Fields: Health, Labor and Development Economics

Other Appointments: IZA

Publications

• Health Status and the Allocation of Time [w/ M. Podor], forthcoming Health Economics
• What is a Peer? The Role of Network Defintions in Estimation of Peer Effects [w/ S. Kwak], Applied Economics, 44(3): 289-302, 2012.
  
• Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle, BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 11(3): Article 5, 2011.
  
• This is a substantially revised version of an earlier IZA WP.
• Home-Based Preventative Care in High Risk Patients: A Pilot Study [w/ S. Berman(lead author), C. Wada, D. Minatodani, P. Jordan, J. Lindo], Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(4): 283-287, 2011.
  
• Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 72(2): 246-262, 2010.
  
• 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.
  
• Business Cycles, Migration and Health, Social Science and Medicine, 64(7): 1420-1424, 2007.
• Socio-economic Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening in Hawaii [w/ D. Taira, J. Davis and H. Chan], Preventing Chronic Disease, 4(4): 1-9, 2007.
• Migration, Risk and Liquidity Constraints in El Salvador, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54(4): 893-925, 2006.
  

Working Papers

• Earnings Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health, (December 2011)
• Here is an earlier version of the paper titled "Income Volatility and Health"
  
• Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment: Evidence from El Salvador, (November 2011), revise and resubmitted to the European Economic Review
  
• This is a substantially revised version of an earlier paper titled Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador
• Within and Cross Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth [w/ A. Frederiksen and A. Koch], (September 2011)
• Health Investment over the Life-Cycle [w/ H. He and H. Zhang], (May 2011), revise and resubmit at the Canadian Journal of Economics
  

Some Works in Progress

• Undocumented Migration with Endogenous Coyote Prices [w/ A. de Paula]
• Understanding the Wage Differentials between the United States and Mexico [w/ R. Robertson]
• Sex Ratios and the Marriage Contract in Early Twentieth Century Hawaii [w/ S. La Croix]