Lillard, Dean R

Senior Research Associate

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 a member of the American Economics Association, the Population Association of America, the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, the International Health Economics Association, the American Society for Health Economics, and a Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin,Germany.

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.

research

research and scholarship focus

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. 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 PAM graduate student Ning Zhang, whether attendance at college causes women to delay their fertility decisions. Together with Kosali Simon and Phd graduate student Maki Ueyama, Dr. Lillard is investigating whether education causes mothers to have healthier children. This project makes use of many of the education policies Dr. Lillard has been compiling in earlier research.

international geographic focus

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

affiliations

academic staff in

other Cornell affiliations

service

current professional activities

  • Dean Lillard has been a member of the department since 1991. He is currently Senior Research Associate and Co-Director and Project Manager of the Cross-National Equivalent File study. He 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. He is also a Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, Germany.

background

educational background

  • Ph.D. (Economics), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 1991
  • M.A. (Economics), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 1986
  • B.A. (Economics), University of Washington, Seattle, WA., cum laude 1983

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • 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.

    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).

    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.

    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.

    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).

    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).

    Burkhauser, Richard V. and Lillard, Dean R. 2005. "The Contribution and Potential of Data Harmonization for Cross-National Comparative Research" Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol 7 (4): 313-330.

    Lillard, Dean, and Burkhauser, Richard V. 2005. "Income Inequality and Health: A Cross-Country Analysis." Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies) Vol. 125(1): 109-118.

    Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean, and Mathios, A. 2004. 'Accounting for Measurement Error in Retrospective Smoking Data.' Health Economics. Vol. 13: 1031-1044.

    Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean R., and Mathios, Alan. 2003. "Smoke or Fire? Are Retrospective Smoking Data Valid?" Addiction 98(9): 1307-1313.
    • Avery, Rosemary, Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean, and Mathios, Alan. forthcoming. "Regulating Advertisements: The Case of Smoking Cessation Products." Journal of Regulatory Economics (also NBER working paper 12001).
    • 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).
    • Burkhauser, Richard V. and Lillard, Dean R. 2005. "The Contribution and Potential of Data Harmonization for Cross-National Comparative Research" Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol 7 (4): 313-330.
    • Cawley, John, Grabka, Markus, and Lillard Dean R. 2005. "A Comparison of the Relationship Between Obesity and Earnings in the U.S. and Germany." Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies) Vol. 125(1): 119-129.
    • Burkhauser, R.V., Giles, P., Lillard, D.R., and Schwarze, J. 2005. "Until Death Do Us Part: An Analysis of the Economic Well-Being of Widows in Four Countries." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Vol. 60B No. 5, S238-S246.
    • Kenkel, D., Lillard, Dean. R., and Mathios, Alan. 2004. ?A Cross-Country Analysis of Tobacco Control Policies and Smoking Over the Life-course, Journal d'Economie Medicale 22(3): 131-143.
    • Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean, and Mathios, A. 2004. ?Accounting for Measurement Error in Retrospective Smoking Data. Health Economics. Vol. 13: 1031-1044.
    • Kenkel, Donald, Lillard, Dean R., and Mathios, Alan. 2003. "Smoke or Fire? Are Retrospective Smoking Data Valid?" Addiction 98(9): 1307-1313.
    • Lillard, Dean R. and DeCicca, P. (2001) "Higher Standards, More Dropouts? Evidence Within and Across Time." Economics of Education Review, Vol.20, no.5, pp 459-473.
    • Lillard, D. R. and Gerner, J. (1999) "Getting to the Ivy League: How Family Composition Affects College Choice." Journal of Higher Education, November/December, pp 706-730. 
    • Couch, K. A. and Lillard, D. R. (1998) "Sample Selection Rules and the Intergenerational Correlation in Earnings." Labour Economics 5 pp 313-329.