Joelle Abramowitz

Joelle Abramowitz is an Associate Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center within the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Her work focuses on applied microeconomics, health economics, and labor economics, examining how policies influence individual wellbeing and major life decisions.

• University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research
• Survey Research Center
• Co-Director, Michigan Federal Statistical Research Data Center

Her research integrates machine learning methodologies with large-scale datasets, including Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Census Bureau data. Key areas include employer-sponsored health insurance, medical out-of-pocket expenditures, and intersections between aging, retirement, and economic security.

Notable collaborations include the CenHRS project, which links HRS with employer data to study employment and health insurance trends among older adults. Her work has been featured in media outlets like HuffPost and The Economist.

Recent publications analyze self-employment dynamics, paid family leave impacts, and diabetes drug costs. Methodologies emphasize data linkage, probabilistic record matching, and narrative text classification tools like C-NARS/P.

• Ph.D. in Economics (2013), University of Washington