Economist, ACA critic speaking April 2

Casey Mulligan, who the Wall Street Journal has called “the economist who exposed Obamacare,” will speak at Cornell College on Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, will give a talk titled “Side Effects: The Economic Consequences of the Health Reform,” based on his 2014 book of the same name. The lecture, set for 7:30 p.m. in the Hall-Perrine Room in the Thomas Commons, will share analysis on the economic side effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act,  including a market analysis of the law that arrives at conclusions as to effects on work hours, productivity, and national income.

Mulligan has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and has served as a visiting professor teaching public economics at Harvard University, Clemson University, and the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, and the Population Research Center. He has received awards and fellowships from the Manhattan Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation. His research covers capital and labor taxation, the gender wage gap, health economics, Social Security, voting and the economics of aging.

His talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Berry Center for Economics, Business and Public Policy. Mulligan will take questions immediately following the lecture.

In addition to speaking, Mulligan will meet with students and speak in an economics and business class.