APARNA SONI CONTACT INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS EDUCATION RESEARCH

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1 CONTACT INFORMATION APARNA SONI Kelley School of Business 1310 East Tenth Street Office: Hodge Hall 7400 Phone: (508) Website: RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS Primary Fields: Health economics, Health policy Secondary Fields: Applied microeconomics, Causal inference EDUCATION Ph.D. in Business Economics and Public Policy,, 2019 (expected) Dissertation: How Individuals and Firms Respond to Incentives: Applications in Health Care Committee: Jeffrey Prince, Kosali Simon, Haizhen Lin, Daniel Sacks M.A. in Economics, Boston University, 2011 Graduated with Highest Honors (summa cum laude) B.A. in Economics and Journalism, Boston University, 2011 Graduated with Highest Honors (summa cum laude) Awarded Trustee Scholarship for academic excellence RESEARCH Peer-Reviewed Publications Simon, Kosali, Aparna Soni, & John Cawley. (2017). The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the First Two Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 36(2), Soni, Aparna, Marguerite Burns, Laura Dague, & Kosali Simon. (2017). Medicaid Expansion Status and State Trends in Supplemental Security Income Program Participation. Health Affairs, forthcoming. Soni, Aparna, Michael Hendryx, & Kosali Simon. (2017). Medicaid Expansions under the Affordable Care Act and Insurance Coverage in Rural and Urban Areas. Journal of Rural Health, 33(2), Working Papers Soni, Aparna, Lindsay Sabik, Kosali Simon, & Benjamin Sommers. Changes in Insurance Coverage Among Cancer Patients After the Affordable Care Act. (under review) Soni, 1 of 5

2 Soni, Aparna, Kosali Simon, John Cawley, & Lindsay Sabik. Effects of ACA Insurance Expansions on Cancer Diagnoses. (under review) Hollingsworth, Alex, Aparna Soni, Aaron Carroll, John Cawley, & Kosali Simon. Gains in Health Insurance Coverage Explain Variation in Democratic Vote Share in the 2016 Presidential Election. Soni, Aparna, Michael Hendryx, & Kosali Simon. The Impact of the Tennessee Medicaid Disenrollment on Rural vs. Urban Populations: An ACA Presage? Works in Progress Insurance Market Consolidation and Health Insurance Premiums (with Haizhen Lin) Effects of Expanded Insurance Coverage Options on Insurance Status for Self-Employed Individuals (with Sandra Decker & Asako Moriya) Conference Presentations 2017 Impacts of the ACA Insurance Expansions on Cancer Diagnoses Academy Health Annual Research Meeting 2017 The Impact of Medicaid Disenrollment on Racial, Geographic, and Gender Disparities in Access to Care and Self-Assessed Health: Evidence from Tennessee 2017 Effects of Expanded Insurance Coverage Options on Insurance Status for Self- Employed Individuals (poster) 2017 The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Supplemental Security Income Program Participation American Society of Health Economists Conference 2016 The Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansion on Health Behaviors (poster) IU/VU/UL Health Economics and Policy Workshop 2016 The Impact of Public Health Insurance Expansions on Purchases of Over-the- Counter Medications Seminar Presentations Kelley School of Business, 2017 The Effects of State Alcohol Policies on Alcohol Purchases 2016 Does Insurance Status Affect Consumer Purchases? 2016 Demand for Health Care under Deductibles: It's All in the Timing School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2017 Effects of Public Insurance Expansions on Cancer Diagnoses Soni, 2 of 5

3 2017 Effects of Expanded Insurance Coverage Options on Insurance Status for Self- Employed Individuals 2016 The Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Supplemental Security Income Program Participation 2016 The Impact of Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the 2014 Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions Doctoral Student Association, 2016 The Impact of Public Health Insurance Expansions on Purchases of Over-the- Counter Medications Research Assistance 2017 National Bureau of Economic Research, Disability Research Center RA for Kosali Simon, Bradley Heim, and Kathleen Mullen's NBER-funded project on Impact of Affordable Care Act on Social Security Disability Benefits 2016 National Bureau of Economic Research, Retirement Research Center RA for Kosali Simon and Bradley Heim's NBER-funded project on Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Retirement RA for Professor Kosali Simon (School of Public and Environmental Affairs) RA for Professor Haizhen Lin (Business Economics and Public Policy) 2011 Boston University RA for Professor Peter Doeringer (Department of Economics) TEACHING Sole Instructor G300: Intro to Managerial Economics; Teaching Assistant 2016 G350: Business Econometrics; G202: Business, Government, and Society; ACADEMIC SERVICE University Service 2017 Mentor for summer health research scholars program Student coordinator for weekly health policy workshop 2016 Textbook Proofreading for Managerial Economics and Business Strategy, 9th edition, by Michael Baye and Jeffrey Prince (2016) Referee Soni, 3 of 5

4 Journals: Journal of Health Economics; Journal of Rural Health; World Medical and Health Policy Conferences: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (2017) Conference Discussant 2017 Gains in Coverage, Access, and Utilization of Care in 2014 Among Those Uninsured in 2013, by Sandra Decker and Salam Abdus 2017 Does Medicaid Expansion Affect Employment Transitions?, by Erkmen Giray Aslim HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2017 Doctoral Student Research Productivity Award, ($3,700) 2017 Doctoral Research Travel Award, ($750) 2017 Panschar Teaching Award Finalist, 2016 Doctoral Student Research Productivity Award, ($3,700) 2016 Travel Award, IU Graduate and Professional Student Government ($500) 2016 Panschar Teaching Award Nominee, 2016 Clements & Clements Scholarship Essay Contest Winner ($1,000) Legacy Scholarship, Boston University ($4,000) Trustee Scholar, Boston University ($148,694) NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Economist, IHS Global Insight, Lexington, MA 2010 Analyst, U.S. International Trade Commission, Washington, DC OTHER Professional Affiliations Academy Health American Economic Association American Society of Health Economists Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Midwest Economic Association Conferences Attended Academy Health Annual Research Meeting (2017) American Economic Association Meeting (2015, 2017) Soni, 4 of 5

5 American Society of Health Economists Conference (2016) Annual Health Economics Conference (2016) Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (2017) (2017) Congress (2017) IU/VU/UL Health Economics and Policy Workshop (2015, 2016) Medicaid Evaluation Workshop (2015, 2016) Midwest Health Economics Conference (2016) NBER Disability & Retirement Research Consortium (2016) Software: Stata, R, Python (web scraping), High performance computing, Unix, Excel VBA, LaTeX Datasets: Nielsen Household Consumer Panel, Nielsen Retail Market Scanner, BRFSS, ACS, MEPS, MarketScan, SSA Administrative Data, Form 5500 Tax Data, SEER Cancer Diagnoses Languages: English (native), Hindi (fluent), French (proficient) Citizenship: USA REFERENCES Professor Kosali Simon Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor School of Public and Environmental Affairs 1315 East Tenth Street (Room 443) (812) Professor Jeffrey Prince Chairperson, Department of Business Economics & Public Policy Kelley School of Business 1309 East Tenth Street (Room 3080) (812) Soni, 5 of 5