Staff Profiles
Kathleen J. MullenSanta Monica Office Associate Economist EducationPh.D. in economics, University of Chicago |
Research Focus
Labor economics; Health economics; Organizational economics; Applied econometrics
RAND Research Areas
Recent Projects
- Unintended consequences of pay-for-performance in healthcare
- Using policy variation to identify and estimate dynamic structural models of retirement
- Understanding disability insurance claiming and labor supply effects
Selected Publications
Hansen, Karsten T., James J. Heckman, and Kathleen J. Mullen, "The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores", Journal of Econometrics, 121(1,2) 39-98, 2004
Mullen, Kathleen J., Richard G. Frank, and Meredith Rosenthal, "Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-for-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers", Forthcoming, RAND Journal of Economics
Honors & Awards
- 2005 Dennis J. Aigner Award awarded by Journal of Econometrics





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