Christine Durrance

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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:

Pac, Jessica, Lonnie Berger, Christine Durrance, Deborah Ehrenthal. “The Effect of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on Health in Early Childhood,” Forthcoming at American Journal of Health Economics.

Dave Dhaval, Christine Durrance, Bilge Erten, Yang Wang, & Barbara Wolfe (2025). “Abortion Restrictions and Intimate Partner Violence in the Dobbs Era. Journal of Health Economics 104: 103074, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.103074. Also shared as NBER Working Paper #33916.

Durrance Christine, Yang Wang, Barbara Wolfe (2025). “Abortion Restrictions and Child Protective Services Involvement,” Journal of Health Economics 103: 03032,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.103032. 

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.

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.