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Professor Anne Royalty
Graduate Academic Advisor

Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 1993
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983



Office: CA 509D
Phone: 317.278.0449
royalty@iupui.edu

Professor Royalty has a variety of research interests which center around labor economics, health economics, and applied microeconomics. Her research agenda is focused on where those fields intersect and interact. Topics include non-wage benefits people receive, the value they place on the benefits they receive, and whether this results in inequality in compensation.

Recently published work examines the effect of income tax rates on the provision of employer-provided health insurance. Another analyzes how the health plan choices of workers is influenced by the income tax rate they pay. This work may shed additional light on the possible effects of the managed competition proposals in the on-going debate on health care reform. Professor Royalty’s current work involves studying whether the effect of higher minimum wages on the issue of fringe benefits is a potentially important consequence, perhaps unintended, of legislation to aid low-wage workers by raising the minimum wage.

Selected Publications:

• “Estimating Workers' Marginal Valuation of Employer Health Benefits: Would Insured Workers Prefer More Health Insurance or Higher Wages?” forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics.
• “Health Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes: Joint Decision-Making within Households” with Jean Abraham, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 90 (8-9):1561-1577.
• “The Effect of Premiums on the Decision to Participate in Health Insurance and Other Fringe Benefits Offered by the Employer: Evidence from a Real-World Experiment,” Journal of Health Economics, January 2005, pp. 95-112.
• “Does Having Two Earners in the Household Matter for Understanding How Well Employer- Based Health Insurance Works?” (with Jean Abraham), Medical Care Research and Review, April 2005, pp. 167-186.
• “Medicaid Policy, Physician Behavior, and Health Care for the Low-Income Population,” with Laurence Baker, Journal of Human Resources, 480-502, Summer 2000.
• “Tax Preferences for Fringe Benefits and Workers' Eligibility for Employer Health Insurance,” Journal of Public Economics, 209-227, February 2000.
• “Health Plan Choice: Price Elasticities in a Managed Competition Setting,” with Neil Solomon, Journal of Human Resources, 1-41, Winter 1999.
• “Job-to-Job and Job-to-Nonemployment Turnover by Gender and Education Level,” Journal of Labor Economics, 392-443, April 1998.
• “The Effects of Job Turnover on the Training of Men and Women,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 506-521, April 1996.