Health Economics
William G. Johnson, Ph.D., is the founder and Director of the Center for Health Information & Research (CHIR), a research center in the School of Computing and Informatics (SCI) in Arizona State University’s (ASU) Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. He is also a Professor in ASU’s newly formed Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI). His previous appointments include the economics department at Rutgers University, Syracuse University, and the medical schools of Rutgers University, the State University of New York, and the University of Arizona.
Professor Johnson’s career research activities include the first empirical studies of labor market discrimination against persons with disabilities, and he authored or co-authored nearly every subsequent empirical study of the problem. He completed the first interview study of the families of asbestos-related death and disease victims in the United States and Canada. Professor Johnson was principal investigator or co-investigator on the first studies of workers’ compensation health care costs in the United States, the first interview study of injured men and women workers in the United States, and the largest interview study of injured workers (conducted in Ontario). He is one of the authors of the Harvard Medical Practice Study, the largest study to date of medical malpractice.
Publications (50)
Impact of Medicaid Disenrollment on Health Care Use and Cost
It pays to be nice: Employer-worker relationships and the management of back pain claims
Self-reported Severity Measures as Predictors of Return-to-work Outcomes in Occupational Back Pain
The effects of occupational injuries after returns to work: Work absences and losses of on-the-job productivity
The effects of cost-shifting in the state children’s heath insurance program
Does network care prolong work absences?
Reducing SCHIP coverage: Saving money or shifting costs?
Cost-based evaluations of the treatment of back pain: a primer for health-care professionals
Workers’ compensation health care and litigation
Effects of Provider Networks on Health Care Costs for Workers With Short-Term Injuries
A note on job mobility among workers with disabilities
The effects of worker heterogeneity on duration dependence: Low-back claims in workers compensation
Cost-effectiveness Studies of Medical and Chiropractic Care for Occupational Low Back Pain: A Critical Review of the Literature
A Heirarchical Theory of Occupational Segregation and Wage Discrimination
The economics of rehabilitation: The difference between efficiency and value
Labor market discrimination against men with disabilities in the year of the A.D.A.
The costs and outcomes of chiropractic and physician care for workers’ compensation back claims
Back pain and work disability: The need for a new paradigm
The future of disability policy: Benefit payments or civil rights?
Cost of treating patients
The costs of epilepsy and cost-based evaluations of anticonvulsants
Why is the treatment of work-related injuries so costly? New evidence from California
The error of using returns-to-work to measure the outcomes of health care.
The employment effects of wage discrimination against black men
Labor market discrimination against men with disabilities in the year of the A.D.A.
Labor market discrimination against women with disabilities.
Inter-regional comparisons of the costs of work related injuries
Managing work disability: Why first return to work is not a measure of success
Labor market discrimination against men with disabilities
First spells of work absences among Ontario workers
The Zenith Project
The sources of employment discrimination: Prejudice or poor information?
Why does workers’ compensation pay more for health care?
Do the poor sue more? A case-control study of malpractice claims and socioeconomic status
The causes of labor market discrimination against persons with disabilities
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Will it make a difference?
A double burden: Labor market discrimination against women with disabilities and implications for public policy
A test of the measures of non-discriminatory wages used to study wage discrimination
The costs of medical injury
The economic consequences of medical injuries
The duration of post-injury absences from work
The duration of post-injury absences from work
Health care costs in workers’ compensation
Health care costs in workers’ compensation
The effect of prejudice on the wages of disabled workers
The rehabilitation act and discrimination against handicapped workers: Does the cure fit the disease?
Compensation for death from asbestos
Employment discrimination
The response of low-income households to income losses from disability
Health and labor force participation