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Overview

John C. Ham is affiliated with New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Their research spans multiple topics and fields within economics, marketing, health professions, finance, and clinical psychology.

The primary fields of study in their work include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Marketing
  • General Health Professions
  • Finance
  • Clinical Psychology

The scientist has contributed to a range of topics, particularly focusing on healthcare and consumer behavior as well as auction theory. These main topics are:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
  • Auction Theory and Applications

John C. Ham has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Labor Economics
  • Economic Policy
  • Journal of the Economic Science Association
  • International Economic Review

Recent papers illustrate the diversity and focus of their research:

  • "The Employment Impact of the Provision of Public Health Insurance: A Further Examination of the Effect of the 2005 TennCare Contraction" (2020) published in Journal of Labor Economics
  • "New Rankings of Economics Journals: Documenting and Explaining the Rise of the New Society Journals" (2021) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Health outcomes, personality traits and eating disorders" (2020) published in Economic Policy
  • "Instrumental variables estimation of a simple dynamic model of bidding behavior in private value auctions" (2020) published in Journal of the Economic Science Association
  • "Recombinant Innovation, Novel Ideas, and the Start of Nobel Prize-Winning Work" (2025) published in International Economic Review

Collaborations are a significant element of their work, frequently coauthoring with:

  • Julian Wright
  • Ziqiu Ye
  • Jan Stoop
  • Aurélie Dariel
  • Nikos Nikiforakis

Best Publications

  • Education, Unemployment and Earnings

    Orley Ashenfelter;John C. Ham

  • THE EFFECT OF SAMPLE SELECTION AND INITIAL CONDITIONS IN DURATION MODELS: EVIDENCE FROM EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON TRAINING

    John C. Ham;Robert J. Lalonde

  • Unemployment Insurance and Male Unemployment Duration in Canada

    John C. Ham;Samuel A. Rea

  • Estimation of a Labour Supply Model with Censoring Due to Unemployment and Underemployment

    John C. Ham

  • Government programs can improve local labor markets: Evidence from State Enterprise Zones, Federal Empowerment Zones and Federal Enterprise Community

    John C. Ham;Charles Swenson

  • Unemployment and Female Labour Supply

    Richard William Blundell;John Ham;Costas Meghir

  • Unemployment and the Social Safety Net during Transitions to a Market Economy: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics

    John C. Ham;Jan Svejnar;Katherine Terrell

  • The Impact of Being Offered and Receiving Classroom Training on the Employment Histories of Disadvantaged Women: Evidence from Experimental Data

    Curtis Eberwein;John C. Ham;Robert J. Lalonde

  • Selection Bias, Demographic Effects, and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments

    Marco Casari;John C. Ham;John H. Kagel

  • The effect of Medicaid expansions for low-income children on Medicaid participation and private insurance coverage: evidence from the SIPP

    John C Ham;Lara D Shore-Sheppard;Lara D Shore-Sheppard

  • Testing whether unemployment represents intertemporal labour supply behaviour

    John C. Ham

  • Unemployment, discouraged workers and female labour supply

    Richard Blundell;John Ham;Costas Meghir

  • Testing Intertemporal Substitution, Implicit Contracts, and Hours Restriction Models of the Labor Market using Micro Data

    John C. Ham;Kevin T. Reilly

  • The Hausman Test and Weak Instruments

    Jinyong Hahn;John C. Ham;Hyungsik Roger Moon

  • Variation in Employment Growth in Canada: The Role of External, National, Regional, and Industrial Factors

    Joseph G. Altonji;John C. Ham

  • Priorities and Sequencing in Privatization: Theory and Evidence from the Czech Republic

    Nandini Gupta;John C. Ham;Jan Svejnar

  • Women's Unemployment During Transition: Evidence from Czech and Slovak Micro-data

    John C. Ham;Jan Svejnar;Katherine Terrell

  • Matching and semi-parametric IV estimation, a distance-based measure of migration, and the wages of young men

    John C. Ham;Xianghong Li;Patricia B. Reagan

  • Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation

    John C. Ham;Lara D. Shore-Sheppard;Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

  • The Medicaid Program

    Thomas Buchmueller;John Ham;Lara Shore-Sheppard

  • The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP

    John Ham;Lara Dawn Shore-Sheppard

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Svejnar
Jan Svejnar Columbia University
John H. Kagel
John H. Kagel The Ohio State University
Joseph G. Altonji
Joseph G. Altonji Yale University
Katherine Terrell
Katherine Terrell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert Lalonde
Robert Lalonde University of Rouen
Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir Yale University
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Thomas C. Buchmueller
Thomas C. Buchmueller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University
Bruce A. Weinberg
Bruce A. Weinberg The Ohio State University

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