Faculty - Mark Votruba

Associate Professor, Economics
Adjunct associate professor, University of Stavanger
Research Associate , Statistics Norway

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003
M.A., Princeton University, 1999
M.A., University of Chicago, 1995
B.S., Centre College of Kentucky, 1992

How does plant downsizing affect the welfare of employees and their children? Is the use of public support programs affected by use among one's peers? These are just two of the questions Mark Votruba tackles in his research in public policy and health economics. Mark's third area of focus is how medical resources are allocated in the U.S. health care system. He's examined the consequences of referring stroke patients to hospitals that treat more stroke patients; potential cost savings of treatments to reduce premature birth; and influences on insurers' willingness to pay for treatments that could reduce long-term medical costs.

Interests

Teaching

Health economics; public economics; labor economics.

Research

Health Economics: Allocation of Medical Resources, Incentives for Care, Insurance Markets.
Public/Labor Economics: Social Program Participation, Social Interactions Effects, Effects of Job Loss, Childhood Exposures.

Selected Publications

• Votruba, M., Rege, M., Telle, K. (2012). Social Interaction Effects in Disability Pension Participation: Evidence from Plant Downsizing Scandanavian Journal of Economics.
• Rebitzer, J., Votruba, M. (2011). Organizational Economics and Physician Practices NBER.
• Rege, M., Telle, K., Votruba, M. (2011). Parental Job Loss and Children's School Performance (vol. 78, issue 4, pp. 1462-1489). Review of Economic Studies.
• Kalil, A., Mogstad, M., Rege, M., Votruba, M. (2011). Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data (vol. 48, issue 3, pp. 1005-1027). Demography.
• Cebul, R., Rebitzer, J., Taylor, L., Votruba, M. (2011). Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance (vol. 101, issue 5, pp. 1842-71). American Economic Review.
• Kalil, A., Mogstad, M., Rege, M., Votruba, M. (2011). Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data (vol. 48, issue 3, pp. 1005-1027). Demography.
• Kalil, A., Mogstad, M., Rege, M., Votruba, M. (2011). Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data Demography.
• Votruba, M. (2010). Trans Fats, the Rational Consumer, and the Role of Government (vol. 12, issue 10, pp. 804-811). Virtual Mentor: The AMA Journal of Ethics.
• Kalil, A., Mogstad, M., Rege, M., Votruba, M. (2009). Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data (dp#4715 ed., ). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
• Rege, M., Telle, K., Votruba, M. (2009). The Effect of Plant Downsizing on Disability Pension Utilization (vol. 7, issue 4, pp. 754-785). Journal of the European Economic Association.
• Cebul, R., Rebitzer, J., Taylor, L., Votruba, M. (2009). Fixing what's broken: The economics of the public insurance option Cleveland, OH: The Plain Dealer .
• Votruba, M., Rege, M., Telle, K. (2009). Social Interaction Effects in Disability Pension Participation: Evidence from Plant Downsizing (wp#2009-30 ed., ). Stavanger: Univ of Stavanger, working papers in economics and finance.
• Votruba, M., Kling, J. (2009). Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics on the Mortality of Male Black Youth: Evidence from Gautreaux, Chicago (vol. 68, issue 5, pp. 814-823). Social Science and Medicine.
• Cebul, R., Rebitzer, J., Taylor, L., Votruba, M. (2008). Organization Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System (vol. 22, issue 4, pp. 93-113). Journal of Economic Perspectives.
• Rege, M., Telle, K., Votruba, M. (2007). Parental Job Loss and Children's School Performance (dp#517 ed., ). Statistics Norway .
• Rege, M., Telle, K., Votruba, M. (2007). Plant Closure and Marital Dissolution (dp#514 ed., ). Statistics Norway .
• Votruba, M., Rege, M., Telle, K. (2007). Social Interaction Effects in Disability Pension Participation: Evidence from Plant Downsizing (dp#496 ed., ). Statistics Norway .

Awards

• 20th Annual Arrow Award, International Health Economics Association. (2013).
• Weatherhead Undergraduate Teaching Award finalist, WSOM. (2010).