Christine Durrance
Credentials: Professor
Email: durrance@wisc.edu
Address:
2438 Sewell Social Sciences
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
About
Christine Durrance is the Curt and Sue Culver Professor in Public Policy Education. As an applied microeconomist, she concentrates in health economics and policy. Her work includes a focus on maternal, infant, and reproductive health; risky behavior including substance use, the opioid crisis, violence, and child maltreatment; and competition in health care markets. Much of her work focuses on vulnerable populations and utilizes secondary-data and robust econometric methods to identify causal effects with important policy implications. Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Child Abuse & Neglect, JAMA Pediatrics, and others.
Curriculum vitae (pdf) Pronouns: she/her
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Education
- Ph.D., University of Florida, Economics
- M.A., University of Florida, Economics
- B.A., Emory University, Economics
Courses
Public affairs courses taught by Christine Durrance:
PA 201 Introduction to Health Policy in the United States
PA 380 Analytic Tools for Public Policy
PA 873 Introduction to Policy Analysis