Joseph V. Terza

Professor of Economics (Courtesy), University of Florida (jvt@ufl.edu or jvterza@iu.edu )

Dr. Terza’s primary area of research is the development and application of econometric methods for health policy analysis, health economics and health services research in nonlinear regression contexts involving endogeneity. His paper (with Basu and Rathouz) on two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) estimation has been widely cited, and the 2SRI method is commonly applied as a method for dealing with endogeneity in nonlinear regression settings. His main fields of interest in health policy include: the analysis of the labor market outcomes of individuals with spinal cord injury; the economic causes and consequences of substance abuse; the economics of nicotine and tobacco use; the behavioral economics of obesity; the effect of Medicare Advantage Plans on promoting guideline concordant prostate cancer care; and utilization and expenditures on low quality breast cancer care in the Medicare program. His research has been supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Commonwealth Fund, RWJF – Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization, American Cancer Society and others. He has served as associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Health Services Research.

Education

Saint Vincent College, B.A. Economics 1974

University of Pittsburgh, M.A. Economics 1979

University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. Economics 1981

Recent Publications

Terza, J.V. (2025): “Standard Errors for Regression-Based Causal Effect Estimates in Economics Using Numerical Derivatives,” Computational Economics, 65, 69-89.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-024-10565-w
Terza, J.V. (2024): “Introducing Ph.D. Students to Asymptotic Inference for Two-Stage M-Estimators: Easing Analytic and Coding Demands via the use of Numerical Derivatives’,” Southern Economic Journal, 91, 703-710.
https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12712
Terza, J.V. (2024): “Supplementary Appendix to ‘Introducing Ph.D. Students to Asymptotic Inference for Two-Stage M-Estimators: Easing Analytic and Coding Demands via the use of Numerical Derivatives’,” Southern Economic Journal, published online (11 pages).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2Fsoej.12712&file=soej12712-sup-0001-supinfo.pdf
Shea, D.G., Terza, J.V., Stuart, B.C., and Briesacher, B. (2024): ‘Correction to “Estimating the Effects of Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries,”’ Health Services Research, 59, published online and forthcoming in print.
https://doi-org.proxy.ulib.uits.iu.edu/10.1111/1475-6773.14274
Shea, D.G., Terza, J.V., Stuart, B.C., and Briesacher, B. (2024): “Supporting Information for ‘Correction to “Estimating the Effects of Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries,’” Health Services Research, 59 (58 pages).
https://doi-org.proxy.ulib.uits.iu.edu/10.1111/1475-6773.14274
Terza, J.V. (2023): “Simpler Standard Errors for Two-Stage Optimization Estimators Revisited,” Stata Journal, 23, 1057-1061.
Terza, J.V. (2023): “Supplementary Appendix to ‘Simpler Standard Errors for Two-Stage Optimization Estimators Revisited’,” Stata Journal, 23, published online (8 pages).
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