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								Joseph Vincent																 Terza

Joseph Vincent Terza

Professor of Economics (Retired)
Department: Economics

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Professor Terza’s primary area of research is the development and application of econometric methods for health policy analysis, health economics and health services research in nonlinear regression contexts involving endogeneity. His paper on two-stage residual inclusion has been extremely influential. In fact, a distinguished health econometrician has noted that it “…changed the way health economists estimate models that are nonlinear and have an endogenous explanatory variable. These models are common and his methods are now widely used.” His main fields of interest in health policy include: the analysis of the labor market outcomes of individuals with spinal cord injury; the economic causes and consequences of substance abuse, the economics of nicotine and tobacco use; and the behavioral economics of obesity. His research has been supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Commonwealth Fund, RWJF – Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization, and others. In the past he has served as Associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and currently serves on the editorial boards of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics and Health Services Research. He is also a member of the AcademyHealth Methods Council and the AcademyHealth Health Services Research Learning Consortium. Professor Terza retired from IU Indianapolis in January 2025.

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