Dr. Salkever’s current research projects include 1) specifying and estimating econometric models of transitions from private long-term disability benefits to SSDI for those suffering from a mental disorder; 2) financing of care for the severely mentally ill; and 3) developing national estimates of the impact of occupational injuries and illnesses on Social Security Disability Insurance.

Dr. Salkever also serves as a technical advisor for the Maryland Citizens Health Initiative to study the feasibility of a Universal Health Plan for the State. He has researched extensively the impacts of pharmaceutical pricing and the cost impacts of hospital treatments and insurance plans.

Health Policy and Management, Economic impacts, econometric models, mental health disability benefits, mental health insurance.

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1965-66

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1967-68

Harvard University Scholarship, 1966-67

U.S.P.H.S. Traineeship Grant, 1968-70

Delta Omega

Georgescu-Roegen Prize in Economics, 1992-93

Domino, Marisa Elena and Salkever, David. “Price Elasticity and Pharmaceutical Selection: The Influence of Managed Care,” Health Economics, forthcoming.

Salkever, David S. “Tickets Without Takers? Potential Economic Barriers to the Supply of Rehabilitation Services to Beneficiaries with Mental Disorders,” in Bell and Rupp (eds.), Paying for Results in Vocational Rehabilitation: Will Provider Incentives Work for Ticket to Work?, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, forthcoming.

Slade, Eric and Salkever, David. “Symptom Effects on Employment in a Structural Model of Mental Illness and Treatment: Analysis of Patients with Schizophrenia,” Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Vol. 4, (2001), pp. 25-34.

Salkever, David S.; Shinogle, Judith A.; Purushothaman, Mohankumar. “Employer Disability Management Strategies and Other Predictors of Injury Claims Rates and Costs: Analysis of Employment-Based Long Term Disability Insurance Claims,” Journal of Safety Research, Vol. 32, (2001), pp. 157-185.

Salkever, David S., Shinogle, Judith A. and Purushothaman, Mohankumar. “Employers’ Disability Management Activities: Descriptors and an Exploratory Test of the Financial Incentives Hypothesis,” Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, Vol. 10, No. 3, (2000), pp. 199-214.

Salkever, David S.; and Shinogle, Judith A. “Empirical Evidence on the Demand for Carve-Outs in Employment Group Mental Health Coverage,” The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Vol. 3, (2000) pp. 83-95.

Salkever, David S. "Activity Status, Life Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity for Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities,” Journal of Rehabilitation, Vol. 66, No. 3, (Jul/Aug/Sep 2000), pp. 4-13.

Salkever, David S.; Goldman, Howard; Purushothaman, Mohankumar; and Shinogle, Judith. "Disability Management, Employee Health and Fringe Benefits, and Long-Term Disability Claims for Mental Disorders: An Empirical Exploration,” Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 1, (March, 2000), pp. 79-113.

Salkever, David S. and Sorkin, Alan (eds.). Research in Human Capital and Development, Volume XIII: The Economics of Disability. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, (2000).

Salkever, David S.; Shinogle, Judith A.; and Purushothaman, Mohankumar. "Empirical Models of Employees' Disabilities Due to Injury: Return-To-Work Outcome and Claims Duration Under Private Long-Term Disability Insurance," in D. Salkever and A. Sorkin (eds.), Research in Human Capital and Development, Volume XIII, The Economics of Disability, Stamford, CT: JAI Press, (2000).

Salkever, David S. and Domino, Marisa Elena. “Within Group ‘Structural’ Tests of Labor-Market Discrimination: A Study of Persons with Serious Disabilities,” in D. Salkever and A. Sorkin (eds.), Research in Human Capital and Development, Volume XIII, The Economics of Disability, Stamford, CT: JAI Press, (2000).

Frank, Richard G. and Salkever, David S. "Market Forces, Diversification of Activity, and the Mission of Not-for-Profit Hospitals,” in David M. Cutler (ed.), The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2000).

Salkever, David S. "Regulation of Prices and Investment in Hospitals in the United States,” in A. J. Culyer and J. P. Newhouse (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, New York: Elsevier Science B.V., (2000).

Domino, Marisa E. and Salkever, David S. "Recent Economic Research on Service Utilization and Costs: Schizophrenia and Substance Abuse," Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 13:2, (March 2000).