Edward C. Norton, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy

Professor, Department of Economics

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

M3108 SPH II
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Office: (734) 615-5738; Fax: (734) 764-4338

E-mail: ecnorton@umich.edu

Website(s): Personal web site; Health Economics Seminar Schedule; Health Econometrics (Lectures and Stata code, with Partha Deb & Will Manning)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 105,322 KB)

Professional Summary

Edward C. Norton joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2008 as professor in both the SPH Department of Health Management and Policy and in the Department of Economics. He is an associate director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. In addition to his affiliations with the University of Michigan, Edward is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Health Economics Program.  Before coming to Michigan, he taught at UNC at Chapel Hill and at Harvard Medical School. His research interests in health economics include long-term care and aging, and econometrics. In 2003, UNC at Chapel Hill awarded him the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty.

Courses Taught

HMP663: Economics of Health Management and Policy II    Syllabus (PDF)
HMP826: Applied Econometrics in Health Services Research    Syllabus (PDF)

Education

Ph.D., Economics, MIT, 1990
A.B., Economics, Princeton University, 1986

Research Interest & Projects

Health economics, long-term care and aging, and econometrics.

Selected Publications

Yang, Z., Gilleskie, D. B., and Norton, E. C. (2009). Health Insurance, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics. Journal of Human Resources, 44(1), 47-114.

Ai, C. and Norton, E. C. (2008). A Semiparametric Derivative Estimator in Log Transformation Models. The Econometrics Journal, 11(3), 538-553.

Norton, E. C., and Han, E. (2008). Genetic Information, Obesity, and Labor Market Outcomes. Health Economics, 17(9), 1089-1104.

Van Houtven, C. H. and Norton, E. C. (2008). Informal care and Medicare expenditures: Testing for heterogeneous treatment effects. Journal of Health Economics, 27(1), 134-156.

Norton, E. C. and Van Houtven, C. H. (2006). Inter-vivos Transfers and Exchange. Southern Economic Journal, 73(1), 157-172.

Van Houtven, C. H. and Norton, E. C. (2004). Informal care and health care use of older adults. Journal of Health Economics, 23(6), 1159-1180.

Stearns, S. C. and Norton, E. C. (2004). Time to Include Time to Death? The Future of Health Care Expenditure Predictions. Health Economics, 13(4), 315-327.

Ai, C. and Norton, E. C. (2003). Interaction Terms in Logit and Probit Models. Economics Letters, 80(1), 123-129.

Norton, E. C., Lindrooth, R. C., and Ennett, S. T. (1998). Controlling for the Endogeneity of Peer Substance Use on Adolescent Alcohol and Tobacco Use. Health Economics, 7(5), 439-453.

Norton, E. C., and Staiger, D. O. (1994). How Hospital Ownership Affects Access to Care for the Uninsured RAND Journal of Economics, 25(1), 171-185.