John Mullahy, PhD

Professor, Population Health Sciences, LaFollette School of Public Affairs

Email: jmullahy@wisc.edu

Biography:

John Mullahy is an economist who specializes in health economics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1985 and his B.A. in Economics magna cum laude from Georgetown University in 1979, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prof. Mullahy did postdoctoral work at Yale University and at the University of Connecticut. He was a visiting scholar at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin in 2005. Prof. Mullahy is presently a Professor of Population Health Sciences, an affiliate professor at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs, an affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at UW-Madison, an affiliate faculty member of the Health, Econometrics, and Data Group at the University of York, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

At UW-Madison, Prof. Mullahy co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported Health & Society Scholars Program, the NIMH-supported predoctoral training program in Health and Mental Health Economics, and the Merck Company Foundation-supported predoctoral training program in Health Economics. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics and Health Economics. Prof. Mullahy's previous appointments have been as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center, a Lecturer in Economics, Public Health, and Organization and Management at Yale University, and a Fellow at Resources for the Future. (Download CV)

Affiliations/Associations:

• American Society of Health Economists
• International Health Economics Association
• American Economic Association

Recent Honors/Awards:

Prof. Mullahy was awarded (with co-author Willard Manning) the 2002 Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper in health economics in 2001, "Estimating Log Models: To Transform or Not to Transform?" which was published in the Journal of Health Economics. He has been an invited keynote speaker at the Portuguese Health Economics Association (2009), Australian Health Economics Society Annual Meeting (2005), the European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics (2000). He has served on the Masterclass Faculty of the EU's Marie Curie Training Program in Applied Health Economics. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of York (2009) and University College Dublin (2005).

Select Publications:

"Econometric Modeling of Health Care Costs and Expenditures: A Survey of Analytical Issues and Related Policy Considerations." Medical Care (2009).

"Tobit at Fifty: A Brief History of Tobin's Remarkable Estimator, of Related Empirical Methods, and of Limited Dependent Variable Econometrics in Health Economics." Health Economics (2009) (K. Enami and J. Mullahy).

"Live Long, Live Well: Quantifying the Health of Heterogeneous Populations." Health Economics 10: 429-440 (2001).

"Estimating Log Models: To Transform or Not to Transform?" Journal of Health Economics 20: 461-494 (2001) (W. Manning and J. Mullahy).

"It'll Only Hurt a Second? Microeconomic Determinants of Who Gets Flu Shots." Health Economics 8: 9-24 (1999).

"Much Ado About Two: Reconsidering Retransformation and the Two-Part Model in Health Econometrics." Journal of Health Economics 17: 247-281 (1998).

"Net Health Benefits: A New Framework for the Analysis of Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis." Medical Decision Making 18: S68-S80 (1998) (A. Stinnett and J. Mullahy).

"Instrumental-Variable Estimation of Count Data Models: Applications to Models of Cigarette Smoking Behavior" Review of Economics and Statistics 79: 586-593 (1997).

"Heterogeneity, Excess Zeros, and the Structure of Count Data Models." Journal of Applied Econometrics 12: 337-350 (1997).

"Employment, Unemployment, and Problem Drinking." Journal of Health Economics 15: 409-435 (1996) (J. Mullahy and J. Sindelar). (Reprinted in The Economics of Health Behaviors, J.H. Cawley and D.S. Kenkel Eds., Elgar Publishers, 2008)

"Specification and Testing of Some Modified Count Data Models." Journal of Econometrics 33: 341 365 (1986).

Courses Taught:

• Health Economics
• Seminar in Health and Mental Health Economics

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