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Call, Kathleen Thiede
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Davern, Michael
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Dowd, Bryan
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Feldman, Roger
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Foote, Susan
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Ayse
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Mosser, Gordon
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Riley, William
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Michael Davern, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 1999.
M.A., Sociology, Colorado State University, 1994.
B.A., Sociology, Saint John’s University, 1992.
daver004@umn.edu
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| Michael Davern,
Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the
Division of Health Policy and Management in
the School of Public Health, and is Research
Director and Co-Principal Investigator of
the State Health Access Data Assistance
Center (SHADAC). His research expertise is
in survey methods and demographic health
data, and in applying these to inform health
policy. His survey methods research includes
work in non-response, measurement error,
imputation, sampling error estimation,
weighting, and production of federal survey
data, as well as other survey data used for
state level policy work.
Davern has published several papers using
core Census Bureau data products, such as
the decennial census, the American Community
Survey, and the Current Population Survey
(CPS). In addition to his Census Bureau data
products expertise, he also works with data
from the National Center for Health
Statistics’ (NCHS) and the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality’s Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). He has
recently begun investigating the importance
of using administrative data to examine
questions of survey nonresponse (item and
unit) and measurement error. The future of
survey research (especially policy
applications) will be closely linked to
integration efforts between these two
sources of data on the population.
As Research Director and Co-Principal
Investigator at SHADAC, Dr. Davern uses his
survey methods expertise to assist states in
their efforts to collect their own survey
data. Specifically, he consults on sample
design, weighting, data editing/imputation,
data analysis strategies, and survey
instrument design. He is currently involved
with several primary data collection
projects centering on health and health
care.
Before joining the University of
Minnesota, Dr. Davern worked as a
statistician for the U.S. Census Bureau.
During his time at the Census Bureau he
conducted evaluations of the methodologies
and estimation techniques used in the Census
Current Population Survey, the American
Community Survey and the Survey of Income
and Program Participation.
Teaches
Using Demographic Data in Policy
Analysis
Aging, Policy, and Demography
Selected Publications
Davern, Michael, Arthur Jones Jr., James
Lepkowski, Gestur Davidson, and Lynn A.
Blewett. Forthcoming Fall 2006.
“Unstable Inferences? An Examination of
Complex Survey Sample Design Adjustments
Using the Current Population Survey for
Health Services Research.” Inquiry.
Blewett, Lynn A. and Michael Davern.
2006. “Meeting the Need for State Level
Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: What
Has Been Done and How it Can Be Improved.”
Health Services Research.
41(3):946-75.
Davern, Michael and David Hachen. 2006.
“Information, Influence and Structural
Holes: How Do Social Networks Affect Job
Mobility.” American Journal of Economics
and Sociology. 65(2):269-93.
Davern, Michael, Holly Rodin, Timothy J.
Beebe, and Kathleen Thiede Call. 2005. “The
Effect of Income Question Design in Health
Surveys on Family Income, Poverty and
Eligibility Estimates.” Health Services
Research. 40(5):1534-1552.
Beebe, Timothy J., Michael Davern, Donna
McAlpine, Kathleen Thiede Call and Todd
Rockwood. 2005. “Increasing response rates
in a survey of Medicaid enrollees: The
effect of a prepaid monetary incentive and
mixed modes (mail and telephone).” Medical Care. 43(4):411-420.
Davern, Michael, James Lepkowski,
Kathleen Thiede Call, Noreen Arnold, Tracy
L. Johnson, Karen Goldsteen, April Todd
Malmlov and Lynn A. Blewett. 2004.
“Telephone Service Interruption Weighting
for State Health Insurance Surveys.”
Inquiry. 41(3) 280-290.
Davern, Michael, Lynn A. Blewett, Boris
Bershadsky and Noreen Arnold. 2004. “Missing
the Mark? Examining Imputation Bias in the
Current Population Survey’s State Income and
Health Insurance Coverage Estimates.”
Journal of Official Statistics. 20(3):
519-49.
Blewett, Lynn A., Michael Davern and
Holly Rodin. 2004. “Covering Kids:
Variations in Health Insurance Coverage
Trends by State, 1996-2002.” Health Affairs.
23(6):170-180.
Davern, Michael, Timothy Beebe, Lynn A.
Blewett, Kathleen Thiede Call. 2003. “Recent
Changes to the Current Population Survey:
Sample Expansion, Health Insurance
Verification and State Health Insurance
Coverage Estimates.” Public Opinion
Quarterly. 67(4):603-26.
Davern, Michael, Lynn A. Blewett, Boris
Bershadsky, Kathleen Thiede Call, and Todd
Rockwood. 2003. “State Variation in SCHIP
Allocations: How Much Is There, What Are Its
Sources, and Can It Be Reduced.” Inquiry.
40(2): 184-197.
Davern, Michael, Todd Rockwood, Randy
Sherrod, and Stephen Campbell. 2003.
“Prepaid Monetary Incentives and Data
Quality in Face-to-Face Interviews: Data
From the 1996 Survey of Income and Program
Participation Incentive Experiment.”
Public Opinion Quarterly. 67(1):139-47.
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and
Management, School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota. 2004 - Present
Research Director, State Health Access
Data Assistance Center, School of Public
Health, University of Minnesota. 2004 -
Present
Research Associate, State Health Access
Data Assistance Center, School of Public
Health, University of Minnesota. 2000 - 2004
Statistician, Labor Force and Transfer
Programs Statistics Branch, US Census
Bureau, 1998 - 2000
Honors
Fesler-Lampert Chair in Aging
Studies, University of Minnesota,
2005-2006.
Eli J. and Helen Shahean Graduate
School Award in the Social Sciences,
University of Notre Dame, 1999
Dissertation Year Fellowship,
Department of Sociology at the
University of Notre Dame 1998 - 1999 and
1996 - 1997
John J. Kane Memorial Award for the
Outstanding Graduate Student in
Sociology, University of Notre Dame 1996
- 1997
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