Faculty Profile

Helen Levy

Helen Levy, PhD

  • Research Professor, Health Management and Policy
  • Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
  • Research Professor, Ford School of Public Policy

Dr. Levy is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before coming to the University of Michigan she was an Assistant Professor at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2010-2011, Dr. Levy served as a Senior Economist to the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC.

  • PhD, Economics, Princeton University, 1998
  • BA, Mathematics and History, Yale University, 1991

Dr. Levy's research interests include the causes and consequences of lacking health insurance, evaluation of public health insurance programs, and material hardship among older Americans. She is a Co-Investigator on the Health and Retirement Study, a long-running longitudinal study of health and economic dynamics at older ages.

1.      Buchmueller, Thomas C., and Helen Levy. 2025. “The Impact of Health Insurance on Mortality.” Annual Review of Public Health 46:541-550

2.      Johnson, David S., Helen Levy, Jordan Matsudaira, Barbara L. Wolfe, and James P. Ziliak. 2024. “Measuring Poverty: Advances to the Supplemental Poverty Measure.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 711(1): 20-37

3.      Barcellos, Silvia, Mireille Jacobson, and Helen G. Levy. 2023. “The Impact of Eligibility for Medicaid versus Subsidized Private Health Insurance on Medical Spending, Self-Reported Health, and Public Program Participation.” American Journal of Health Economics 9(2): 262-295

4.      Levy, Helen. “The Long‐Run Prevalence of Food Insufficiency among Older Americans.” 2022. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2022: 1-16

5.      Buchmueller, Thomas C., Helen Levy, and Robert G. Valletta. 2021. “Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed.” Journal of Labor Economics 39 (S2): S575-S617

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Address:
Institute for Social Research
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor MI 48104