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Kathleen J. Mullen

Santa Monica Office

Associate Economist

Education

Ph.D. in economics, University of Chicago

Research Focus

Labor economics; Health economics; Organizational economics; Applied econometrics

RAND Research Areas

Health and Health Care

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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