Monetary values of increasing life expectancy: Sensitivity to shifts of the survival curve.
Hammitt JK, Tunçel T.
J Risk Uncertain. 2023 May 10. 1-31. PMID: 37360985
Primary Faculty
James K. Hammitt
Other Positions
Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences
Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
CHDS Core Faculty
Center for Health Decision Science
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Senior Common Room, Winthrop House
Winthrop House -Other Academic
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Overview
Professor Hammitt's research concerns the development and application of quantitative methods—including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis—to health and environmental policy. Topics include management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion, evaluation of ancillary benefits and countervailing risks associated with risk-control measures, and characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks using revealed-preference, stated-preference, and health-utility methods. He has served on six National Academies of Sciences panels and more than a dozen advisory committees to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society for Risk Analysis in 2015 and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis in 2021 and is a fellow of both societies.
AB, 1978, Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ScM, 1978, Applied Mathematics
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
MPP, 1981, Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
PhD, 1988, Public Policy
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bibliography
Consistent valuation of a reduction in mortality risk using values per life, life year, and quality-adjusted life year.
Hammitt JK.
Health Econ. 2023 09. 32(9):1964-1981. PMID: 37138383
Reappraising the public health benefits conferred by environmental policy: Considerations for an aging society.
Festa N, Hsu J, Hammitt JK, Gill TM.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 04. 71(4):1291-1299. PMID: 36585900
Valuing COVID-19 Morbidity Risk Reductions.
Robinson LA, Eber MR, Hammitt JK.
J Benefit Cost Anal. 2022. 13(2):247-268. PMID: 36090595
Prevention, treatment, and palliative care: The relative value of health improvements under alternative evaluation frameworks.
Hammitt JK.
J Health Econ. 2022 07. 84:102643. PMID: 35688094
Valuing non-marginal changes in mortality and morbidity risk.
Herrera-Araujo D, Rheinberger CM, Hammitt JK.
J Health Econ. 2022 07. 84:102627. PMID: 35569207
Trends in Author-Reported Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds in the United States from 1995 to 2018: Implications for Discount Rates.
Pandya A, Paulden M, Zhu J, Lavelle TA, Hammitt J.
Med Decis Making. 2022 10. 42(7):885-892. PMID: 35531945
Health benefits of decreases in on-road transportation emissions in the United States from 2008 to 2017.
Choma EF, Evans JS, Gómez-Ibáñez JA, Di Q, Schwartz JD, Hammitt JK, Spengler JD.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 12 21. 118(51). PMID: 34903648
The future costs of methane emissions.
Hammitt JK.
Nature. 2021 04. 592(7855):514-515. PMID: 33883725
Introduction to Special Issue on Risk Assessment, Economic Evaluation, and Decisions.
Hammitt JK, Robinson LA.
Risk Anal. 2021 04. 41(4):559-564. PMID: 33843076
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