education:

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
A.B, Economics, Princeton University, 1991

professional experience

Associate Professor of Economic and Public Policy, UMass-Amherst, 2005-
Assistant Professor of Economic and Public Policy, UMass-Amherst, 1999-2005
Princeton Project 55 Fellow, Trenton Office of Policy Studies, Trenton, NJ 1991-1992
Staff Labor Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-1996.

research interests

Environment, Health, Health Disparities, Labor

honors & awards

Wayne F. Placek Award, American Psychological Foundation (2002)

grants

In preparation:
``Assessing the Links between Toxic Risk and Individual and Neighborhood Changes''
For submission to NSF Human and Social Dynamics (PI Paul Mohai at University of Michigan)
Currently funded:
``Hospital Unions, Staffing, Wages, and Patient Safety''
NIH R01 (PI Joanne Spetz at UCSF) (2007-2010)
Past funding:
``Health Insurance Inequality for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People''
Wayne F. Placek Award, American Psychological Foundation (2002)

Selected publications

2008. Sanjiv Gupta and Michael Ash. ``Whose Money, Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework in the United States.'' Feminist Economics.
2007. Michael Ash and M. V. Lee Badgett. ``Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples.'' Contemporary Economic Policy.
2006. Michael Ash and Sylvia Brandt. ``Disparities in Asthma Hospitalization in Massachusetts,'' American Journal of Public Health.
2004. Michael Ash and Jean Ann Seago, ``The Effect of Registered Nurses' Unions on Heart Attack Mortality?'' Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
2004. Michael Ash and T. Robert Fetter. ``Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators Model,'' Social Science Quarterly.