December 2009
Rosalie Liccardo
Pacula, Ph.D.
Senior Economist ■ RAND
Corporation ■ 1776
Main St. Santa
Monica CA 90407-2138
(310) 393-0411 ext 6494 ■ Internet: pacula@rand.org
Education
Ph.D. Economics,
Thesis Title:
The Development of Demand for Intoxicating Substances by Adolescents
Fields of Study: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public
Finance.
M.A. Economics,
B.S. Political Science,
Economics,
Professional Experience
2009 – Present Acting Director,
Economics, Finance and Organization Unit, RAND Health
2007 - Present Core Faculty,
2005 – Present Co-Director,
2005 – Present Senior Economist,
RAND
1997 – Present Faculty Research
Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
2002 – 2004 Economist,
1998 – 2001 Associate
Economist, RAND
1997 – 1998 Visiting Senior Research Analyst, Health
Research and
1995 – 1998 Assistant
Professor of Economics,
Research Interests
Health and
Health Care, Drug Markets, Drug Policy, Public Health Policy and Economics of Crime
Selected Journal Articles
McCaffrey D.; R.L. Pacula; B. Han, and P.
Ellickson. (Forthcoming) “Marijuana Use and High School Drop Out: The
Influence of Unobservables” Health Economics.
MacCoun, R., Pacula, R.L., Chriqui JF, Harris K, and
P Reuter (2009) “Do Citizens Know Whether Their
State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? Assessing the
Perceptual Component of Deterrence Theory” Review
of
Law and Economics 5(1): 347-371.
Williams
J; Pacula R.L; Chaloupka, F.J;
and H. Wechsler. (2004). “Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students: Economic Complements or Substitutes?” Health Economics, 13(9): 825-843.
Pacula R.L.; Chriqui J.F.; Reichman
D.A.; and Terry-McElrath Y. (2002). “State Medical Marijuana Laws:
Understanding the Laws and their Limitations” Journal of Public Health
Policy. 23(4): 413-439.
Kenkel,
D., Mathios, A.D. and R.L. Pacula. (2001). “Economics of Youth Drug Use,
Addiction and Gateway Effects.” Addiction
96, Number 1, Special Issue: 151-164.
Pacula,
R.L. and R.
Sturm. (2000). “Mental Health Parity Legislation: Much
Sturm, R. and R.L. Pacula. (1999). “State Mental Health Parity Laws: Cause or Consequence of Differences in Use?” Health Affairs 18(5): 182-192.
Pacula, R.L. (1998)."Does Increasing
the Beer Tax Reduce Marijuana Consumption?" Journal of Health Economics 17(5): 557-586.
Pacula, R.L. (1997). “Women and Substance
Use: Are Women More Susceptible to
Addiction?” American Economic Review
87 (2): 454-459.
Pacula, R.L. (1997). “Economic Modeling of
the Gateway Effect.” Health Economics
6(5): 521-524.
Selected Books and Book Chapters
Kilmer,
B and R.L. Pacula (Forthcoming). “Drug Prevention and its Impact on Substance Use,
Earnings and
Educational Outcomes” in Levine P
and D Zimmerman (Eds) Targeting Investments in Children,
Pacula, R.L.; MacCoun R; Reuter P.; Chriqui J.F.; Kilmer B.; Harris K; Paoli L; and C. Schaefer. (2005) “What
does it mean to decriminalize cannabis? A cross-national empirical examination” in B. Lindgren and M. Grossman (Eds) Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research Vol. 16: Substance Use: Individual Behavior, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics. Elsevier Press.
Hall, W. and R.L. Pacula. (2003). Cannabis Use
and Dependence: Public Health and Public
Policy.
Pacula,
R.L.; Grossman, M; Chaloupka, F.J.; P. O’Malley; L.D.
Johnston and M.C. Farrelly. (2001) “Marijuana and Youth” (pp. 193-191). In Jonathan Gruber (Ed.), Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic
Analysis.
Chaloupka,
F.J. and R.L. Pacula. (2000). “Economics and Anti-Health Behavior: The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse”
(pp. 89-111). In W. Bickel and R.
Vuchinich (Eds), Reframing Health
Behavior Change with Behavioral Economic.
Selected
Peer-Reviewed Monographs and Congressional Testimony
Reuter PH, F Trautmann, RL Pacula, B
Kilmer, A Gageldonk, D van der Gouwe
(2009) “Assessing Changes in Global
Drug Problems, 1998-2007: Main Report”
RAND Technical Report TR-704-EC.
Kilmer B and R.L. Pacula (2009) “Estimating
the size of the global drug market: A
demand-side approach: Report 2” RAND Technical Report TR-711-EC.
Pacula
R.L., S. Hoorens, B Kilmer, PH Reuter, JR Burgdorf, and P Hunt (2009) “Issues
in Estimating the Economic Cost
of Drug Abuse in Consuming Nations:
Report 3” RAND Technical Report
TR-709-EC.
Methamphetamine Use in the
R.L.
Pacula (2009) “Legalizing Marijuana: Issues to Consider Before Reforming
California State Law” Testimony presented before the California State
Assembly Public Safety Committee,
Pacula R.L.
(2008). “What Research Tells Us About the Reasonableness of the Current
Priorities of National Drug Control” Testimony presented before the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Domestic Policy,
Washington DC, March 12, 2008. RAND
Congressional Testimony CT-302. Santa Monica , CA : RAND .
Caulkins, J., R.L. Pacula, J. Arkes, P. Reuter, S. Paddock, M. Iguchi, and J.
Riley. (2004). The Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs: 1981 Through the Second Quarter of 2003. Office of National Drug Control Policy.
November.
Arkes,
J., R.L. Pacula, S. Paddock, J. Caulkins, and P. Reuter. (2004). Technical
Report for the Price and Purity of
Illicit Drugs Through 2003. Office
of National Drug Control Policy.
November.
Current
Working Papers and Papers Under Review
Galenianos, M, Pacula,
R.L. and Persico, N. “A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Markets for
Illicit Drugs” Paper submitted to Review of Economic Studies, September 2009. Also released as an NBER Working Paper # 14980, May 2009.
Arkes, A, Pacula
R.L., Paddock S, Caulkins J and P Reuter. “Why the DEAs STRIDE Data are
Still Useful for
Understanding Drug Markets” Paper re-submitted to Review of Economics and Statistics,
August 2009. NBER Working Paper #14224, August 2008.
Pacula, R.L.; Kilmer B; Grossman M.; and F.J. Chaloupka. “Risk and
Prices: The Role of User
Sanctions in Marijuana
Markets” Paper revised and resubmitted to Journal of Economic Analysis and
Policy, August 2009.
Also released as an NBER Working Paper # 13415, September 2007.
Pacula R.L., Kilmer
B, Slaughter M and S. Paddock. “The Dynamics of Drugs and Crime: Using Microsimulation to Understand How Marijuana and Crime over Time” Paper
presented at
Paddock S.M., Pacula
R.L., Ringel. J et al., “Using Microsimulation Modeling to Capture
Heterogeneity in
Marijuana Use” Paper presented at the International
Society for the Study of Drug Problems (ISSDP)
Meetings,
Pacula, R.L., Ringel, J., Suttorp M, and K Truong. “An
Examination of the Nature and Cost of Marijuana
Treatment
Episodes” Paper presented at the American
Society for Health Economics Annual Meeting,
FUNDED RESEARCH
Co-Investigator on a contract with the European Commission entitled “Drug Supply Reduction and Drug-Related Crime”, September 2008 through June 2009.
Co-Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse entitled “Evaluating the Role of Race in Criminal Justice Referrals to Treatment”, March 2008 through February 2010.
Co-Investigator on a contract with the European Commission entitled “Global Markets for Drugs” January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
Principal Investigator on a contract with the Meth Project Foundation entitled “Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in 2005” December 1, 2007 through November 30, 2008.
Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse entitled “The Economic Cost of Drug Use?” May 10, 2006 through April 30, 2010.
Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse entitled “Are There Economic Costs to Marijuana Use?” February 05, 2000 through January 31, 2004. Received continuing renewal grant for August 2004 through July 2007.
Principal Investigator on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation entitled “Exploring the Relationship Between Marijuana Policy and Price” January 2004 through December 2005.
Co-Investigator on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “Understanding The Impact Of Funding Volatility On Treatment Services” September 2004 through August 2006.
Principal
Investigator on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled
“Within- and Cross-National Analyses of the Effects of Cannabis Depenalization”
July 01, 2002 through June 30, 2005.
Principal
Investigator on a government task order from the Office of National Drug
Control Policy entitled “The Price of Illicit Drugs” September 2002 through May
2004.
Co-Principal
Investigator on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled,
“State Illicit Drug Surveillance System.”
Duane McBride, Principal Investigator.
January 1, 2000 through February 2004.
Co-Investigator
on a grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse entitled “Consequences of
Drug Use.” Phyllis Ellickson, Principal
Investigator. July 2000 through November
2003.
Principal
Investigator on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “Are
there Unintended Consequences of Alcohol and Tobacco Policies on College
Campuses?” Frank Chaloupka, Co-Investigator.
November 1, 1998 through October 31, 2001.
Co-Investigator
on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “Estimating the
Effects of Drug Prevention Programs on the Use of Cocaine, Marijuana,
Cigarettes and Alcohol.” Jonathan Caulkins, Principal Investigator. March 3, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
Co-Investigator
on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “The Impact of
Environmental Factors on Youth and Young Adult Tobacco Use,” Frank Chaloupka
Principal Investigator, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer Co-Principal
Investigators. October 1, 1997 through
September 30, 1999.
Co-Investigator
on a grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention entitled “Price,
Availability, and Youth Tobacco Use” Frank Chaloupka Principal
Investigator. September 1, 1997 through
September 30, 1998.
Research
Specialist on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “Youth
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Surveillance Initiative,” Frank Chaloupka,
Project Director. November 1, 1997
through October 31, 1999.
Research
Specialist on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “Youth
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Surveillance Initiative: Planning Proposal,” Frank Chaloupka, Project
Director. October 1, 1997 through October
31, 1997.
Principal
Investigator on a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism entitled “The Development of Demand for Intoxicating
Substances.” August 1, 1993 through July
31, 1995.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
American
Society for Health Economics (ASHE) Awards Committee, December 2009 – present.
Member
of the APPAM Conference Program Committee, Fall 2008 and Fall 2009.
Assistant
Editor, Addiction, December 2005 - December 2009.
Conference
Host and Program Chair for 4th Annual Meeting of the International
Society for the Study of Drug Problems (ISSDP), to be held at RAND Santa
Monica, CA., March 2010.
One of
13 members appointed to the Health Services Research Subcommittee, National
Institute on Drug Abuse Initial Review Group-F, June 2003 – June 2007.
Conference
Planner for 2005 Addiction Health Services Research Meeting co-hosted by UCLA
and RAND,
One of
11 people appointed to review the 2003 National Research Council and Institute
of Medicine’s report Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility, Committee on
Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking, Richard J.
Bonnie and Mary Ellen O’Connell Editors.
Selected
to be part of Scientific Committee for the first American Society on Health
Economics (ASHE) Meeting,
One of
12 members appointed to the Health Services Research Review Subcommittee of the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Initial Review Group,
(AA-2), July 2001-October 2002.
Regular reviewer for the
following journals and foundations: American Economic Review, Health Affairs, Health
Economics, Health Services Research, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of
Research in Crime and Delinquency, Law and Economics, Review of Law and
Economics, Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Medical Care, National
Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Addiction..
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2010 recipient of RAND
President’s Award, recognizing individuals exemplifying RAND’s core values
of quality and objectivity and who have made exemplary contributions to
the
- Selected to be the
Keynote Speaker at the 2008 Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and
Other Drugs (Sydney, November 2008)
- Featured in a research
summary the NBER Reporter publication (Winter 2005).
- 2004 Winner of RAND
Bronze Merit Award for contributions to
- Participant in first
“Creating Career Opportunities For Female Economists” Conference sponsored
by CWEP and the National Science Foundation, January 5-7, 1998.
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University of
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Magna Cum Laude, 1990.
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Phi Beta Kappa, 1990.
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Alpha Sigma Nu, 1990.