Research & Interest

Arleen Leibowitz is Professor of Policy Studies in the UCLA School of Public Policy and Chair of the Department of Policy Studies. She is a consultant to RAND. Dr. Leibowitz has conducted research in health economics and labor economics since obtaining her Ph.D. in Economics at Columbia University in 1972.

Dr. Leibowitz's work in health policy examines how economic incentives affect the demand for health care by patients and how changing the incentives alters the costs of public programs that pay for health care. She designed and led a study of the use of health care by Medicaid recipients in prepaid plans and in the FFS sector and was the principal investigator in a study carried out for the State of California to plan for an evaluation of the effect of Medi-Cal managed care on California's public health system.

Dr. Leibowitz's current research focuses on two areas: the cost of treating HIV infection in the United States and the cost and use of mental health care for children. She is using data from HIV Cost Services Utilization Study, which Dr. Leibowitz participated in collecting, to examine the effect of financing changes, such as the increase in managed care, on the use and cost of health services for people living with HIV. She also heads the Policy Core of the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services, where her work focuses on sexual risk-taking and HIV testing. Using primary data on children accessing mental health services in Los Angeles County, Dr. Leibowitz is exploring the relationship between the type of managed care and the cost and use of mental health care for children.

Selected Publications

• Lee, M., Leibowitz, A.A., Rotheram-Borus, M.J. Cost-Effectiveness of a Behavioral Intervention for Seropositive Youth. AIDS Education and Prevention. Forthcoming.
  
• Leibowitz, A.A. An Economic Perspective On Work, Family and Well-being in Work, Family, Health and Well-Being, S. Bianchi , ed. Forthcoming.
  
• Goldman, D.P., Leibowitz, A.A., Robalino, D.A. (2004). Employee Responses to Health Insurance Premium Increases. The American Journal of Managed Care, 10(1), 41-47.
  
• Goldman, D.P., Leibowitz, A.A., Joyce, G.F., Fleishman, J.A., Bozzette , S.A. , Duan, N., Shapiro, M.F. (2003). Insurance Status of HIV-Infected Adults in the Post-HAART Era: Evidence from the United States . Applied Health Economics and Health; Policy, 2(2), 85-90.
  
• Leibowitz, A.A.. In-Home Training and the Production of Children’s Human Capital. (2003) Review of Economics of the Household, 305-317.
  
• Goldman, D.P., Bhattacharya, J., McCaffrey, D.F., Duan, N., Leibowitz , A.A., Joyce, G., Morton , S.C. (2001). The Effect of Insurance on Mortality in an HIV+ Population in Care. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96(455), 883-894.
  
• Bozzette, S.A,, Joyce, G., McCaffrey, D.F., Goldman, D.P., Leibowitz, A.A., Morton , S.C. , Rastigar, A., Shapiro, M.F., Timberlake, D. (2001). Expenditures for the Care of HIV-Infected Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy. New England Journal of Medicine , 344(11), 817-823.
  
• Goldman, D.P., Bhattacharya, J., Leibowitz A.A., Joyce, G.F., Shapiro, M.F., Bozzette , S.A. (2001) The Impact of State Policy on the Costs of HIV Infection . Medical Care Research and Review, 58(1), 31-53.
  
• Klerman, J., Leibowitz, A.. (1999) Job Continuity Among New Mothers. Demography. 36, 2145-156. Nominated for Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research as the best research paper published in 1999.
  
• Goldman, D., Leibowitz , A., Buchanan, J.L. (1998) Cost Containment and Adverse Selection in Medicaid HMOs. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93(441), 54-62.