Bentley College National Bureau of Economic Research
Department of Economics 365 Fifth Avenue
175 Forest Street, AAC 195 Fifth Floor, Suite 5318
Waltham, MA 02452-4705 New York, NY 10016-4309
Phone: 781.891.2268 Phone: 212.817.7955
E-mail: ddave@bentley.edu
Fax: 212.817.1597
John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
September, 2003 – August, 2004 Philadelphia, PA
Health Care Systems
Ph.D. in Economics City University of New York, Graduate Center
August, 2003 New York, NY
Fields: Health and Labor Economics
International Economics
GPA Cumulative: 4.0
M.A. in Economics Rutgers University, Graduate School
May, 1997 Newark, NJ
GPA Cumulative: 4.0
B.S. in Finance, Economics Rutgers University, School of Management
May, 1994 Newark, NJ
Summa Cum Laude GPA Cumulative: 4.0
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
Department of Economics
September 2004 - Present Assistant Professor
Courses Taught: Health Economics
Applied Business Statistics
Introduction to Econometrics-Honors
Capstone Research Seminar-Honors
Quantitative Analysis for Business & Finance (Graduate Level)
Rutgers University, College of Arts and Sciences, Newark, NJ
January 2003 – June 2003, September 1995 – June 1998 Adjunct Professor
Courses Taught: Health Economics
Managerial Economics
Labor Economics
Econometrics
Introductory Macroeconomics
International Economics
Corporate Finance
Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY
September 1999 – December 2002 Adjunct Professor
Courses Taught: Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
April, 2004 – Present Faculty Research Fellow
July, 2002 – August, 2003 Senior Research Analyst
July, 1998 – June, 2002 Research Assistant
Summer 1999
Refereed Publications
“Infant Health Production Functions: What a Difference the Data Make,” (with Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, and Kelly Noonan), Health Economics, (2008) Forthcoming.
“Alcohol Demand and Risk Preference,” (with Henry Saffer), Journal of Economic Psychology, (2008) Forthcoming.
“The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes” (with Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevic), Southern Economic Journal, 75, No. 2, (October 2008) Forthcoming.
“Illicit Drug Use among Arrestees, Prices and Policy,” Journal of Urban Economics, 63, No. 2 (March 2008) 694-714.
“Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health,” (with Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, and Nancy Reichman), Health Economics, 16, No. 4 (April 2007) 361-384.
“Alcohol Advertising and Alcohol Consumption by Adolescents” (with Henry Saffer), Health Economics. 15, No. 6 (June 2006) 617-637.
"The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Price on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits," Journal of Health Economics, 25, No. 2 (March 2006) 311-333.
Abstract also published in Journal of Urban Health, 82, Supplement 2 (June 2005).
“Demand for Illicit Drugs among Pregnant Women” (with Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, and Nancy Reichman, Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, eds: Bjorn Lindgren and Michael Grossman, 16, 2005.
“The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on the Earnings of Older Workers” (with Henry Saffer), Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, eds: Bjorn Lindgren and Michael Grossman, 16, 2005.
“Mental Illness and the Demand for Alcohol, Cocaine, and Cigarettes” (with Henry Saffer), Economic Inquiry, 43, No. 2 (2005), 229-246.
“Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Attempts Among Youth“ (with Pinka Chatterji, Robert Kaestner, and Sara Markowitz), Economics and Human Biology, 2, No. 2 (2004), 159-180.
“Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Advertising Bans“ (with Henry Saffer), Applied Economics, 34, No. 11 (July 2002), 1325-1334.
“Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes” (with Robert Kaestner), Journal of Health Economics, 21, No. 3 (May 2002), 357-371.
“State Drug Control Spending and Drug Participation” (with Henry Saffer and Frank Chaloupka), Contemporary Economic Policy, 19, No. 2 (April 2001), 150-161.
“Overweight Status, Self-Perception, and Suicidal Behaviors among Adolescents,” (with Inas Rashad).
Under Review at Social Science and Medicine
“Health Insurance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare,” (with Robert Kaestner), NBER Working Paper Series No. 12764 (December 2006), National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA
Under Review at International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Other Publications
“Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs: Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions,” (with Nancy Reichman, Hope Corman, and Kelly Noonan), NBER Working Paper Series No. 12004 (February 2006), National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
“Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors among Young Adults,” (with Sara Markowitz, Pinka Chatterji, and Robert Kaestner), NBER Working Paper Series No. 8810 (March 2002), National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
“Intent to Quit and Actual Cessation: Do Prices Matter?”
(with Gregory Colman)
“Re-examining the Consequences of Medicaid Expansion for Pregnant Women”
(with Sandy Decker, Robert Kaestner, and Kosali Simon)
“Substance-Abuse Treatment Admissions: Impact of Health Insurance Mandates and Drug Prices”
(with Swati Mukerjee)
Prescription Drug Prices and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
(with Henry Saffer)
Secondary Effects of Welfare Policies
(with Hope Corman and Nancy Reichman)
Causality in the Social Sciences
(with Swati Mukerjee and Dominique Haughton)
Prescription Prices and Direct to Consumer Advertising
Funded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Effect of Tobacco Control Policy on Tobacco Use in Alcohol and Drug-Dependent Populations
Funded by Substance Abuse and Policy Research Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Alcohol Demand, Aging, Risk Factors, and Public Policy
Funded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
An Analysis of Systems Change: Juvenile Justice Evaluation
Investigator: Alison Evans Cuellar, Columbia University
Funded by MacArthur Foundation
Advisor: Dr. Michael Grossman
“Three Essays on the Economics of Substance Use and Abuse”
1. Mental Illness and the Demand for Alcohol, Cocaine, and Cigarettes
2. The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Price on Drug Use among Arrestees
and Drug-Related Emergency Room Visits
3. The Causal Impact of Substance Use on Suicidal Behaviors among Youths
Conference Presentations
American Society of Health Economists Biennial Conference
Equity and Efficiency in Health and Healthcare, Duke University, Durham, NC
June 23, 2008
“Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions: Impact of Insurance Mandates and Drug Prices”
(with Swati Mukerjee)
June 24, 2008
“Re-examining the Consequences of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women”
(with Sandra Decker, Robert Kaestner, and Kosali Simon)
Organizer & Chair of Session: “Inequalities in Health”
Chair of Session: “Health and Location
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
April 25, 2008
“Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare”
(with Robert Kaestner)
Southern Economic Association Conference, New Orleans, LA
November 20, 2007
“Risk Tolerance and Alcohol Demand among Adults and Older Adults”
(with Henry Saffer)
International Health Economics Association World Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark
July 9, 2007
“Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare”
(with Robert Kaestner)
July 10, 2007
“The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes”
(with Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevic)
July 10, 2007
“Overweight Status and Suicidal Behaviors among Adolescents: Correlation or Causation?”
(with Inas Rashad)
Organizer of Sessions: “Health Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Health Behaviors”
“Economics of Risky Behaviors”
Academic Health Annual Research Meeting, Orlando FL
June 5, 2007
“The Effects of Medicaid Eligibility Expansions on Insurance Coverage of Births”
(with Sandy Decker, Robert Kaestner, and Kosali Simon)
Eastern Economic Association Conference, New York, NY
February 24, 2007
“Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare”
(with Robert Kaestner)
Allied Social Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL
January 5, 2007
“Medicare and Health Behaviors”
(with Robert Kaestner)
“The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes”
(with Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevic)
Organizer of Session: “Health and Aging”
Southern Economic Association Conference, Charleston, SC
November 18, 2006
“The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes”
(with Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevic)
“Overweight Status and Suicidal Behaviors among Adolescents: Correlation or Causation?”
(with Inas Rashad)
Health Economics Workshop, University of Chicago, Center for Health & Social Sciences, Chicago, IL
November 9, 2006
“The Effect of Medicare on Health Behaviors of the Elderly”
(with Robert Kaestner)
NBER Health Care Program Meeting, Cambridge, MA
October 20, 2006
“Medicare and Health Behaviors of the Elderly”
(with Robert Kaestner)
Economics Seminar, Institute of Government & Public Affairs
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
September 6, 2006
“Effect of Medicare on the Health Behaviors of the Elderly”
(with Robert Kaestner)
Economics Seminar, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
August 25, 2006
“The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes”
(with Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevic)
Third International Congress on Economics and Human Biology Conference, Strasbourg, France
June 24, 2006
“The Demand for Healthy and Unhealthy Prenatal Inputs”
(with Nancy Reichman, Hope Corman, and Kelly Noonan)
American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Conference
Economics of Population Health, Madison, WI
June 6, 2006
“Overweight Status and Suicidal Behaviors among Adolescents: Correlation or Causation?”
(with Inas Rashad)
Public Policies and Child Well-Being Conference, Atlanta, GA
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
May 15, 2006
“Overweight Status, Perception, and Suicidal Behaviors among Adolescents”
(with Inas Rashad)
Allied Social Science Association Conference, Boston, MA
January, 2006
“Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs”
(with Nancy Reichman, Hope Corman, and Kelly Noonan)
Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington, DC
November, 2005
“Demand for Healthy and Unhealthy Prenatal Inputs”
(with Nancy Reichman, Hope Corman, and Kelly Noonan)
International Health Economics Association World Congress, Barcelona, Spain
July 13, 2005
“Illicit Drug Use Among Arrestees and Drug Prices”
“Risk Preference and the Demand for Alcohol by Older Individuals”
(with Henry Saffer)
“Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health”
(with Kelly Noonan, Nancy Reichman, and Hope Corman)
Population Association of America Annual Program Meeting
April, 2005
“Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health”
(with Kelly Noonan, Nancy Reichman, and Hope Corman)
Eastern Economic Association Conference, New York, NY
March, 2005
“Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health”
(with Kelly Noonan, Nancy Reichman, and Hope Corman)
Allied Social Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA
January 7, 2005
“Illicit Drug Use Among Arrestees and Drug Prices”
Organizer of Session: “Economics of Substance Use”
November 23, 2004
“The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on the Earnings of Older Workers”
24th Arne Ryde Symposium, Lund, Sweden
August 13, 2004
“Demand for Illicit Drugs by Pregnant Women”
(with Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, and Nancy Reichman)
August 14, 2004
“The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Price on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits”
“The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on the Earnings of Older Workers”
(with Henry Saffer)
Eastern Economic Association Conference, Washington, DC
February 21, 2004
“Drug Related Emergency Room Episodes, Drug Prices, and Policy”
Chair & Organizer of Session: “Topics in Health Economics”
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
January 27, 2004
“The Effect of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug Use among Arrestees”
City University of New York, Queens College, Flushing, NY
December 12, 2003
“The Effect of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug Use among Arrestees”
Southern Economic Association Conference, San Antonio, TX
November 21, 2003
“Drug Related Emergency Room Episodes, Drug Prices, and Policy”
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA
October 9, 2003
“The Effect of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug Use among Arrestees”
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA
February 10, 2003
“Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors among Young Adults: Selection Bias?”
Southern Economic Association Conference, New Orleans, LA
November 24, 2002
“Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors among Young Adults: Selection Bias?”
City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 19, 2002
“Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors among Young Adults: Selection Bias?”
Bentley College Research Grant Summers 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Graduate Student Commencement Address 2004
John A. Olin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2003-2004
Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship 2002-2003
Robert E. Gilleece Fellowship 1998-2002
Hazel Vera Dean Fellowship 1996-1997
Walter C. Russell Graduate Fellowship 1994-1995
Rutgers University School of Management Faculty & Dean’s Award 1994
Morris H. Beck Economics Prize 1994
Paul Mahlon Hamlin Memorial Award 1994
Beta Gamma Sigma Academic Excellence Prize 1994
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society 1994
Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society 1994
Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society 1994
Rutgers University Dean of Instruction Award 1992-1993
Yalden Memorial Scholarship 1990-1993
Rutgers Management Society Scholarship 1991
Francis Bartlett Scholarship 1990
Edward Bloustein Distinguished Scholar 1990-1994
Edgewater Club Scholarship 1990
Presidential Academic Fitness Award 1990
Academic Excellence Medallion 1990
National Honor Society 1990
Bergen Record Scholar 1990
Economics Scholarly Activities Committee, Bentley College Fall 2004 - Present
· Chair Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Economics Department Strategic Planning Committee, Bentley College Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Bentley Mathematics Department Search Committee Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Vanguard – Bentley Newspaper
· Columnist on current economic issues Spring 2006
Recording Secretary, Department of Economics Fall 2007 - Spring 2007
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Ph.D. Curriculum Committee, Bentley University, Department of Economics 2005
Doctoral Students Council (City University of New York, Graduate Center, NY)
· Economics Program Representative 2001-2002
Graduate Student Government Association (Rutgers University, NJ)
· Economics Program Representative 1994-1995
Economics & Finance Society (Rutgers University, College of Arts & Sciences, NJ)
· President 1993-1994
· Social Director 1992-1993
· Secretary 1991-1992
Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Policy and Health Outcomes, Substance Use and Abuse
· Eastern Economic Association
· Southern Economic Association
· International Health Economics Association
· American Society of Health Economists
Appointee
Reviewer
Journals
· Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Population Economics, Addiction, Eastern Economic Journal, Review of Economics of the Household, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Beyond Health Insurance (Conference Volume), Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Economic Letters, Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Grant Proposals
· National Institutes of Health - Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel
· National Cancer Institute
· City University of New York
Associate Editor
Journal of Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics (CSBIGS)
Discussant
· Eastern Economic Association Conference, Southern Economic Association Conference, 24th Arne Ryde Symposium
Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, The Record, North Jersey Herald, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Star Phoenix, The Observer, AM 770 Radio, ABC News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Columbus Dispatch, Buffalo News, Grand Rapids Press, Orlando Sentinel
Dr. Michael Grossman mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu 212.817.7959
Graduate Center, City University of New York, NBER, New York, NY
Dr. Robert Kaestner kaestner@uic.edu 312.996.3913
University of Illinois, NBER, Chicago, IL
Dr. Henry Saffer hsaffer@gc.cuny.edu 212.817.7956
Kean University, NBER, Union, NJ
Dr. William Clarke wclarke@bentley.edu 781.891.2143
Bentley University, Waltham, MA
Dr. John Graham jwgraham@andromeda.rutgers.edu 973.353.5259
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Dr. Peter Loeb ploeb@andromeda.rutgers.edu 973.353.5529
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Dr. Sean Nicholson sn243@cornell.edu 647.254.6498
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dr. Patricia Danzon danzon@wharton.upenn.edu 215.898.0694
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA