John A. Nyman, PhD, has research
interests in the theory of health insurance,
cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit
analysis, nursing home behavior and
long-term care policy, the behavior of
physicians, and gambling as a public health
issue. His research and theory papers have
appeared in almost all of the prominent
health economics and health services
research journals.
Dr. Nyman teaches
four graduate-level courses: (1) Economics
of the Health Care System, (2) Health
Insurance (with Roger Feldman), (3)
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care
and (4) Economics of Sex, Drugs and Risky
Behaviors (with Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Bob
Town). He has received awards for
excellence in classroom teaching.
Nyman, John A., Nathan A. Barleen,
Bryan E. Dowd. “A Return-on-Investment
Analysis of the Health Promotion Program
at the University of Minnesota,”
Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine vol. 51, no.
1, January 2009, pp. 54-65.
Nyman, John A., John W. Welte, Bryan
E. Dowd. “Something for Nothing: A Model
of Gambling Behavior,” Journal of
Socio-Economics vol. 37, no. 6,
December 2008, pp. 2492-2504.
Nyman, John A., Nathan A Barleen,
Phatta Kirdruang. “Quality-adjusted Life
Years Lost from Motor Vehicle Accident
Injuries,” Medical Decision Making
vol. 28, no. 6, November-December 2008,
pp. 819-828.
Nyman, John A. “Health Insurance
Theory: The Case of the Missing Welfare
Gain,” European Journal of Health
Economics vol. 9, no. 4, November
2008, pp. 369-380.
Nyman, John A. "Health Plan Switching
and Attrition Bias in the RAND Health
Insurance Experiment," Journal of
Health Politics, Policy and Law
vol. 33, no. 2, April 2008, pp. 309-17.
Nyman, John A. "American Health
Policy: Cracks in the Foundation,"
Journal of Health Politics, Policy
and Law vol. 32, no. 5, October
2007, pp. 759-783.
Nyman, John A., Nathan A. Barleen,
Bryan E. Dowd, Daniel W. Russell,
Stephen Joel Coons, Patrick W. Sullivan.
"Quality-of-Life Weights for the US
Population: Self-Reported Health Status
and priority Health Conditions, by
Demographic Characteristics,"
Medical Care vol. 45, no. 7, July
2007, pp. 618-28.
Nyman, John A. “The Value of Health
Insurance,” in The Elgar Companion
to Health Economics, Andrew M.
Jones, editor. Cheltenham, UK: Edward
Elgar, 2006.
Nyman, John A. “Should the
Consumption of Survivors be Included as
a Cost in Cost-Utility Analysis?”
Health Economics vol. 13, no. 5,
May 2004, pp. 417-427.
Nyman, John A. The Theory of
Demand for Health Insurance.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
2003.
Nyman, John A., Melissa S. Martinson,
David Nelson, Sean Nugent, Dorothea
Collins, Janet Wittes, Carol L. Fye,
Timothy J. Wilt, Sander J. Robins, Hanna
Bloomfield Rubins. "Cost Effectiveness
of Gemfibrozil for Coronary Patients
with Low Levels of High Density
Lipoprotein Cholesterol," Archives
of Internal Medicine vol. 162, no.
2, January 28, 2002, pp.177-184.
Nyman, John A. "The Economics of
Moral Hazard Revisited," Journal of
Health Economics, vol. 18, no. 6,
December 1999, pp. 811-824.
Nyman, John A. "The Value of Health
Insurance: The Access Motive,"
Journal of Health Economics, vol.
18, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 141-152.
Nyman, John A., Willard G. Manning,
Simonetti Samuels and Bernard F. Morrey.
"Can Specialists Reduce Care Costs? The
Case of Orthopaedic Surgeons,"
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related
Research no. 350, 1998, pp.
257-267.
Nyman, John A. and Robert A. Connor.
"Do Case-Mix Adjusted Nursing Home
Reimbursements Actually Reflect Costs?
Minnesota's Experience." Journal of
Health Economics vol. 13, no. 2,
July 1994, pp. 145-162.
Nyman, John A. "Costs, Technology,
and Insurance in the Health Care
Sector," Journal of Policy Analysis
and Management vol. 10, no. 1,
Winter 1991, pp. 106-111.
Nyman, John A. "The Private Demand
for Nursing Home Care," Journal of
Health Economics vol. 8, no. 2,
June 1989, pp. 209-231.
Nyman, John A., and Dennis L.
Bricker. "Profit Incentives and
Technical Efficiency in the Production
of Nursing Home Care," Review of
Economics and Statistics vol. 71,
no. 4, November 1989, pp. 586-594.
Nyman, John A. "The Marginal Cost of
Nursing Home Care: New York, 1983,"
Journal of Health Economics vol. 7,
no. 4, December 1988, pp. 393-412.
Nyman, John A. "Excess Demand, the
Percentage of Medicaid Patients and the
Quality of Nursing Home Care,"
Journal of Human Resources vol. 23,
no. 1, Winter 1988, pp. 76-92.
Nyman, John A. "Prospective and
'Cost-Plus' Medicaid Reimbursement,
Excess Demand, and the Quality of
Nursing Home Care." Journal of
Health Economics vol. 4, no. 3,
September 1985, pp.237-259.
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