John Mullahy, Ph.D.

 

Professor Mullahy 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 affiliated with the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at UW-Madison.  At UW-Madison, he 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.  His 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. Research Interests Prof. Mullahy's main research interests are in the areas of economic aspects of alcohol and tobacco use, health care evaluation methodologies, and applied econometrics. Affiliations/Associations:   Prof. Mullahy is a Research Associate in the Health Economics, Health Care, and Children Programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, and Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology.  Prof. Mullahy is an affiliate faculty member of the Health, Econometrics, and Data Group at the University of York.  Prof. Mullahy is a member of the American Economic Association, the International Health Economics Association, and the American Society of Health Economists (at which he serves on the Board of Governors).   Awards and Honors   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?" Journal of Health Economics 20: 461-494.  He has been an invited keynote speaker at the Australian Health Economics Society Annual Meeting (2005), the European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics (2000), and the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Conference (2001).  He serves on the Masterclass Faculty of the EU's Marie Curie Training Program in Applied Health Economics. Representative Publications: "Perspectives on Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care." Chapter in  Elgar Companion to Health Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (2006) (D. Vanness and J. Mullahy).   "Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data." Journal of Health Economics 24: 465-488 (2005) (W. Manning, A. Basu, J. Mullahy).   "Health, Income, and Inequality." in Social Inequality, K. Neckerman, ed.: New York: Sage Foundation (2004) (S. Robert, B. Wolfe, 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)   "Health, Income, and Risk Aversion: Assessing Some Welfare Costs of Alcoholism and Poor Health." Journal of Human Resources 30: 439-459 (1995) (J. Mullahy and J. Sindelar). "Statistical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses." in Frank Sloan, ed.: Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies. Cambridge University Press (1995) (J. Mullahy and W. Manning). Teaching:   PHS 848          Health Economics PHS 845/846   Seminar in Health and Mental Health Economics PHS 795          Principles of Population Health Sciences Contact Information: John Mullahy, Ph.D. Department of Population Health Sciences 787 WARF Building 610 Walnut Street Madison, Wisconsin 53726-2397 USA Phone: (608) 265-5410 Fax: (608) 263-2820 Email: jmullahy@facstaff.wisc.edu Updated 10/17/07