Working Papers / Work in Progress
"Malnutrition and child academic performance in Ethiopia: a longitudinal study." (with Getenet Dessie Ayalew, Tinh Doan, Son Nghiem). Revise and resubmit.
“Does an increased supply of doctors improve population health?” (with Anthony Scott, Letícia Russo, and Hugh Gravelle). Under Review.
"Incorporating budget constraint via cheap talk script in discrete choice experiments (DCEs): an application in health economics" (with Emily Lancsar, Gillian Currie and Cam Donaldson). Under Review.
"Double and Triple Burden of Malnutrition and the Role of Geo-socio-ecological Factors in Ethiopia: A Bayesian Geostatistical Analysis." (with Getenet Dessie Ayalew, Tinh Doan, Son Nghiem). Under Review.
"Eliciting equity weights for quality adjusted life years: a comparison between discrete choice experiment and person trade-off approaches" (with Emily Lancsar, Yuanyuan Gu and Cam Donaldson)
“Preference Heterogeneity for Dimensions of Quality of Life in Aged Care” (with Julie Ratcliffe, Brendan Mulhern, Rachel Milte, Emily Lancsar)
“The causal effect of relative age in school class on mental health among children.” (with Kim Dalziel and Weiben Zhang)
"Agricultural shocks and child health: the impact of desert locust outbreaks on child health in Ethiopia." (with Douglas Kazibwe)
"Parental Education and Offspring Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills." (with Sarah Dahmann)
“Are surgeon and patient preferences misaligned? Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment” (with S. Szawlowski, M. Dowsey, A. Scott et al)
"The causal effect of education on mental health: what can the Australian twins data tell us?" (with Trang My Tran)
Published and Forthcoming Journal Articles
"Universal Secondary Education, Schooling and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Uganda." (with Douglas Kazibwe). Journal of Development Economics, 2025, Volume 174, 103464.
Previous version SSRN Working Paper
"Prevalence and Determinants of Stunting-Anemia, Wasting-Anemia Comorbidities, and Micronutrient Deficiencies in Children Under Five in the Least Developed Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." (with Getenet Dessie, Tinh Doan, Son Nghiem) Nutrition Reviews, (2024): nuae063.
"Methods for health workforce projection model: systematic review and recommended good practice reporting guideline." (with Lee, JT, Crettenden, I, Tran, M, et al.). Human Resource for Health, 2024, vol 22, 25.
"Valuing the Quality of Life Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) instrument for quality assessment and economic evaluation." (with Julie Ratcliffe, Siobhan Bourke, Emily Lancsar, et al). PharmacoEconomics, 2022.
“Physician competition and low value health care.” (with Anthony Scott, Hugh Gravelle, and Matthew McGrail). American Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 8 (2), 252-274.
"Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China." (with Nidhiya Menon). Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 58(3), 454-481.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13171
“How do surgeons’ trade-off between patient outcomes and risk of complications in total knee arthroplasty? A discrete choice experiment in Australia.” (with Sandie Szawlowski, Michelle Dowsey, Anthony Scott, et al). BMJ Open, 2019; 9:e029406.
"Accuracy of patient recall for self‐reported doctor visits: Is shorter recall better?" (with Kim Dalziel, Anthony Scott, and Philip Clarke). Health Economics, 2018, 27(11), 1684-1698.
"The Dynamics of Adolescent Depression: an Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression with Fixed Effects Approach." (with Paul Contoyannis). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2017, 180(3), 907-922.
Online Appendix here | Previous Melbourne Institute working paper version here | Previous HEDG working paper version here
“Do financial incentives influence GPs’ decisions to work after hours? A discrete choice labour supply model,” (with Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, and Anthony Scott). Health Economics, 2017, Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages e52-e66.
Previous versions Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 12/16 | IZA Discussion Paper No. 9910
“Using discrete choice experiments as a decision aid in total knee arthroplasty: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.” (with Michelle Dowsey, et al). Trials, 2016, 17(1), 1.
“Does More Education Lead to Better Health Habits? Evidence from the School Reforms in Australia,” (with Nattavudh Powdthavee). Social Science and Medicine, 2015, Volume 127, February 2015, Pages 83–91.
“Retaining rural doctors: Doctors’ preferences for rural medical workforce incentives.” (with Anthony Scott, Matthew McGrail, John Humphreys, and Julia Witt). Social Science and Medicine, 2014, Volume 121, November 2014, Pages 56-64.
“Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” (with Jeremiah Hurley, Philip DeCicca, and Gioia Buckley). Health Economics, 2014, Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 962-978.
(Previous NBER working paper version here)
“The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence,” (with Paul Contoyannis). Journal of Health Economics, 2011, Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 11-32.
“Maxima: An Open Source Computer Algebra System,” (with Jeffrey Racine). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 515-523.
Published Book Chapters
Hurley, J. and J. Li (2014), “Financing incentives and pay-for-performance.” In Marchildon, G.P., & Di Matteo, L. (Eds), Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care: Canada’s Provinces in International Perspective, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(Previous working paper version here)
"Malnutrition and child academic performance in Ethiopia: a longitudinal study." (with Getenet Dessie Ayalew, Tinh Doan, Son Nghiem). Revise and resubmit.
“Does an increased supply of doctors improve population health?” (with Anthony Scott, Letícia Russo, and Hugh Gravelle). Under Review.
"Incorporating budget constraint via cheap talk script in discrete choice experiments (DCEs): an application in health economics" (with Emily Lancsar, Gillian Currie and Cam Donaldson). Under Review.
"Double and Triple Burden of Malnutrition and the Role of Geo-socio-ecological Factors in Ethiopia: A Bayesian Geostatistical Analysis." (with Getenet Dessie Ayalew, Tinh Doan, Son Nghiem). Under Review.
"Eliciting equity weights for quality adjusted life years: a comparison between discrete choice experiment and person trade-off approaches" (with Emily Lancsar, Yuanyuan Gu and Cam Donaldson)
“Preference Heterogeneity for Dimensions of Quality of Life in Aged Care” (with Julie Ratcliffe, Brendan Mulhern, Rachel Milte, Emily Lancsar)
“The causal effect of relative age in school class on mental health among children.” (with Kim Dalziel and Weiben Zhang)
"Agricultural shocks and child health: the impact of desert locust outbreaks on child health in Ethiopia." (with Douglas Kazibwe)
"Parental Education and Offspring Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills." (with Sarah Dahmann)
“Are surgeon and patient preferences misaligned? Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment” (with S. Szawlowski, M. Dowsey, A. Scott et al)
"The causal effect of education on mental health: what can the Australian twins data tell us?" (with Trang My Tran)
Published and Forthcoming Journal Articles
"Universal Secondary Education, Schooling and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Uganda." (with Douglas Kazibwe). Journal of Development Economics, 2025, Volume 174, 103464.
Previous version SSRN Working Paper
"Prevalence and Determinants of Stunting-Anemia, Wasting-Anemia Comorbidities, and Micronutrient Deficiencies in Children Under Five in the Least Developed Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." (with Getenet Dessie, Tinh Doan, Son Nghiem) Nutrition Reviews, (2024): nuae063.
"Methods for health workforce projection model: systematic review and recommended good practice reporting guideline." (with Lee, JT, Crettenden, I, Tran, M, et al.). Human Resource for Health, 2024, vol 22, 25.
"Valuing the Quality of Life Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) instrument for quality assessment and economic evaluation." (with Julie Ratcliffe, Siobhan Bourke, Emily Lancsar, et al). PharmacoEconomics, 2022.
“Physician competition and low value health care.” (with Anthony Scott, Hugh Gravelle, and Matthew McGrail). American Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 8 (2), 252-274.
"Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China." (with Nidhiya Menon). Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 58(3), 454-481.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13171
“How do surgeons’ trade-off between patient outcomes and risk of complications in total knee arthroplasty? A discrete choice experiment in Australia.” (with Sandie Szawlowski, Michelle Dowsey, Anthony Scott, et al). BMJ Open, 2019; 9:e029406.
"Accuracy of patient recall for self‐reported doctor visits: Is shorter recall better?" (with Kim Dalziel, Anthony Scott, and Philip Clarke). Health Economics, 2018, 27(11), 1684-1698.
"The Dynamics of Adolescent Depression: an Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression with Fixed Effects Approach." (with Paul Contoyannis). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2017, 180(3), 907-922.
Online Appendix here | Previous Melbourne Institute working paper version here | Previous HEDG working paper version here
“Do financial incentives influence GPs’ decisions to work after hours? A discrete choice labour supply model,” (with Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, and Anthony Scott). Health Economics, 2017, Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages e52-e66.
Previous versions Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 12/16 | IZA Discussion Paper No. 9910
“Using discrete choice experiments as a decision aid in total knee arthroplasty: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.” (with Michelle Dowsey, et al). Trials, 2016, 17(1), 1.
“Does More Education Lead to Better Health Habits? Evidence from the School Reforms in Australia,” (with Nattavudh Powdthavee). Social Science and Medicine, 2015, Volume 127, February 2015, Pages 83–91.
“Retaining rural doctors: Doctors’ preferences for rural medical workforce incentives.” (with Anthony Scott, Matthew McGrail, John Humphreys, and Julia Witt). Social Science and Medicine, 2014, Volume 121, November 2014, Pages 56-64.
“Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” (with Jeremiah Hurley, Philip DeCicca, and Gioia Buckley). Health Economics, 2014, Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 962-978.
(Previous NBER working paper version here)
“The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence,” (with Paul Contoyannis). Journal of Health Economics, 2011, Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 11-32.
“Maxima: An Open Source Computer Algebra System,” (with Jeffrey Racine). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 515-523.
Published Book Chapters
Hurley, J. and J. Li (2014), “Financing incentives and pay-for-performance.” In Marchildon, G.P., & Di Matteo, L. (Eds), Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care: Canada’s Provinces in International Perspective, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(Previous working paper version here)