Curriculum Vitae

Douglas Staiger

33 Goodfellow Road

Hanover, NH 03755

Home: (603) 643-9924

Work: (603) 646-2979

POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

1998 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755

1998 - present: Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

1997 - 1998: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

1997 - 1998: Associate Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

1993 - 1997: Assistant Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

1998 - present: Associate Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

1995 -2000: Associate Editor, Journal of Health Economics.

1994 - 1995: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship through the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

1992 - 1993: Visiting Assistant Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

1990 - 1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University.

1990 - 1998: Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Economics), 1990, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Honors: NSF Fellowship 1986-1989, Bradley Fellowship 1989-1990.

Advisors: Henry Farber, Robert Gibbons, and Daniel McFadden.

B.A. (Economics and Mathematics), 1984, Williams College.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Health economics, Labor economics. Current projects include:

(1) Measuring and investigating the determinants of quality of care in hospitals.

(2) Estimating the impacts of changing abortion access and other factors on fertility and child outcomes.

(3) Evaluating the effect of recent changes in the health care market on the employment and earnings of nurses.

PUBLICATIONS

Buerhaus, Peter, Douglas Staiger and David Auerbach “Implications of a Rapidly Aging Registered Nurse Workforce,” JAMA, forthcoming.

Chou, Y.J. and Douglas Staiger, "Health Insurance Availability and Female Labor Supply," The Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.

McClellan, Mark and Douglas Staiger, “Comparing the Quality of Health Care Providers,” in Alan Garber (ed.) Frontiers in Health Policy, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

Gruber, Jonathan, Phillip Levine and Douglas Staiger, "Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the `Marginal Child'," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(1), 1999, 263-291.

Levine, Phillip, Douglas Staiger, Thomas Kane, and David Zimmerman, "Roe V. Wade and American Fertility," American Journal of Public Health, 89(2), 1999, 199-103.

Buerhaus, Peter and Douglas Staiger, “Trouble in the Nurse Labor Market? Recent Trends and Future Outlook for Nurse Earnings and Employment,” Health Affairs, January/February, 18(1), 1999, 214-222 .

McClellan, Mark and Douglas Staiger, “Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals,” in David Cutler (ed.) Non-Profit Hospitals (tentative title), University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 1999.

Staiger, Douglas, "The Covariance Structure of Mortality Rates in Hospitals," in David Wise (ed.) Inquiries in The Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Staiger, Douglas, discussion of Cutler and Richardon’s paper in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1997, Martin Baily, Peter Reiss and Clifford Winston (eds.), The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 1998.

Buerhaus, Peter and Douglas Staiger, "Future of the Nurse Labor Market in the View of Health Executives in High Managed Care States," IMAGE: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 29(4), 1997, 313-318.

Staiger, Douglas, James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson, "The NAIRU, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(1), Winter 1997, 33-49.

Staiger, Douglas, James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson, "How Precise are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment," in Christina Romer and David Romer (ed.) Reducing Inflation: Motivation and Strategy, University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Staiger, Douglas and James H. Stock, "Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments," Econometrica, 65(3), May 1997, 557-586.

Buerhaus, Peter and Douglas Staiger, "Managed Care and the Nurse Workforce," JAMA, 276(18), November 13, 1996, 1487-1493.

Kane, Tom and Douglas Staiger, "Abortion Access and Teen Motherhood," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), May 1996, 467-506.

Norton, Edward C. and Douglas O. Staiger, "How Hospital Ownership Affects Access to Care for the Uninsured," Rand Journal of Economics, 25(1), Spring 1994, 171-185.

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

McClellan, Mark and Douglas Staiger, “Estimating Treatment Effects Using Hospital-Level Variation in Treatment Intensity,” manuscript, 1999.

McClellan, Mark and Douglas Staiger, “The Quality of Health Care Providers,” National Bureau of Economics Working paper, September 1999.

Levine, Phillip and Douglas Staiger, “Abortion Policy and the Economics of Fertility,” manuscript, 1999.

Kane, Thomas J., Cecilia E. Rouse and Douglas Staiger, “Estimating Returns to Schooling when Schooling is Misreported,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #7235, 1999 (revise and resubmit to Quarterly Journal of Economics).

Staiger, Douglas, Joanne Spetz and Ciaran Phibbs, "Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence From a Natural Experiment," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #7258, 1999 (revise and resubmit to RAND Journal).

Chou, Y.J. and Douglas Staiger, "Fertility and the Cost of Having a Child: Can the Government Influence Fertility Through Incentives?" manuscript, 1997.

Cutler, David and Douglas Staiger, "Measuring the Value of Medical Progress," manuscript, 1996.

Phibbs, Ciaran, Joanne Spetz and Douglas Staiger, "Economic Evaluation of the 1991 Changes in How the VA Sets Wages for Nurses," Report to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Project IIR 91-148, 1995.

Staiger, Douglas and Gary Gaumer, "Price Regulation and Patient Mortality in Hospitals" manuscript, 1995 (revise and resubmit to Journal of Political Economy).

Staiger, Douglas and James H. Stock, "Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments," NBER technical working paper #151, 1994.

Staiger, Douglas, "Tax Policy and Labor Unions," manuscript, 1994.

Staiger, Douglas, "Quality of care and patient volume," manuscript, 1992.

Staiger, Douglas, "The political origins of government health insurance reform," manuscript, 1991.

Staiger, Douglas, "Regulation and labor earnings in hospitals," manuscript, 1990.

Staiger, Douglas, "Why do union contracts exclude employment?" manuscript, 1990.

Staiger, Douglas, "The effect of connections on the wages and mobility of young workers," manuscript, 1990.

GRANT AWARDS

Jeannette Rogowski, Jeffrey Horbar and Douglas Staiger, “Measuring the Quality of Care for High Risk Infants,” Agency for Health Care Policy, 1999.

Phillip B. Levine and Douglas Staiger, “What Have We Learned About Abortion Policy?” Kaiser Family Foundation Grant #97-1568, 1/98-8/98.

Peter I. Buerhaus and Douglas Staiger, “An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of a Rapidly Aging Registered Nurse Workforce,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant #032167, 11/97-10/00.

Peter I. Buerhaus and Douglas Staiger, "An Empirical Analysis of Forces Affecting Employment and Earnings in the Nurse Labor Market," Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant #028645, 4/96-12/96.

Ciaran S. Phibbs and Douglas Staiger, "Economic evaluation of the 1991 changes in how the VA sets wages for nurses," Veterans Administration Grant #91-148, 6/93-9/95.