Timothy Halliday
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
CV
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.
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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
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
ECON 628
ECON 674
ECON 301
ECON 321
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
Slides 1
Slides 2
Slides 3
Slides 4
Slides 5
Slides 6
Slides 7
Stats Problem Sets
PS 1
PS 2
PS2 Solution
PS 3
PS3 Solution
PS 4
PS4 Solution
PS 5
PS5 Solution
PS 6
PS6 Solution