Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
| Address:
Department of Economics 2424 Maile Way Saunders Hall 533 Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956 - 8615 E-Mail: halliday at hawaii dot edu |
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Fields: Health and Labor Economics, Applied Micro-econometrics
Other Appointments: IZA
Description of Research
My research lies at the nexus of health and
labor economics
with a strong emphasis on econometric methodology. Below is a
list of some of the topics that I research:
- Aging
- Dynamic panel data models
- Migration
- Peer effects
- Health production
- Health disparities
Publications
- Mismeasured
Household Size and
Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale, forthcoming Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics
- Weight Gain
in Adolescents and their Peers [w/ S. Kwak], Economics
and Human Biology, 7(2): 181-190, 2009.
- This article is a response to the research discussed here.
- Here is a BBC article that mentions our paper.
- Here
is a Hawai'i Public Radio piece that discusses our research.
- Selective Migration and Health in the United States, 1984 - 1993 [w/ M. Kimmitt], Population Studies, 62(3): 321-334, 2008.
- Heterogeneity,
State Dependence and Health,
Econometrics
Journal, 11(3):
499-516, 2008.
- Testing for
State Dependence with Time Variant Transition Probabilities, Econometric Reviews,
26(6): 685-703, 2007.
- Socioeconomic
Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening in Hawaii [w/ D. Taira, J.
Davis and H. Chan], Preventing Chronic
Disease, 4(4): 1-9, 2007.
- Business
Cycles, Migration and Health, Social Science and Medicine, 64(7): 1420-1424, 2007.
- Migration,
Risk and Liquidity
Constraints in El Salvador, Economic Development
and Cultural Change, 54(4): 893-925, 2006.
Working Papers
- The
Relationship between Household Size and the Demand for Medical Care
[w/ M. Park] (November 2009)
- Health
Investment over the Life-Cycle[w/ H. He and H. Zhang] (October
2009)
- Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle (October 2009)
- This is an updated version on an earlier
draft. It corrects a few typos and an error that was in Section
3.2.
- Health
Status and the Allocation of Time [w/ M. Podor] (August 2009)
- Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador (August 2008), revise and resubmit Canadian Journal of Economics
- What is a Peer?
The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Peer Effects [w/S.
Kwak](June
2008)
- Income Volatility and Health (December 2007)
Some
Works in
Progress
Courses
Graduate Metrics Lecture Notes
Stats Slides
Stats Problem Sets
- Undocumented Migration with Endogenous Coyote Prices [w/ A. de Paula]
- Career Moves and Earnings Outcomes [w/ A. Frederiksen and A. Koch]
- Understanding the Wage Diffentials of Mexicans in the United States and Mexico [w/ R. Robertson]
- Cost Sharing and Pharmaceutical Demand [w/ D. Juarez and J.
Davis]
- The Economics of Family and Gender in Colonial Hawaii [w/ S. La Croix]
Courses
Graduate Metrics Lecture Notes
- Probability
- Distributions
- Some Special Distributions
- Asymptotic Theory
- Additional Notes on
Asymptotics
- Estimation and Inference
- OLS
- IV
- Treatment Effects
- Non-Parametrics
- Panel Data
Stats Slides
Stats Problem Sets