Dr Jinhu Li
Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Location:
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Level 5, Faculty of Business and Economics Building, 111 Barry Street,
The University of Melbourne
Biography
Jinhu Li joined the Melbourne Institute in May 2011. She obtained her PhD in economics from McMaster University (Canada) in 2011. Her research interests include the determinants and dynamics of health development, incentives and performance in health care, and labour supply behaviour of physicians. She is also interested in the application of microeconometric techniques, in particular panel data modelling methods to various empirical topics in health economics. She is currently working on projects investigating the dynamics of physical and mental health development during childhood and adolescence, the effect of education on health and health-related behaviours, the effect of pay-for-performance incentives on quality of health care, and doctors’ preferences for rural retention incentives.
Research Interests
Health economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Labour Economics
Selected Publications / Papers
Journal Publications
Li, J., and Powdthavee, N., (2015) “Does More Education Lead to Better Health Habits? Evidence from the School Reforms in Australia,” Social Science and Medicine, Volume 127, February 2015, Pages 83–91.
Li, J., Scott, A., McGrail, M., Humphreys, J. and Witt, J., (2014) “Retaining rural doctors: Doctors’ preferences for rural medical workforce incentives.” Social Science and Medicine, Volume 121, November 2014, Pages 56-64.
Li, J., Hurley, J., DeCicca, P. and Buckley, G. (2014) “Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” Health Economics, Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 962-978.
Contoyannis, P. and Li, J. (2011) “The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence,” Journal of Health Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 11-32.
Li, J. and J.S. Racine (2008), “Maxima: An Open Source Computer Algebra System,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 515-523.
Book Chapters
Hurley, J. and J. Li (2014), “Financing incentives and pay-for-performance.” In Marchildon, G.P., & Di Matteo, L. (Eds), Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care: Canada’s Provinces in International Perspective, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Working Papers
Broadway, B., Kalb, G., Li, J. and Scott, A. (2016) “Do financial incentives influence GPs’ decisions to work after hours? A discrete choice labour supply model,” Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 12/16, March 2016 (link)
Contoyannis, P. and Li, J. (2013) “Family Social-economics Status, Childhood Life-events and the Dynamics of Depression from Adolescence to Early Adulthood.” Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 11/13, March 2013 (link)
Hurley, J., Li, J., (2013) “Health Care Funding, Cost-Containment, and Quality”, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) Working Paper Series, Paper 13-01, January 2013 (link)
Li, J., Hurley, J., DeCicca, P. and Buckley, G. (2011) “Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 16909, March 2011 (link)