Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

Jones, Kelly and Britni Wilcher. 2024. Reducing maternal labor market detachment: A role for paid family leave. Labour Economics, 87: 102478.

Gunter, Bernhard and Britni Wilcher. 2020. Three Decades of Globalisation: Which Countries Won, Which Lost?. World Economy, 43: 1076– 1102.

Van Giessen, Anoukh, Jamie Peters, Britni Wilcher, Chris Hyde, Carl Moons, Adrine de Wit, and Erik Koffiberg. 2017. Systematic Review of Health Economic Impact Evaluations of Risk Prediction Models: Stop Developing, Start Evaluating. Value in Health, 20(4):718-726. (Editor’s Choice: April Issue)

Ciani, Oriana, Britni Wilcher, Anoukh van Giessen, and Rod S. Taylor. 2017. Linking the Regulatory and Reimbursement Processes for Medical Devices: The Need for Integrated Assessments. Health Economics, 26 Suppl 1:13-29.

Oriana Ciani, Britni Wilcher, Carl Rudolf Blankart, Maximilian Hatz, Valentina Prevolnik Rupel, Renata Slabe Erker, Yauheniya Varabyova and Rod S. Taylor. 2015. Health technology assessment of medical devices: a survey of non-European union agencies. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 31(3): 154-65. (2015 Egon Jonsson Award Winner)

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications 

Wilcher, Britni. 2021. The Price of Life: Book review summarizes “Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life”. Health Affairs, 40 (4): 679-679.

“Emergency Temporary Standard of November 5, 2021, COVID-19 Vaccine and Testing.” Code of Federal Regulations, 29 CFR 1910.501 (2021). https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2021-11-05/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-XVII/part-1910/subpart-U/section-1910.501[Economic Feasibility Assessment]

“Emergency Temporary Standard of June 21, 2021, Occupational Exposure to COVID-19.” Code of Federal Regulations, 29 CFR 1910.502 (2021). https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2021-06-21/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-XVII/part-1910/subpart-U/section-1910.502 [Economic Feasibility Assessment]

Working Papers

Local Labor Market Conditions, Mothers Health, and Child Care: Evidence from the Great Recession [Under Review]

Evidence suggests that economic downturns improve health for prime age working males, but it is unclear whether these benefits accrue to mothers who face the dual burden of paid and unpaid work. I combine nationally representative health outcome data with gender disaggregated measures of unemployment and labor demand over the period of 2005 - 2018 to examine how local labor market conditions affect the health of mothers, focusing on those with low levels of education who are potentially eligible for state child care subsidies. I find that unemployment reduces stress-related conditions, while employment growth increases stress-related conditions. Male employment growth drives the negative effect. Child care subsidies offset some of the negative impacts of aggregate employment growth. Together, these results suggest less-educated women’s health varies countercyclically alongside prime age working males, and may be worsened by the dual time burden of child care.

Presented at: 2021 Western Economic Association Annual Meeting; 10th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

Works in Progress

Clinical Trial Sex Composition and Drug Quality 

Presented at: 2020 AEA Annual Meeting; 2021 Cowles Labor and Public Conference, Yale University; Department of Economics, University of San Francisco; Global Center for Gender Equality, Stanford School of Medicine

Improving Behavioral Healthcare Access: A 30-Year Health and Economic Impact Microsimulation

Funding: Spectrum Pilot (PI: Britni Wilcher; Co-PIs: Alyce Adams, Donna Zulman; Co-Investigators: Liberty Greene, Josephine Jacobs, Bryan Tysinger)

Digital Divide and Women’s Mental Health Care: Evidence from the VA Video-Enabled Tablet Distribution

(with Kritee Gujral, Josephine Jacobs, James Van Campen, Liberty Greene, Donna Zulman)

Presented at: 2023 VA Women's Health Services Research Conference (poster), Southern Economic Association 93rd Annual Meeting