Kathleen Mullen (Ph.D. University of Chicago 2005) recently joined RAND as an Associate Economist after completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University through the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. Her research interests include applied microeconomics, econometrics, and health economics. In past work she has estimated the effect of schooling on achievement test scores controlling for endogenous schooling, which earned her and her coauthors the 2005 Dennis J. Aigner Award for the best applied econometrics paper published in the Journal of Econometrics in the previous two years.
Publications
Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers" (with Richard Frank and Meredith Rosenthal), RAND Journal of Economics (2010)
Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool...
The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores (with Karsten Hansen and James Heckman), Journal of Econometrics (2004)
This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores...
Working Papers
Pension Benefits & Retirement Decisions: Income vs. Price Elasticities (with Dayanand Manoli and Mathis Wagner) (2009)
We separately identify the income and price elasticities in individuals’retirement decisions. We develop a dynamic...