The Jacobson Lab focuses on how health care policies affect well-being. Much of Jacobson’s work focuses on the supply-side of health care markets, analyzing the effects of direct supply changes, for example hospital closures, on access to care and the impact of reimbursement policy on treatment and outcomes, specifically in the oncology market. Other work focuses on the demand side, assessing the risk-protective value of health insurance for consumers. In addition to being an associate professor at the Leonard Davis School, Jacobson is the co-director of the program on aging at USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Economics and Policy and a research associate in the health care program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Mireille Jacobson, PhD

Associate Professor of Gerontology

Email: mireillj@usc.edu

Focus Areas

Applied Microeconomics

Health Economics and Policy

Economics of Aging

Projects

  • Study testing both remote and in-person approaches to increase the diversity of participants in a brain health registry
  • Study testing approaches to increase COVID-19 booster vaccination rates
  • Analysis of differences in health care use for persons with dementia in traditional Medicare versus Medicare Advantage

Recent Publications

  1. Batista-Malat, E, Yan, M, Wilber, KH et al.. Exploring Staffing Levels in Adult Day Services: Does Profit Status Matter?. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2024; :.
  2. Zissimopoulos, JM, Joyce, GF, Jacobson, M et al.. Trends in Incident Dementia Diagnosis Before and After Medicare Risk Adjustment.. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6 (12):e2347708.
  3. Fennell, G, Jacobson, M, Grol-Prokopczyk, H et al.. Predictors of Multiwave Opioid Use Among Older American Adults.. Innov Aging. 2023;7 (10):igad068.
  4. Horn, DM, Jacobson, M, Alpert, AE et al.. Why Does the Inflation Reduction Act Exclude Expensive Cancer Treatments in Price Negotiations?. JCO Oncol Pract. 2024;20 (2):254-261.
  5. Jacobson, M, Ferido, P, Zissimopoulos, J et al.. Health care utilization before and after a dementia diagnosis in Medicare Advantage versus traditional Medicare.. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023; :.
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