Meghan Skira

PhD, Economics, Boston College, 2012

MA, Economics, Boston College, 2009

BS, Economics, University of Rhode Island, 2007

Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 2016

J. Hatten Howard Teaching Award, UGA Honors Program, 2015

Swift Award for Outstanding Teaching in Undergraduate Economics, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Department of Economics, 2015

Lilly Teaching Fellow, UGA Center for Teaching and Learning,2014

• Labor Economics
• Economics of Aging
• Health Economics

• Courtney H. Van Houtven, Norma B. Coe, Meghan M. Skira. 2013.The Effect of Informal Care on Work and Wages. Journal Of Health Economics, 32(1): 240-252. 
• Meghan M. Skira. 2015. Dynamic Wage and Employment Effects of Elder Parent Care. International Economic Review, 56(1): 63-93. 
• Norma B. Coe, Meghan M. Skira, Courtney H. Van Houtven. 2015. Long-Term Care Insurance: Does Experience Matter?. Journal Of Health Economics, 40: 122-132. 
• Rachel Werner, Meghan M. Skira, R. Tamara Konetzka. 2016. An Evaluation of Performance Thresholds in Nursing Home Pay-for-Performance. Health Services Research, 51(6): 2282-2304. 
• R. Tamara Konetzka, Meghan M. Skira, Rachel Werner. 2018. Incentive Design and Quality Improvements: Evidence from State Medicaid Nursing Home Pay-for-Performance Programs. American Journal Of Health Economics, 4(1):105-130. 
• Aline Butikofer, Meghan M. Skira. 2018. Missing Work is a Pain: The Effect of Cox-2 Inhibitors on Sickness Absence and Disability Pension Receipt. The Journal Of Human Resources, 53(1): 71-122. 
• Andrew Beauchamp, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Shannon Seitz, Meghan M. Skira. 2018. Single Moms and Deadbeat Dads: The Role of Earnings, Marriage Market Conditions, and Preference Heterogeneity. International Economic Review, 59(1): 191-232.
• Norma B. Coe, Meghan M. Skira, and Eric B. Larson. 2018. A Comprehensive Measure of the Costs of Caring for a Parent: Differences According to Functional Status. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 66(10): 2003-2008.