Dean Lillard
Senior Research Associate
2009
PAM

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Current Activities

Current Professional Activities
Dean Lillard is a member of the American Economics Association, the American Society of Health Economists, the Population Association of America, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, and the International Health Economics Association. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the Danish Institute for Social Research.


Current Research Activities
Dean Lillard's current research focuses on the economics of smoking, the economics of advertising, empirical methods for analysis of retrospective data, and the economics of education. Much of his research investigates questions in these areas in a cross-national context. The specific projects on which Dr. Lillard is currently working include:

Smoking Behavior
Dr. Lillard is collaborating with several colleagues both at Cornell and in other institutions to study questions related to the demand and supply of cigarettes. With Rosemary Avery, Donald Kenkel, and Alan Mathios he is studying how smokers are influenced in whether or not they try to quit and whether they succeed in doing so by cigarette prices, the advertising of cigarettes, and the advertising of smoking cessation products. With Andrew Sfekas of Northwestern University Dr. Lillard is investigating whether youth are more likely to try cigarettes when they see more cigarette advertising. With Sfekas he is also studying whether and how cigarette manufacturers strategically market cigarettes. Lillard, Kenkel, and Mathios have a large project that studies whether and how much schooling affects decisions to smoke. Lillard, Kenkel, and Mathios are also examining what factors lead older smokers to quit. This year he launched a new five-year project to study life-course smoking behavior in ten developing and developed countries. He is leading a team of researchers here at Cornell and in five countries to both describe and model life-course smoking patterns. These projects are or have been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes on Aging, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Direct to Consumer Advertising
In this Merck Foundation funded project Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Rosemary Avery and I are studying how regulations of the Food and Drug Administration affect the flow of information about pharmaceutical products. In particular, we are studying whether and how information received by consumers is affected by new rules allowing companies to advertise directly to consumers.

Economics of Education
Dr. Lillard is engaged in a large number of projects related to the economics of education. In addition to the project on schooling and smoking mentioned above, he is analyzing, with Jennifer Gerner, whether children learn more when they enter school at younger ages, whether testing policies make it more likely that children drop out of school, and the causal role that schooling plays on a number of outcomes. For example, he is studying, with Ning Zhang, a PAM Phd who is an assistant professor at the University of Rochester, whether attendance at college causes women to delay their fertility decisions. Dr. Zhang and Dr. Lillard are working with a Cornell economics graduate student Eamon Molloy to develop new instruments to predict college attendance. Thess projects make use of many of the education policies Dr. Lillard has been compiling in earlier research.

Biography

Biographical Statement

Dean Lillard received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1991. He has been a member of the Department Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University since 1991. He is currently Senior Research Associate and Co-Director and Project Manager of the Cross-National Equivalent File study that produces cross-national data. He is also a Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin.

Dean Lillard's current research focuses on health economics, the economics of schooling, and international comparisons of economic behavior. His research in health economics is primarily focused on the economics of cigarette marketing and consumption. His research on the economics of schooling includes studies of direct effects of policy on educational outcomes and on the role that education plays in other economic behaviors such as smoking, production of health, and earnings. His cross-national research ranges widely from comparisons of the role that obesity plays in determining labor market outcomes to comparisons of smoking behavior cross-nationally.



Education


Keywords
Applied economics, smoking, health economics, economics of education, intergenerational earnings correlations, cross-national

Courses, Websites, Pubs

Related Websites
This website links to the description of the Scientific Use files of the German Socio-Economic Panel that I am responsible for distributing to international researchers outside of Gemany:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/PAM/Research/Centers-Programs/German-Panel/index.cfm

This website links to the description of the Cross-National Equivalent File project that I co-direct and manage:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/PAM/Research/Centers-Programs/German-Panel/cnef.cfm



Selected Publications

Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean R., and Liu, Feng. 2009.  “An Analysis of Life-Course Smoking Behavior in China.” Health Economics 18: S147-S156.


Avery, Rosemary, Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean, Mathios, Alan, and Wang, Hua.  2008. "Health Disparities and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceutical Products." Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research vol 19: 71-94. [pre-publication paper]

Frick, Joachim R., Jenkins, Stephen P., Lillard, Dean R., Lipps, Oliver and Wooden, Mark 2007. "The Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and its Member Country Household Panel Studies." Schmoller's Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies). 127 (4): 627-654. [ordering info]

Avery, Rosemary, Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean, and Mathios, Alan.  2007.  "Private Profits and Public Health:  Does DTC Advertising of Smoking Cessation Products Encourage Smokers to Quit?"  Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 115 (3): 447-481  (also NBER working paper 11938). [working paper]

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Lillard, Dean R.  2007.  "The Expanded Cross-National Equivalent File:  HILDA Joins its International Peers."  The Australian Economic Review, Vol. 40 (2): 1–8. [pre-publication paper]

Lillard, Dean R., Plassman, Vandana, Kenkel, Donald, and Mathios, Alan.  2007.  "Who Kicks the Habit and How They Do It:  Socioeconomic Differences across Methods." Social Science and Medicine. 64: 2504-2519. [paper]

Avery, Rosemary, Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean, and Mathios, Alan.  2007.  "Regulating Advertisements:  The Case of Smoking Cessation Products."  Journal of Regulatory Economics Vol. 31 (2): 185-208. (also NBER working paper 12001). [abstract]

Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean R., and Mathios, Alan. 2006. "The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity."  Journal of Labor Economics. Vol. 24 (3): 635-660.  (also NBER working paper 11990). [abstract]