Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

Phil DeCicca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan in 2005. In a broad sense, he is interested in the impact of incentives in public policies and programs on individual behaviour. His work focuses on topics in health economics and labour economics and the intersection of the two fields. DeCicca’s current work in health economics builds on an existing interest in the impact of excise taxes on smoking behaviour. He is also involved in work on the relationship between economic conditions and health, as well as the existence and extent of competitive spillovers in public health insurance programs.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• economics of smoking
• economics of other health behaviours
• health insurance
• child health and outcomes

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

DeCicca, P. and L. McLeod (2007). Cigarette taxes and older adult smoking: Evidence from recent large tax increases. Forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics.

DeCicca, P., Kenkel, D. S. and A. Mathios (2007). Cigarette taxes and the transition from youth to young adult smoking. Forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics.

DeCicca, P., Kenkel, D. S. and A. Mathios (2002).  Putting out the fires: Will higher taxes reduce the onset of youth smoking? Journal of Political Economy, 110(1): 144-169.

Lillard, Dean R. and Philip DeCicca (2001).  Higher standards, more dropouts?  Evidence within and across time. Economics of Education Review, 20(5): 459-473.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Health Economic Policy
• Program Evaluation/Applied Econometrics
• Labour Economics
• Methods of Inquiry in Economics