Christine Eibner, an economist at RAND, received her Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Maryland in 2001. Her current research addresses trends in the availability
and affordability of private health insurance, socioeconomic inequalities in health, and
military medical policy. She recently completed two studies for the U.S. Department of
Labor analyzing the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on
small businesses and enrollment in health insurance exchanges. In addition, Dr. Eibner is
currently co-Principal Investigator of an NIH-funded study that is analyzing how
community characteristics including low socio-economic status, racial segregation, and
aspects of the local health care delivery system affect women’s development of coronary
heart disease. Dr. Eibner has expertise in economic modeling and cost analysis, and was
the lead author on a recent study analyzing options for containing health care costs in
Massachusetts. Prior to joining RAND, she was an intern at the Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), and a
post-doctoral research associate at Princeton University.

Articles

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Modeling Health Care Policy Alternatives (with Jeanne S. Ringel, Federico Girosi, Amado Cordova, and Elizabeth A. McGlynn), Health Services Research (2010)
 

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The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workers' Health Insurance Coverage (with Peter S. Hussey and Federico Girosi), New England Journal of Medicine (2010)
 

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Controlling US Healthcare Spending: Separating Promising from Unpromising Approaches (with Peter S. Hussey, M. Susan Ridgely, and Elizabeth A. McGlynn), New England Journal of Medicine (2009)
 

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Older Workers Access to Employer-Sponsored Retiree Health Insurance, 2000-2006 (with Alice M. Zawacki and Elaine M. Zimmerman), Journal of Labor Research (2009)
 

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Employers' Health Insurance Cost Burden: 1996-2005 (with M. Susan Marquis), Monthly Labor Review (2008)

Data from the Employment Cost Index show that health insurance costs relative to payroll increased...

 

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