John Mullahy

I am a health economist and Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with affiliate appointments in: the La Follette School of Public Affairs; the Department of Risk and Insurance in the Wisconsin School of Business; the Center for Demography and Ecology; the Institute for Research on Poverty; and the Center for Financial Security. I am also an Honorary Professor of Economics at NUI Galway in Ireland and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. I currently serve as Co-Editor of Health Economics.

My main interests and expertise are in the areas of: multi-morbidities of physical and mental health problems and empirical methods used to study them; understanding determinants of, disparities in, and measurement of health outcomes; evaluation of health interventions; economic aspects of health-related behaviors; and applications of econometric methods to health economics and health policy analysis. I engage in extensive disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and mentoring at the graduate and postdoctoral levels across campus. I am an active participant in CDE, serving as an Associate Director for Training and as a member of the Executive Committee.

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Demography of Inequality; Health and the Life Course

Selected Publications:

Mullahy, John. “Investigating health outcomes defined by multiple chronic conditions.” In Recent Developments in Health Econometrics, vol. 297, pp. 255-270. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.

Mullahy, John. “Clinical decisions, patient race, and flawed data.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, no. 35 (2024): e2415152121.

Luo, Dian, Mariétou H. Ouayogodé, John Mullahy, and Ying Cao. “Regional variation in length of stay for stroke inpatient rehabilitation in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage.” Health Affairs Scholar 2, no. 7 (2024): qxae089.

Mullahy, John. “Analyzing health outcomes measured as bounded counts.” Journal of Health Economics 95 (2024): 102875.

Mullahy, John, and Edward C. Norton. “Why transform y? The pitfalls of transformed regressions with a mass at zero.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 86, no. 2 (2024): 417-447.