The Health and Wealth of a Nation: Employer-Based Health insurance and the Affordable Care Act

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193 Author Nan L. Maxwell is a senior researcher in the Oakland, California, office of Mathematica Policy Research. She was formerly a professor and chair of the Department of Economics and the executive director of the Human Investment Research and Education (HIRE) Center at California State University, East Bay. Her research expertise focuses on the areas of improving employment and educational opportunities for disadvantaged workers and at-risk youth, easing the transition from school to work, assessing the impact of basic skills on labor market opportunities, and evaluating alternative educational strategies . She has published over 35 journal articles or book chapters in the areas of labor market operations and human capital, demographic influences on labor market outcomes, and educational policies and strategies. She has authored three previous books, Income Inequality in the United States, 1947–1985 (Greenwood Press, 1990), High School Career Academies: A Pathway to Educational Reform in Urban Schools? (with Victor Rubin, W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2000), and The Working Life: The Labor Market for Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs (W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2006). Maxwell earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Texas, a master of science and a master of labor and human resources degree from Ohio State University, and a PhD in economics from Florida State University . As a visiting scholar, she spent three years at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and one year at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, both at the University of California, Berkeley. She has also held a visiting professorship at the Academy of National Economy in Moscow and was a visiting research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. . ...