Recent Work

Rhee, Nari: Lessons from California, Connecticut, and Oregon: How Plan Design Considerations Shape the Financial Feasibility of State Auto-IRAs, 2017

Rhee, Nari: Proposed Congressional Repeal of Federal Regulations Supporting State Auto-IRAs Threatens Retirement Security of 13 Million Workers in Five States, 2017

Rhee, Nari: Teacher Pensions vs. 401(k)s: Part 1 — Look at the Whole Workforce, Not Just New Entrants, 2017

Rhee, Nari: Teacher Pensions vs. 401(k)s: Part 2 — A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush, 2017

Siemons, Rachel; Lucia, Laurel: Californians with Employer-Sponsored Insurance would Lose Protections under ACA Repeal, 2017

Siemons, Rachel; Lucia, Laurel; Jacobs, Ken: California’s Self-Employed and Small Business Employees Experienced Large Health Coverage Gains under ACA, 2017

Thomason, Sarah; Bernhardt, Annette: California’s Homecare Crisis: Raising Wages is Key to the Solution, 2017

Baki, Mohammad; Rhee, Nari: California Secure Choice: Market Analysis, Feasibility Study, and Program Design Consultant Services, 2016

Brown, Jennifer Erin; Rhee, Nari; Saad-Lessler, Joelle; Oakley, Diane: Shortchanged in Retirement: Continuing Challenges to Women’s Financial Future, 2016

Castellblanch, Ramón: Specialty Drug Prices and the Medi-Cal Program, 2016

Dietz, Miranda; Lucia, Laurel; Kominski, Gerald F; Jacobs, Ken: ACA Repeal in California: Who Stands to Lose?, 2016

Dietz, Miranda; Pourat, Nadereh; Hadler, Max W.; Lucia, Laurel; Roby, Dylan H.; Jacobs, Ken: Affordability and Eligibility Barriers Remain for California’s Uninsured, 2016

Dietz, Miranda; Jacobs, Ken; Lucia, Laurel: Hundreds of Thousands of Californians could Gain Health Insurance if Supreme Court Upholds Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration, 2016

Dietz, Miranda; Graham-Squire, Dave; Becker, Tara; Chen, Xiao; Lucia, Laurel; Jacobs, Ken: Preliminary Regional Remaining Uninsured 2017 Data Book, California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) version 2.0, 2016

Dietz, Miranda; Jacobs, Ken; Lucia, Laurel: Supreme Court ruling could be a boon for uninsured immigrant families, 2016

Dietz, Miranda: Taking Stock: Californians’ Insurance Take-Up Under the Affordable Care Act, 2016

Dietz, Miranda; Pourat, Nadereh; Hadler, Max W.; Lucia, Laurel; Roby, Dylan H.; Jacobs, Ken: Who Had Medi-Cal and Who Remained Uninsured in the First Year of Expansion?, 2016

Hinkley, Sara; Bernhardt, Annette; Thomason, Sarah: Race to the Bottom: How Low‐Road Subcontracting Affects Working Conditions in California’s Property Services Industry, 2016

Jacobs, Ken; Perry, Ian Eve: $15 Minimum Wage in California: Who Would be Affected by the Proposal to Raise California’s Minimum Wage?, 2016

Jacobs, Ken; Perla, Zohar; Perry, Ian Eve; Graham-Squire, Dave: Producing Poverty: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Production Jobs in Manufacturing, 2016

Jacobs, Ken; Perry, Ian Eve; MacGillvary, Jenifer: The Public Cost of Low Wages in New York, 2016

Jones, Betony; Philips, Peter; Zabin, Carol: The Link Between Good Jobs and a Low Carbon Future, 2016

Lucia, Laurel; Jacobs, Ken: California’s Projected Economic Losses under ACA Repeal, 2016

Lucia, Laurel; Chen, Xiao; Jacobs, Ken; Pourat, Nadereh: Health Insurance and Demographics of California Immigrants Eligible for Deferred Action, 2016

Lucia, Laurel: How Do We Make Special Enrollment Periods Work?, 2016

Rhee, Nari; Fornia, William B.: Are California Teachers Better off with a Pension or a 401(k)?, 2016

Rhee, Nari: An Important Step Toward Solving California’s Retirement Crisis, 2016

Rhee, Nari: Most California Teachers Working Today Are Here for the Long Haul — and Better Off with a DB Pension, 2016

Rojas, Denisse; Dietz, Miranda: Providing Health Care to Undocumented Residents: Program details and lessons learned from three California county health programs, 2016

Scott, Megan Emiko; Zabin, Carol: Training for the Future II, 2016

Thomason, Sarah; Bernhardt, Annette: Estimating the Cost of Raising Child Care Workers’ Wages for State Subsidy Programs: A Methodology Applied to California’s New State Minimum Wage Law, 2016

Zabin, Carol; Martin, Abigail; Morello-Frosch, Rachel; Pastor, Manuel; Sadd, Jim: Advancing Equity in California Climate Policy: A New Social Contract for Low-Carbon Transition, 2016

Bernhardt, Annette: Low-wage jobs are California’s Achilles’ heel, 2015

Boivie, Ilana; Rhee, Nari: The Continuing Retirement Savings Crisis, 2015

Dietz, Miranda: Are California Employers Cutting Hours to Avoid Providing Health Benefits?, 2015

Dietz, Miranda: Are California Employers Dropping Health Insurance for Part-Time Workers?, 2015

Dietz, Miranda: Are California Employers Dropping Spousal Coverage or Limiting Eligibility for Health Insurance?, 2015

Dietz, Miranda: Fewer uninsured in California; significant declines for low-income Californians and part-time workers, 2015

Ebner, Nina; Rhee, Nari: Aging California’s Retirement Crisis: State and Local Indicators, 2015

Flores, Mary June: Covered California should Expand Strategies to Enroll Californians in Health Insurance when they Undergo Life and Work Transitions, 2015

Flores, Mary June; Lucia, Laurel: Maximizing Health Insurance Enrollment through Covered California during Work and Life Transitions, 2015

Jacobs, Ken; Perry, Ian Eve; MacGilvary, Jenifer: The High Public Cost of Low Wages, 2015

Jones, Betony; Zabin, Carol: Are Solar Energy Jobs Good Jobs?, 2015

Jones, Betony; Luke, Nikki: Comments on the Clean Energy Incentive Program, 2015

Jones, Betony: Creating Opportunities for Good Jobs in Distributed Solar, 2015

Jones, Betony; Philips, Peter; Zabin, Carol: Job Impacts of California’s Existing and Proposed Renewables Portfolio Standard, 2015

Koonse, Tia; Dietz, Miranda; Bernhardt, Annette: Enforcing City Minimum Wage Laws in California: Best Practices and City-State Partnerships, 2015

Lucia, Laurel: The ACA Excise Tax is not a Progressive Tax Policy, 2015

Lucia, Laurel: The ACA Excise Tax Targets Where You Live and Other Factors More than Benefit Levels, 2015

Lucia, Laurel: The ACA Excise Tax will Promote Cost Shift to Workers not Cost-Effectiveness, 2015