JS Butler - Ph.D.

Teaching Activities

• I teach statistics in PHR 940, formerly known as PHR 949, to PharmD students.
• I teach econometrics in PA 692 in the Martin School.
• I have supervised a dozen Ph.D. dissertations and served on the committees of more than 60 dissertation students.

Selected Publications/Presentations

• "Analysis of Morbidity in Liver Transplant Recipients following Human Albumin Supplementation: A Retrospective Pilot Study" (with P.N. Johnson, F. Romanelli, K.M. Smith, and T.M. Clifford. Progress in Transplantation 2007(16):197-205.
• "A Quality Adjusted Wage Index" (with Jennjou Chen), Economics Bulletin 10 No. 13(2006):1-14.
• "Levels and Long-Term Trends in Earning Inequality: Overcoming Current Population Survey Censoring Problems Using the GB2 Distribution" (with Schuaizhang Feng and Richard V. Burkhauser), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 24(2006):57-62.
• "The Relationship of Board Certification to Financial and Professional Benefits for Pharmacy Practice Faculty" (with Frank Romanelli, Melody Ryan, and Kelly M. Smith) Journal of Pharmacy Teaching 12(2005):109-116.
• "The Relationship of Board Certification to Financial and Professional Benefits for Pharmacy Practice Faculty" (with Frank Romanelli, Melody Ryan, and Kelly M. Smith) Journal of Pharmacy Teaching 12(2005):109-116.
• "Factors Leading Patients to Discontinue Multiple Sclerosis Therapies" (with Kimberly K. Daugherty, Michelle Mattingly, and Melody Ryan), forthcoming, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 45(2005):371-375.
• "Legislating Love: The Effect of Paternity, Child Support, and Welfare Policies on Father-Child Contact" (with Laura Argys, H. Elizabeth Peters, and Heather Wynder), Review of Economics of the Household 2(2004):255-274.
• "Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing" (with Richard V. Burkhauser and Gulcin Gumus), Journal of Applied Econometrics 19(2004):671-685.
• "Labor Supply and Wages Among Nuclear and Extended Households: The Surinamese Experiment" (with Andrew W. Horowitz), Journal of Development Studies 36(2000):1-29.
• "Efficiency Results of MLE and GMM Estimation using Sampling Weights, "Journal of Econometrics 96(2000):25-37.
• "The Importance of Accommodation on the Timing of Disability Insurance Applications: Results from the Survey of Disability and Work and the Health and Retirement Study" (with Richard V. Burkhauser, Yang-Woo Kim, and Robert R. Weathers II), Journal of Human Resources 34(1999):589-611.
• "Tests of the Specification of Univariate and Bivariate Ordered Probit" (with Patrali Chatterjee), Review of Economics and Statistics 79(1997):343-347.
• "Does More Calculus Improve Student Learning in Intermediate Micro and Macro Economic Theory?" (with T. Aldrich Finegan and John J. Siegfried), American Economic Review 84(1994):206-210.
• "Maximum Score Estimates of the Determinants of Residential Mobility, Implications for the Value of Residential Attachment and Neighborhood Amenities" (with Timothy J. Bartik), Journal of Urban Economics 32(1992):233-256.
• "Work and Health after Retirement: A Semiparametric Bivariate Interval Hazard Model" (with Kathryn H. Anderson and Richard V. Burkhauser) Review of Economics and Statistics 71(1989):46-53.
• "A Computationally Efficient Quadrature Procedure for the One-Factor Multinomial Probit Model" (with Robert Moffitt), Econometrica, 50(1982):761-764.