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Nigel Rice is Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Economics and Related Studies and Centre for Health Economics. His current research interests focus on the determinants on health and drivers of health care demand; physical and mental health and labour market participation, productivity, and the role of disability; and early life circumstances and later life outcomes. He also has an interest in applications of microeconometric techniques, in particular approaches to modelling ordered categorical responses, panel data, and health care cost data. He has extensive experience in working with administrative data and longitudinal surveys.
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Nigel has published articles in leading international peer-reviewed journals together with field journals in both health and labour economics. He has also published extensively in journals focused on health services research and health policy. A full list of publications can be found on PURE. He served as a co-editor of the Journal of Health Economics from 2010-2017 and is currently an associate editor for JRSS(A). Andrew Jones, James Lomas and Nigel Rice were awarded the inaugural Willard G. Manning award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics by the American Society of Health Economists in 2016. He has supervised 18 PhD students to completion.
Nigel has extensive experience of grant funded research, including ESRC and MRC awards, and is currently co-investigator on a large programme of research within the Economics of Health and Social Care Research Unit (ESCHCRU III). ESHCRU III is the NIHR Policy Research Unit in the economics of health systems and its interface with social care. It represents a collaboration between the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York and the Care Policy Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at The London School of Economics and Political Science. ESHCRU III aims to provide a long-term resource for policy research and a rapid response service to provide evidence for emerging policy needs. Click here for further information about ESHCRU.