Department of Finance
Julian Reif is a member of the Substance Use Disorders and Behavioral Health Working Group at IGPA. His primary area of interest is health care economics, with a current research focus on the value of health and the effectiveness of social insurance programs. One of Professor Reif's recent papers argues that the societal value of medical technology is significantly larger than has previously been recognized, especially with respect to medical treatments for severe diseases. The paper also shows that medical treatments act as a form of insurance. Consequently, medical innovation policy can have a large impact on reducing health risks. Another recent paper finds that Medicare Part D, a prescription drug program for the elderly established by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, successfully reduced mortality following its implementation. He also studies energy and environmental policy, such as the gasoline tax, air pollution, and carbon emissions. His recent work in that area includes estimating the effect of air pollution on mortality, medical utilization, and healthcare costs. He finds that the reduction in air pollution over the past twenty years reduced elderly mortality, generating significant social benefits.
IGPA Research By
October 14, 2021Transparency in an Era of Data-Driven Policy: The Importance of Reproducible Research
June 28, 2018Does crop insurance impact water use?
July 26, 2016Does global climate change affect air pollution in Illinois?
May 15, 2015Preparing for Climate Change in Illinois
March 23, 2015Efficiency and distributional effects of Illinois gas taxes
February 18, 2014Increasing the cigarette tax
Don Fullerton is a member of the Fiscal Health of Illinois working group. He researches energy and environmental policy issues, including household garbage and recycling behavior, air and water quality regulation, and climate change policy. He studies the economic effects of these regulations including their cost effectiveness, the distribution of their burdens, and the interactions between environmental policy and other tax policy. He also has done extensive research on taxation issues including the economic incidence and investment incentive effects of the corporate income tax and other federal and state taxes.
IGPA Research By
June 29, 2022Carbon Tax Revenues Can be Used to Help Those Who Lose
June 28, 2018Does crop insurance impact water use?
September 22, 2017Research shows how the Clean Power Plan could reduce local pollution as well as greenhouse gases
July 26, 2016Does global climate change affect air pollution in Illinois?
September 1, 2015Wind power: An opportunity for illinois
May 15, 2015Preparing for Climate Change in Illinois
March 23, 2015Efficiency and distributional effects of Illinois gas taxes
November 17, 2014U.S. Clean Power Plan provides opportunity for significant cuts in state budget deficits
April 14, 2014Interactions among multiple partial budget solutions
February 20, 2014Cap-and-Trade for Illinois?
February 20, 2014The Illinois Report 2014
February 18, 2014A permit trading program for carbon dioxide (Cap and Trade)
February 18, 2014Competing goals of budget reforms
April 1, 2011Green taxes
January 20, 2010The Illinois Report 2010
February 1, 2009Does environmental protection hurt low-income families?