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Yonatan Ben-Shalom
Senior Researcher
Yonatan Ben-Shalom is a senior researcher at Mathematica. Since joining Mathematica in 2009, his work has focused primarily on longitudinal analyses of disability programs sponsored by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the evaluation of access to care under the TRICARE health insurance program for the Department of Defense (DOD). He has extensive experience working with administrative data, including files from SSA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and survey data such as the Current Population Survey and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Currently, Ben-Shalom is principal investigator for two studies conducted under the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The first study examines data and statistics about working-age participants in federal disability programs; the second examines the time use of working-age people with disabilities. He also leads the data analysis, writing, and production of annual reports of findings from the TRICARE Standard Survey of Beneficiaries and Civilian Providers and the Health Care Survey of U.S. DOD Beneficiaries. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- SSA disability programs
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Access to care
- Disability Statistics and Demographics Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
- Employment Policy and Measurement Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
- TRICARE Standard Survey of Beneficiaries and Civilian Providers
- Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, American Economic Association
- Reviewer, Disability and Health Journal, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- “Trends in the Composition and Outcomes of Young Social Security Disability Awardees” (June 2013)
- "Return-to-Work Outcomes Among Social Security Disability Insurance Program Beneficiaries" (June 2013)
- “An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States” in The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty (2012)