Dr Julia Witt

Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Tel. +61 3 8344 2198
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email. jwitt@unimelb.edu.au

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Julia Witt joined the Institute in September 2005 as a Research Fellow in the area of Health Economics. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Guelph, Canada in January 2005. Her current research includes the recruitment and retention of doctors and nurses, occupational choices of nursing graduates, discrete choice experiments, measuring the quality of care, and the effects of domestic violence.

Work in Progress

• Witt, J., Scott, A. and Shields, M. “Why do Public Sector Employees Leave the Public Sector? A Competing Risk Analysis of Nurses in Australia”
• Witt, J., Jensen, P. and Webster, B. “Comparing Quality of Care: Is It Meaningful?”
• Grogan, L. and Witt, J. “Domestic Violence and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation”
• Hoy, M., Ni, X., Polborn, M. and Witt, J. “Consumer Welfare Effects of Genetic Testing for Huntington’s Disease”

Forthcoming/Under Review

• Hoy, M. and Witt, J. “Welfare Effects of Banning Genetic Information in Insurance Markets: The Case of the BRCA1/2 Genes” (2006) forthcoming: Journal of Risk and Insurance
• Witt, J., Brauer, P., Dietrich, L, and Davidson, B. “Human Resources and Cost Estimates of Adding a Registered Dietitian to Ontario Family Health Networks” (2006) forthcoming: Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research
• Witt, J. “ The Effect of Information in the Utilization of Preventive Health Care Strategies: An Application to Breast Cancer.” (2005) forthcoming: Health Economics
• Witt, J., Scott, A. and Osborne, R. “Designing Choice Experiments with Many Attributes. An Application to Setting Priorities for Orthopaedic Waiting Lists.” (2006) revise and resubmit: Health Economics

Recent Policy Pieces and Reports

• Witt, J. and Ferguson, B. “The Case of Reference Pricing: Paying for Drugs under a Pharmacare Plan” (2006) Available at: http://www.aims.ca.
• Witt, J. and Ferguson, B. “The Good News: Pharmaceuticals and the Cost of Medical Care” (2006) Available at: http://www.aims.ca.
• “Health Systems Update: 2004 – 2005” (2005): The Change Foundation (TCF) and the Canadian College of Health Service Executives (CCHSE). Available from TCF and CCHSE.
• Witt, J. “A Finger on the Pulse: Comparative Models for Reporting the Quality of Hospital Care” (2005) Available at: http://www.aims.ca.