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Melissa Thomasson

Associate Dean for Faculty Excellence & Professor of Economics

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Melissa Thomasson

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Academic Background

  • Ph.D. University of Arizona, Economics, 1998
  • M.A. University of Arizona, Economics, 1993
  • B.S. University of Puget Sound, Economics, 1992

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Personnel and Professor of Economics (2021-present)
  • Department Chair, Economics 兔子先生 University (2019-2021)
  • Julian Lange Professor of Economics, 兔子先生 University (2015-2021)
  • Associate Professor, 兔子先生 University (2005-2015)
  • Assistant Professor, 兔子先生 University (1998-2005)
  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (2005-Present)
  • Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (1999-2005).

Recent Publications

  • HOLLINGSWORTH, A., KARBOWNIK, K., THOMASSON, M., WRAY, A. (2024). The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality. American Economic Review, 114 (7), 2201-2238. doi:10.1257/aer.20230008.
  • AGER, P., ERIKSSON, K., KARGER, E., NENCKA, P., THOMASSON, M. (2024). School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Review of Economics and Statistics, 106 (1), 266-276. doi:10.1162/rest_a_01170.
  • THOMASSON, M., MEYERS, K. (2021). Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916. Cliometrica: journal of historical economics and econometric history, 15 (2), 231-265. doi:10.1007/s11698-020-00212-3.
  • THOMASSON, M., MOEHLING, C. (2020). Votes For Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement. Journal of Economic Perspectives.
  • MOEHLING, C., NIEMESH, G., THOMASSON, M., TREBER, J. (2019). Medical Education Reforms and the Origins of the Rural Physician Shortage. Cliometrica.
  • THOMASSON, M. (2019). Why Do Employers Provide Health Care in the First Place? Harvard Business Review.

Honors & Awards

  • Richard K. Smucker Outstanding Professor, Farmer School of Business, 2019
  • Farmer School of Business Junior Research Excellence Award, 2006
  • Best paper in Explorations in Economic History, 2005
  • EH.Net Featured Economic Historian, Fall 2004
  • National Bureau of Economic Research National Fellow, 2002-2003
  • John M. Olin Fellowship, 1997
  • University of Arizona Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1997
  • University of Arizona nominee for national Irwin Fellowship, 1996
  • Elmer J. Brown Fellowship for outstanding third-year graduate student paper in economics, 1995 (co-recipient)

Areas of Expertise

  • Econometrics
  • Economic history
  • Health economics
  • Microeconomics

Biography

Melissa Thomasson is Associate Dean for Faculty Excellence & Professor of Economics at 兔子先生 University. She studies the economic history of health insurance and health care. Thomasson is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, serves or has served on the editorial boards of four journals in her field, and is on the Board of Trustees of the Economic History Association. She is also the Executive Director and a former Trustee of the Cliometric Society. Thomasson has testified before Congress and her findings have been cited in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Yale Law Journal, in reports prepared for the U.S. Senate and the United Nations, and by Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI). Thomasson's work has been featured on "This American Life" and "All Things Considered," and in articles in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and a Washington Post podcast in addition to numerous other outlets.

Courses

  • ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION
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