=https://www.nber.org/people/sarah_miller |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=NBER |language=en}} In 2022, Miller received the ASHEcon medal, awarded by the American Society of Health Economists to the best health economist under the age of 40.

Miller is married to Andres Hagemann, an econometrician and assistant professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.{{Cite web |title=Andreas Hagemann {{!}} Michigan Ross |url=https://michiganross.umich.edu/faculty-research/faculty/andreas-hagemann |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=michiganross.umich.edu |language=en}}

In work with Maya Rossin-Slater, Laura Wherry, Petra Persson, Gloria Aldana, and Kate Kennedy-Moulton, Miller leverages administrative data from California to examine inequalities in infant mortality across the income distribution.{{Cite report |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30693 |title=Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data |last1=Kennedy-Moulton |first1=Kate |last2=Miller |first2=Sarah |date=November 2022 |publisher=National Bureau of Economic Research |location=Cambridge, MA |last3=Persson |first3=Petra |last4=Rossin-Slater |first4=Maya |last5=Wherry |first5=Laura |last6=Aldana |first6=Gloria|doi=10.3386/w30693 |hdl=10419/272372 |hdl-access=free }} She finds that the incidence of pre-term births increases at higher incomes, but that mortality falls as income rises.{{Cite news |last1=Kliff |first1=Sarah |last2=Miller |first2=Claire Cain |last3=Buchanan |first3=Larry |date=2023-02-12 |title=Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They're Rich, Expansive Study Finds |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/12/upshot/child-maternal-mortality-rich-poor.html |access-date=2023-11-03 |issn=0362-4331}}

Miller also shows that infant mortality in black families systematically exceeds that of white families, with infants born to black women at the top of the income distribution dying at higher rates than white women at the bottom of the income distribution.

Miller has also written several papers on the impacts of health insurance expansions, particularly the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions. In a paper with Laura Wherry and Norman Johnson in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Miller shows that after the onset of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions, near elderly mortality fell in expansion relative to non-expansion states,{{Cite web |last=Golshan |first=Tara |date=2019-07-23 |title=Study: the US could have averted about 15,600 deaths if every state expanded Medicaid |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/23/20703776/medicaid-expansion-obamacare-health-care-2020 |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=Vox |language=en}} with results driven by disease-related deaths.{{Cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Sarah |last2=Johnson |first2=Norman |last3=Wherry |first3=Laura |date=2021-01-30 |title=Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence From Linked Survey and Administrative Data |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab004 |journal=Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=136 |issue=3 |pages=1783–1829|doi=10.1093/qje/qjab004 }} Their results suggest that states' decisions not to expand Medicaid led to 15,600 excess deaths per year among those ages 55–64.{{Cite web |last=Yglesias |first=Matthew |date=2019-10-29 |title=Health care is on the ballot in state elections starting next week |url=https://www.vox.com/2019/10/29/20936096/medicaid-kentucky-louisiana-virginia-mississippi |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=Vox |language=en}}

In related work published in the Journal of Public Economics,{{Cite journal |last1=Hu |first1=Luojia |last2=Kaestner |first2=Robert |last3=Mazumder |first3=Bhashkar |last4=Miller |first4=Sarah |last5=Wong |first5=Ashley |date=2018-07-01 |title=The effect of the affordable care act Medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing |journal=Journal of Public Economics |volume=163 |pages=99–112 |doi=10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.04.009 |issn=0047-2727 |pmc=6208351 |pmid=30393411}} Miller and co-authors also show that the ACA Medicaid expansions improved the financial health of their beneficiaries, reducing the number and size of unpaid non-medical bills.{{Cite web |date=2016-08-22 |title=Medicaid expansion under Obamacare has improved financial health of low-income Americans |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/medicaid-expansion-obamacare-improved-overall-financial-health |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=PBS NewsHour |language=en-us}}

In work with Chloe East, Laura Wherry, and Marianne Page published in the American Economic Review,{{Cite journal |last1=East |first1=Chloe N. |last2=Miller |first2=Sarah |last3=Page |first3=Marianne |last4=Wherry |first4=Laura R. |date=2023-01-01 |title=Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health |journal=American Economic Review |language=en |volume=113 |issue=1 |pages=98–135 |doi=10.1257/aer.20210937 |issn=0002-8282 |pmc=10168672 |pmid=37168104}} Miller shows that the grandchildren of low-income pregnant women who became Medicaid beneficiaries in the 1980s were less likely to have low birth weight than their non-insured counterparts.{{Cite web |last=Yglesias |first=Matthew |date=2018-04-10 |title=The Bell Curve isn't about science, it's about policy. And it's wrong. |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17182692/bell-curve-charles-murray-policy-wrong |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=Vox |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Leubsdorf |first=Ben |date=2017-09-25 |title=The Benefits of Early Childhood Education and Health Programs May Last Longer Than a Lifetime |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-benefits-of-early-childhood-education-and-health-programs-may-last-longer-than-a-lifetime-1506353194 |access-date=2023-11-03 |issn=0099-9660}}

With Eva Vivalt, David Broockman, Alex Bartik, and Elizabeth Rhodes, Miller is a principal investigator on Y Combinator's universal basic income experiment,{{Cite web |title=Our Plan {{!}} Basic Income {{!}} OpenResearch |url=https://www.openresearchlab.org/basic-income/info/our-plan |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=www.openresearchlab.org}} in which unconditional cash transfers of $1,000 per month will be delivered to over 1,000 study participants across two states.{{Cite web |title=Y Combinator's $60 million basic-income experiment will begin next year |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/28/140557/y-combinators-60-million-basic-income-experiment-will-begin-next-year/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Hu |first1=Luojia |last2=Kaestner |first2=Robert |last3=Mazumder |first3=Bhashkar |last4=Miller |first4=Sarah |last5=Wong |first5=Ashley |date=2018-07-01 |title=The effect of the affordable care act Medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing |url= |journal=Journal of Public Economics |volume=163 |pages=99–112 |doi=10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.04.009 |issn=0047-2727 |pmc=6208351 |pmid=30393411}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Sarah |last2=Wherry |first2=Laura R. |date=2019-07-01 |title=The Long-Term Effects of Early Life Medicaid Coverage |url=https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/54/3/785 |journal=Journal of Human Resources |language=en |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=785–824 |doi=10.3368/jhr.54.3.0816.8173R1 |issn=0022-166X|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Sarah |last2=Johnson |first2=Norman |last3=Wherry |first3=Laura R |date=2021-01-30 |title=Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence From Linked Survey and Administrative Data |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab004 |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=136 |issue=3 |pages=1783–1829 |doi=10.1093/qje/qjab004 |issn=0033-5533}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=East |first1=Chloe N. |last2=Miller |first2=Sarah |last3=Page |first3=Marianne |last4=Wherry |first4=Laura R. |date=January 2023 |title=Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health |journal=American Economic Review |language=en |volume=113 |issue=1 |pages=98–135 |doi=10.1257/aer.20210937 |issn=0002-8282 |pmc=10168672 |pmid=37168104}}

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