John Mullahy

7.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

John Mullahy is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, John Mullahy has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 35 papers in General Health Professions and 13 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in John Mullahy's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (23 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (20 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (14 papers). John Mullahy is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (23 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (20 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (14 papers). John Mullahy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and United Kingdom. John Mullahy's co-authors include Aaron A. Stinnett, Jody L. Sindelar, Wang Hong, Paul R. Portney, David A. Kindig, Willard G. Manning, Hong Wang, Anirban Basu, Stéphanie Robert and Edward C. Norton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

John Mullahy

74 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Specification and testing of some modified count data models 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 1998 1998 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Specification and testing of some modified count data models
    1986 1.3k citations John Mullahy profile →
  2. Net Health Benefits
    1998 866 citations John Mullahy et al. profile →
  3. Much ado about two: reconsidering retransformation and the two-part model in health econometrics
    1998 529 citations John Mullahy Journal of Health Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Mullahy United States 28 2.2k 1.4k 659 538 440 77 5.2k
Anirban Basu United States 39 3.7k 1.7× 2.4k 1.7× 563 0.9× 818 1.5× 562 1.3× 221 9.0k
F. Reed Johnson United States 44 4.8k 2.2× 1.7k 1.2× 291 0.4× 654 1.2× 553 1.3× 177 8.4k
Alexis Diamond United States 11 2.8k 1.3× 632 0.5× 586 0.9× 205 0.4× 1.4k 3.2× 16 6.0k
Partha Deb United States 32 1.7k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 263 0.4× 344 0.6× 325 0.7× 89 4.4k
Nathaniel Schenker United States 26 612 0.3× 647 0.5× 1.4k 2.1× 467 0.9× 605 1.4× 65 6.7k
Dylan S. Small United States 50 1.5k 0.7× 1.8k 1.3× 2.1k 3.2× 1.2k 2.2× 367 0.8× 343 9.9k
Peter Lynn United Kingdom 28 643 0.3× 583 0.4× 578 0.9× 328 0.6× 1.4k 3.3× 101 4.8k
Terry N. Flynn Australia 40 4.0k 1.8× 2.3k 1.7× 234 0.4× 349 0.6× 655 1.5× 74 7.2k
Paul R. Rosenbaum United States 47 2.1k 1.0× 989 0.7× 3.3k 5.1× 358 0.7× 664 1.5× 198 8.8k
Onyebuchi A. Arah United States 46 939 0.4× 2.2k 1.6× 270 0.4× 412 0.8× 361 0.8× 249 7.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Mullahy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mullahy, John & Edward C. Norton. (2023). Why TransformY? The Pitfalls of Transformed Regressions with a Mass at Zero*. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 86(2). 417–447. 31 indexed citations
2.
Mullahy, John. (2023). Analyzing Bounded Count Data. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Mullahy, John. (2018). Individual results may vary: Inequality-probability bounds for some health-outcome treatment effects. Journal of Health Economics. 61. 151–162. 6 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John. (2014). Multivariate Fractional Regression Estimation of Econometric Share Models. PubMed. 4(1). 71–100. 80 indexed citations
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Martini, Gianmaria, Paolo Berta, John Mullahy, & Giorgio Vittadini. (2014). The effectiveness–efficiency trade-off in health care: The case of hospitals in Lombardy, Italy. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 49. 217–231. 21 indexed citations
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Cheng, Erika R., Julie Poehlmann, John Mullahy, & Whitney P. Witt. (2014). Cumulative Social Risk Exposure, Infant Birth Weight, and Cognitive Delay in Infancy. Academic Pediatrics. 14(6). 581–588. 13 indexed citations
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Antillón, Marina, Diane S. Lauderdale, & John Mullahy. (2014). Sleep behavior and unemployment conditions. Economics & Human Biology. 14. 22–32. 41 indexed citations
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Alghnam, Suliman, Mari Palta, Patrick Remington, John Mullahy, & Maureen S. Durkin. (2013). The association between motor vehicle injuries and health-related quality of life: a longitudinal study of a population-based sample in the United States. Quality of Life Research. 23(1). 119–127. 21 indexed citations
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Sickle, David Van, Sheryl Magzamen, & John Mullahy. (2011). Understanding Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Adult Lung Function. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 184(5). 521–527. 35 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John. (2010). Multivariate Fractional Regression Estimation of Econometric Share Models. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John. (2009). Econometric Modeling of Health Care Costs and Expenditures. Medical Care. 47(7_Supplement_1). S104–S108. 62 indexed citations
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Hong, Wang & John Mullahy. (2006). Willingness to pay for reducing fatal risk by improving air quality: A contingent valuation study in Chongqing, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 367(1). 50–57. 163 indexed citations
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Hilton, Michael E., Michael F. Fleming, Henry A. Glick, et al.. (2003). Services Integration and Cost‐Effectiveness. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 27(2). 271–280. 6 indexed citations
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Vermeulen, Lee C., et al.. (2002). Factors Influencing Decisions Regarding Influenza Vaccination and Treatment: A Survey of Healthcare Workers. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 23(10). 625–627. 68 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John. (2001). Estimations of Limited Dependent Variable Models with Dummy Endogenous Regressors: Simple Strategies for Empirical Practice: Comment. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 19(1). 23–25. 2 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John. (1998). Much ado about two: reconsidering retransformation and the two-part model in health econometrics. Journal of Health Economics. 17(3). 247–281. 529 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mullahy, John. (1998). Instrumental-Variable Estimation of Count Data Models: Applications to Models of Cigarette Smoking Behavior. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John & Jody L. Sindelar. (1998). Drinking, Problem Drinking, and Productivity. Recent developments in alcoholism. 14. 347–359. 11 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John & Jody L. Sindelar. (1996). Employment, unemployment, and problem drinking. Journal of Health Economics. 15(4). 409–434. 166 indexed citations
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Mullahy, John & Jody L. Sindelar. (1991). Gender differences in labor market effects of alcoholism. American Economic Review. 81(2). 161–165. 76 indexed citations

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