REAGAN ANNE BAUGHMAN
401C McConnell Hall Office: (603) 862-0800 Department of Economics Fax: (603) 862-3383
University of New Hampshire [email protected]
Durham, NH 03824
______________________________________________________________________________ FIELDS Health Economics, Public Finance, Labor Economics
CURRENT Assistant Professor of Economics
POSITIONS Whittemore School of Business & Economics University of New Hampshire
August 2003 - present
PREVIOUS Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics POSITIONS Corvinus University of Budapest
September-December 2007
Visiting Scholar, New England Public Policy Center Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, May-August 2007
Research Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, University of Michigan, August 2001-July 2003
EDUCATION Ph.D., Syracuse University, Economics, August 2001 M.A., Syracuse University, Economics, July 1999
B.A., summa cum laude, Drew University, Economics, May 1996 DISSERTATION “Three Essays on the Behavioral Impacts of Public Policy on Health” Committee: Douglas Holtz-Eakin (Chair), Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Dan Black, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Kubik
PUBLICATIONS
“The Earned Income Tax Credit and Fertility.” (with Stacy Dickert-Conlin). Journal of Population Economics. (forthcoming)
“Caring for America’s Aging Population: A Profile of the Direct Care Workforce.” 2007. (with Kristin Smith) Monthly Labor Review. 130(9): 20-26.
"Expanding Public Health Insurance for Children: Do Local Economic Conditions Matter?" 2007. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. 7(1): 1-22.
“Worker Preferences, Sorting and Aggregate Patterns of Health Insurance Coverage.” 2006. (with Richard Hirth, Michael Chernew and Emily Shelton). International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. 6(4): 259-277.
“Evaluating the Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Insurance Coverage of Low Income Workers.” 2005. National Tax Journal 58(4): 665-684.
"Productivity and Wage Effects of “Family-Friendly” Fringe Benefits." 2003. (with Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Daniela DiNardi) International Journal of Manpower 24(3): 247-259.
"Did Expanding the EITC Promote Motherhood?" 2003. (with Stacy Dickert-Conlin) American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings of the 115th Annual Meeting, May.
“How Well Can We Track Cohabitation Using the SIPP? A Consideration of Direct and Inferred Measures.” 2002. (with Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Scott Houser) Demography 39(3): 455-465. “Slippery When Wet: the Effects of Local Alcohol Access Laws on Highway Safety.” 2001. (with Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Michael Conlin and John Pepper) Journal of Health Economics 20(6): 1089-1096.
WORKING PAPERS
“The Labor Market for Direct Care Workers” 2007. (with Kristin Smith) New England Public Policy Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Working Paper No. 07-04.
“Low Wages Prevalent in Direct Care and Child Care Workforce.” 2007. (with Kristin Smith) Carsey Institute. University of New Hampshire. Policy Brief No. 7.
“Employment and Health Insurance: Views from Five Surveys” 2005. (with Hans Kuttner, Caroline Mortensen and Brian Christian). Economic Research Initiative on the Unisured. University of Michigan. Working Paper No. 27. http://www.umich.edu/~eriu/pdf/wp27.pdf “Low Income Workers’ Demand for Private Health Insurance: The Impact of the EITC.” 2001. Proceedings of the National Tax Association 93rd Annual Conference on Taxation, 2000: 259-267. WORK IN PROGRESS
“SCHIP Expansions and Child Health Outcomes” (with Minghua Li)
“Determinants of Wages and Health Insurance Coverage for Providers on Long Term Care” (with Kristin Smith)
“Employment Duration in the Direct Care Workforce” (with Kristin Smith)
“How Do States Formulate Medicaid Policy? The Role of Political Institutions” (with Jeffrey Milyo)
“Disability and Employment: The Role of Health Insurance” “Are Markets for Long Term Care Workers Monopsonistic?”
FUNDED RESEARCH
Fellowship. Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. University of Michigan. August 2001-July 2003.
“The Effect of Geographic Access on Job Sorting and Health Insurance Coverage.” (with Richard Hirth and Michael Chernew) Funded by the Economic Initiative for Research on the Uninsured, University of Michigan. July 2002 – July 2003. ($85,000)
“Reducing Direct Care Turnover: Does Policy Matter?” W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Mini-Grant Program. May – June 2006. ($5,000)
“How Do States Formulate Social Policy? The Role of Political Institutions.” University of New Hampshire Graduate School Summer Fellowship. July – August 2006. ($5,230)
“The Ecology of Direct Care Work” President’s Excellence Initiative, University of New Hampshire. ($49,108)
CONFERENCE and SEMINAR PARTICIPATION
Presentations
“Determinants of Wages and Health Insurance for Providers of Long Term Care” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2007
Eastern Economic Association, 2008 (Invited)
“Reducing Direct Care Turnover: Do Wage Subsidies Matter?” University of New Hampshire, 2006
Eastern Economic Association, 2006 Population Association of America, 2006 Southern Economic Association, 2006 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2007
International Health Economics Association, 2007 “How Do States Formulate Medicaid Policy?”
American Economic Association, 2006
“Employment Dynamics in the Direct Care Workforce” Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire, 2005 “Family Structure and the Duration of Child Poverty Spells”
Southern Economic Association, 2004 Eastern Economic Association, 2005
"Expanding Public Health Insurance for Children: Do Local Economic Conditions Matter?"
Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Annual Meeting, 2003 Eastern Economic Association, 2004
Southern Economic Association, 2004 University of New Hampshire, 2004 American Economic Association, 2005 “The Earned Income Tax Credit and Fertility”
National Tax Association, 2001
Population Association of America, 2002
Association of Public Policy and Management, 2002 American Economic Association, 2003
University of Tennessee, 2003 University of New Hampshire, 2005
“The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Insurance Coverage of Low Income Workers”
National Tax Association, 2000
American Economic Association, 2001 University of Michigan, 2002
University of Georgia, 2003
University of New Hampshire, 2003 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2003
Office of Tax Analysis, Department of Treasury, 2003 Congressional Budget Office, 2003
Other Participation
Discussant: National Tax Association, 2001, 2002 and 2006; Population Association of America Economic Demography Workshop, 2003; Eastern Economic Association, 2004-2006; Southern Economic Association, 2003, 2004 and 2004-2006; American Economic Association, 2000 and 2005; Association of Public Policy and Management, 2006
Session Chair: Eastern Economic Association Meetings, 2005-2006; Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2006
Invited participant: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Mentoring Workshop at the Southern Economics Association Meetings, 2004; Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured Conferences (University of Michigan), 2002-2006.
TEACHING
Undergraduate: Principles of Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis Labor Economics
Public Finance Health Economics Graduate: Health Economics
Graduate Research Workshop HONORS
Irving Fisher Graduate Paper Award (Omicron Delta Epsilon), 2001 Finalist, National Tax Association Dissertation Award, 2001
Syracuse University Fellowship Phi Beta Kappa
CONSULTING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING
Speaker at the New Hampshire Economic Summit. May 2004.
Analysis of the Microcredit NH Small Business Lending Program for the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority. January 2004-June 2004.
Analysis of ‘Family-Friendly’ Benefits and Productivity Measures for the United Way of Central New York. August 2000-July 2001.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Examiner on Public Economics Comprehensive Exam Committee (2003 – 2007) Examiner on Health Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Committee (2004 – present) Chair of M.A. Thesis Committee for Celeste Carruthers (2005)
Co-Chair of Ph.D. Committee for Timothy Page (ongoing)
Member of Ph.D. Committees for Andrea Kutinova (2005) and Minghua Li (2006)
Referee/Reviewer for: Contemporary Economic Policy; Eastern Economic Review; Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis; Health Economics; International Journal of Manpower; Inquiry; Journal of Health Economics; Journal of Population Economics; Journal of Population Research; Labour Economics; National Tax Journal; Population Studies; Public Opinion Quarterly; Social Science Research; Southern Economic Journal; 2003 NSAF Grant Program of the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Economic Association; American Society of Health Economists; International Health Economics Association; Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession; Eastern Economic Association; Population Association of America
