Research
Last updated February 2025.
My research interests are in the fields of health economics, labor economics, and public economics.
At the BEA, I have cleaned, organized, and analyzed medical claims data from private insurers, Medicaid (MAX and TAF), and Medicare to research improvements to the Healthcare Satellite Account. I have researched how to incorporate prescription drug rebates into accounts of healthcare spending. I am currently working on proposing a Satellite Account for Human Capital at BEA, and am researching the potential of card transaction data to provide timely forecasts of consumer spending for national accounting purposes.
Publications
Mallatt, Justine, Abe Dunn and Lasanthi Fernando. "Consumer Out-Of-Pocket Drug Prices Grew Faster Than Prices Faced by Insurers After Accounting For Rebates, 2007-2020: Article examines out-of-pocket drug prices." Health Affairs 43.9 (2024): 1284-1289.
Maclean, Johanna Catherine, Justine Mallatt, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Kosali Simon. "The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Studies." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2022), 703(1), 15-49. Link to draft.
Abraham, Katharine G., and Justine Mallatt. "Measuring Human Capital." Journal of Economic Perspectives 36.3 (2022): 103-30. Link to draft.
Mallatt, Justine. "Policy-induced substitution to illicit drugs and implications for law enforcement activity." American Journal of Health Economics 8.1 (2022): 30-64. Link.
Maclean, Johanna Catherine, Justine Mallatt, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Kosali Simon. "Economic Studies on the Opioid Crisis: Costs, Causes, and Policy Responses." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. 2021. Link to draft.
Working Papers
"The Use of Real-Time Spending Sources for Economic Measurement: An Analysis Using Multiple Data Sources." Draft available. 2025.
"State Insulin Price Cap Levels and Out-of-Pocket Spending," (with Paul Eliason and Eli Liebman). Under review. 2025.
"Lead in Drinking Water and Child Health: Evidence from Jackson, Mississippi," (with Eunsik Chang and Kendall Kennedy). Under review. 2025. Available at SSRN 5098288.
"The value of medical care in the United States: changes in lifetime spending and health-adjusted life-expectancy, 1996 to 2016," (with Marcia Weaver, Calvin Ackley, Joseph L Dieleman, Abe Dunn, Esha Dwibedi, and Lasanthi Fernando). Under review. 2025.
In Progress
"The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Fee Bump on Provider Participation, Beneficiary Care, and Medicaid Payments," (with Calvin Ackley). Draft forthcoming. 2025.
"A Satellite Account for Human Capital at BEA: Incorporating Investment In Human Capital into GDP." Draft forthcoming. 2025.
Older Working Papers
“The Effect of Supply-Side Opioid Legislation on Opioid-Related Business Establishments”
"The Effect of Pharmacist Refusal Clauses on Contraceptive Substitution and Birthrates"
Keg Registration Laws and Underage Drinking, Fatal Car Crashes, and Crime Offenses (with Jillian Carr) (early draft, please email if interested)
First Order Effects of the OxyContin Reformulation: Legal Substitutes for OxyContin (early draft, please email if interested)