Elizabeth R. Vigdor, Research Scholar, Center for Health Policy  

Office Location: 192 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9264
Email Address: elizabeth.vigdor@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Health Policy, Economics
  • Public Finance
    • Education Finance
    • Revenue Forecasting
    • State and Local Government Finance
    • Tax and Expenditure Analysis

Education:
PhD, Harvard University, 1999

Research Categories: Health Policy and Health Economics

Research Description: Research: Health economics

Teaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

  • Pubpol 111.01, Intro to u.s. health care syst
    Sanford 05, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
  • Pubpol 267s.01, Value for money in health care Synopsis
    Sanford 102, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. E. Vigdor and James A. Mercy. "Do Laws Restricting Access to Firearms by Domestic Violence Offenders Prevent Intimate Partner Homicide?." Evaluation Review (2006).
  2. Wilhelmine Miller, E. Vigdor and Willard Manning. "Covering the Uninsured: What is it Worth?." Health Affairs (2004).
  3. E. Vigdor. "Coverage Does Matter: The Value of Health Forgone by the Uninsured." Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America The National Academies Press. (Summer, 2003).
  4. E. Vigdor and James A. Mercy. "Disarming Batterers: The Impact of Laws Restricting Access to Firearms by Domestic Violence Offenders." Evaluating Gun Policy. Ed. Philip J. Cook and Jens O. Ludwig Brookings Press, Spring, 2003
  5. Cutler, David M., Arnold M. Epstein, Richard G. Frank, Raymond Hartman, Charles III King, Joseph P. Newhouse, Meredith B. Rosenthal, and E. Vigdor. "How Good a Deal was the Tobacco Settlement?: Assessing Payments to Massachusetts." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 21.2 (2000): 235-261.

Bio/Profile
Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor is a research scholar in the Center for Health Policy at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. She has a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard and a Master's of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health economics, particularly the uninsured, measurement of health, and firearm policy.

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