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Robert J. Town, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and
Co-Director, MS-HSRP&A Program
Holder of the James A. Hamilton Professorship of Health
Economics
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1990
M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987
B.A., Economics, University of Washington, 1984
rjtown@umn.edu Office
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Robert J. Town
has expertise in the areas of health
economics, industrial organization and
applied econometrics. His research focuses
on competition in the health care
marketplace. Dr. Town has studied the impact
of hospital network formation on competitive
outcomes, the role of competition in
determining hospital quality and the
appropriate antitrust policy in health care
and health insurance markets. He is a
Research Associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research. Prior to joining HPM, he
was an assistant professor in the Graduate
School of Management at the University of
California--Irvine and a staff economist in
the Antitrust Division at the U.S.
Department of Justice.
Teaches
Health Economics
Medical Technology Evaluation
Selected Publications
Town, R., Wholey, D. Feldman, L.
Burns, "The
Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers,"
2006.
Town, R., Wholey, D., Feldman, R. and
Burns, L.R. “Revisiting the Relationship
between Managed Care and Hospital
Consolidation,” Health Services
Research, 2006, forthcoming.
Antonovics, K. and Town, R. “Are All
the Good Men Married: Uncovering the
Sources of the Marital Wage Premium”
American Economic Review, May,
94(2), 2004, 317-321.
Geweke, J, Gowrisankaran, G., and
Town, R. “Inferring Hospital Quality
from Patient Discharge Records Using a
Bayesian Selection Model,”
Econometrica, 71(4), 2003,
1215-1238.
Town, R. and Lui, S. “The Welfare
Impact of Medicare HMOs,” The RAND
Journal of Economics, 34(4), 2003,
719-736.
Gowrisankaran, G., and Town, R.
“Competition, Payers and Hospital
Quality,” Health Services Research,
38(6), 2003, 1403-1421.
Town, R. and Vistnes, G. "Hospital
Competition in HMO Networks,” Journal
of Health Economics, 20(4), 2001,
733-53.
Town, R. “The Welfare Effects of HMO
Mergers,” The Journal of Health
Economics, 20(6), 2001, 967-90.
Gowrisankaran, G. and Town, R.
“Dynamic Equilibrium in the Hospital
Industry,” Journal of Economics and
Management Strategy,” 6(1), 1997,
45-74.
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Division of
Health Policy and Management, School of
Public Health, University of Minnesota,
2001 - present
Faculty Research Fellow, National
Bureau of Economic Research, 2004 -
present
Assistant Professor, Graduate School
of Management, University of California,
Irvine, 1996 - 2001
Assistant Professor (Courtesy
Appointment), Department of Economics,
University of California, Irvine, 1997 -
2001
Visiting Scholar, Boston University,
Department of Economics, 2001
Visiting Scholar, University of
Washington, Department of Economics,
2000
Staff Economist, U.S. Department of
Justice, Antitrust Division, 1990 - 1996
Victor Kramer Fellow, Yale
University, 1993 - 1994
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