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Abraham, Jean Marie
(PhD)
Begun, James
(PhD)
Blewett, Lynn
(PhD)
Call, Kathleen Thiede
(PhD)
Christianson, Jon
(PhD)
Davern, Michael
(PhD)
Dowd, Bryan
(PhD)
Feldman, Roger
(PhD)
Foote, Susan
Bartlett
(JD MA)
Garrard, Judith
(PhD)
Grant, Leslie
(PhD)
Gürses,
Ayse
(PhD)
Kane, Robert
(MD)
Kane, Rosalie
(PhD)
Karaca-Mandic, Pinar
(PhD)
Kuntz, Karen
(ScD)
McAlpine, Donna
(PhD)
McBean, A. Marshall
(MD MSc)
McCullough, Jeffrey
(PhD)
Moscovice, Ira
(PhD)
Mosser, Gordon
(MD)
Nyman, John
(PhD)
Potthoff, Sandra
(PhD)
Riley, William
(PhD)
Rockwood, Todd
(PhD)
Sainfort, François
(PhD)
Town,
Robert
(PhD)
Virnig, Beth
(PhD)
Weckwerth, Vernon
(PhD)
Wholey, Douglas
(PhD)
Zismer, Daniel
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Jean Abraham, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Public Policy
Analysis and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001
M.Phil., Public Policy
Analysis and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999
B.A., Economics and
Political Science (Summa Cum Laude), University of Arizona, 1995
abrah042@umn.edu
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| Jean Abraham is
currently an Assistant Professor in the
Division of Health Policy and Management.
Her research specialties include health
economics and policy, industrial
organization, and applied econometrics.
Her current research interests include
household decision-making with respect to
employer-based health insurance, welfare
analysis of health care choice, employer
health benefit design, and hospital market
competition issues.
She has received funding from the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality, the
U.S. Department of Labor, the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, and the Commonwealth
Fund. In 2003, she also won the Class of
1981 Faculty Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
She is a member of the American Economic
Association, International Health Economics
Association, and AcademyHealth.
Teaches
BA 3701H Healthcare Marketplace:
Principals and Agents in a
Trillion-Dollar Economy
PUBH 6541 Statistics for Health
Management Decision Making
PUBH 6555 Topics in Health Economics
PUBH 6561 Quantitative Methods
Applied to Health Administration
Problems
PUBH 6570 Topics: Health Care
Administration
Selected Publications
“Entry and Competition in Local
Hospital Markets,” with Martin Gaynor
and William Vogt, Journal of
Industrial Economics, forthcoming.
“How Do Households Choose Their
Employer-Based Health Insurance?” with
William B. Vogt and Martin Gaynor,
Inquiry, forthcoming.
“The Effect of Quality Information on
Consumer Health Plan Switching: Evidence
from the Buyers Health Care Action
Group,” with Roger Feldman, Caroline
Carlin, and Jon Christianson, (2006),
Journal of Health Economics, 25:
762-781.
“Health Insurance and Labor Market
Outcomes: Joint Decision-Making Within
Households,” with Anne Beeson Royalty,
(2006), Journal of Public Economics,
90: 1561-1577.
“Health Savings Accounts: Early
Estimates of National Take-up from the
2003 Medicare Modernization Act and
Future Policy Proposals,” with Roger
Feldman, Stephen T. Parente, and Jon
Christianson, (2005) Health Affairs,
24(6): 1582-1591.
“Does Having Two Earners in the
Household Matter for Employer-Based
Health Insurance?” with A. Royalty,
Medical Care Research and Review,
62(2), 2005
“Understanding Employee Awareness of
Health Care Quality Information: How Can
Employers Benefit?” with R. Feldman and
C. Carlin, Health Services Research,
39(6), Part I, 2004
"Enter at Your Own Risk: HMO
Participation and Enrollment in the
Medicare Risk Market," with A. Arora, M.
Gaynor and D. Wholey, Economic
Inquiry, Vol. 38(3), 2000.
Professional Experience
Member of the American Economic
Association, International Health
Economics Association, and AcademyHealth
Honors
Class of 1981 Faculty Award for
Excellence in Teaching, 2003
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