Christine Durrance

Christine Durrance is a Professor of Public Affairs. As an applied microeconomist, she concentrates in health economics and policy. Her work includes a focus on maternal, infant, and reproductive health; risky behavior including substance use, the opioid crisis, violence, and child maltreatment; and competition in health care markets. Much of her work focuses on vulnerable populations and utilizes secondary-data and robust econometric methods to identify causal effects with important policy implications. Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Child Abuse & Neglect, JAMA Pediatrics, and others.

Selected Publications:

Berger, Lawrence M., Christine Durrance, Deborah Ehrenthal, HeeJin Kim, Hsiang-Hui Kuo, and Jessica Pac. “Prenatal opioid exposure by likelihood of exposure and risk to prenatal development: Medicaid-covered births in Wisconsin, 2010–2019.” Science Advances 10, no. 19 (2024): eadg9674.

Blair, Roger D., and Christine Piette Durrance. “Illumina-GRAIL in Retrospect.” Review of Industrial Organization (2024): 1-14.

Durrance, Christine, Melanie Guldi, and Lisa Schulkind. “The effect of rural hospital closures on maternal and infant health.” Health Services Research 59, no. 2 (2024): e14248.

Ehrenthal, Deborah B., Yi Wang, Jessica Pac, Christine Piette Durrance, Russell S. Kirby, and Lawrence M. Berger. “Trends in prenatal prescription opioid use among Medicaid beneficiaries in Wisconsin, 2010–2019.” Journal of Perinatology (2024): 1-8.

Durrance, Christine Piette, and Danielle N. Atkins. “Estimating the incidence of substance exposed newborns with child welfare system involvement.” Child Abuse & Neglect 149 (2024): 106629.