Publications
Published and forthcoming papers
The papers posted here are slightly older versions of the final publications.
Understanding Differences in Health behaviors by Education
Forthcoming. Journal of Health Economics. (joint with David Cutler)
Modern medicine and the 20th century declines in mortality: New evidence on the impact of sulfa drugs
Forthcoming. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. (joint with Seema Jayachandran and Kim V. Smith)
The needs of the Army: using compulsory relocation in the military to estimate the effect of environmental pollutants on children's health
Forthcoming. Journal of Human Resources. Online Appendix
Life Expectancy and human capital investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 124, No. 1: 349–397, February 2009. (joint with Seema Jayachandran). Online Appendix
Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation
Demography, Volume 45, Number 3, August 2008, pp. 741-761. (joint with Sherry Glied)
Competing Risks and the War on Cancer
Econometrica, Vol. 74, Issue 6, November 2006. (joint with Bo Honoré)
Financial Development and Pathways of Growth: State Branching and Deposit Insurance Laws in the United States from 1900 to 1940
Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 50, May 2007. (joint with Rajeev Dehejia)
The Determinants of Mortality
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, Number 3, Summer 2006. (joint with David Cutler and Angus Deaton)
Estimation of Models with Grouped and Ungrouped Data by Means of 2SLS
Journal of Econometrics, (2006) Vol. 133, No. 3, pp. 10-29. (joint with Phoebus J. Dhrymes)
The Effect Of Education On Medical Technology Adoption: Are The More Educated More Likely To Use New Drugs?
Special issue of the Annales d’Economie et Statistique in memory of Zvi Griliches, No 79/80, 2005. (joint with Frank Lichtenberg)
Access to Care, Provider Choice and the Infant Health Gradient
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 95, No. 2, May 2005. (joint with Anna Aizer and Mark Stabile)
The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the U.S.
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 72(1), January 2005. [Data below] Corrigendum
Booms, Busts and Babies' Health
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 119(3), August 2004. (joint with Rajeev Dehejia)
Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective: An Analysis from 1915 to 1939
Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. XLV(2), October 2002. [Data below]
Chapters in books
Education and Health: Evaluating theories and evidence
Published in Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economics Policy as Health Policy, Robert F. Schoeni, James S. House, George Kaplan and Harold Pollack, editors, New York: Russell Sage Foundation 2008. (joint with David Cutler)
Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Health Economics. (joint with David Cutler and Tom Vogl)
The Education Gradient in Old Age Disability
Forthcoming in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise.