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Researcher Detail

Helen Levy
Survey Research Center, School of Public Health & Gerald Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan

Helen Levy is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, and an Assistant Research Scientist in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Levy is a labor and health economist whose research focuses on health insurance, with special attention to the causes and consequences of not having coverage. Before coming to the University of Michigan Levy was an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California at Berkeley.  Levy holds a BA from Yale in mathematics and history and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.



Associated Research Projects
 
UM09-14:  Economic hardship among the elderly: How important is failure to take up public programs?
UM08-Q3:  Obstacles to Saving Among Economically Vulnerable Women
UM08-15:  How Do Low-Income Families Think about Retirement?
UM07-06:  Extra Help: Take-up of the Social Security Administration’s Low-Income Subsidy Program for Part D of Medicare in 2006.