Charles Courtemanche

Research Fellow

University of Kentucky

courtemanche@uky.edu

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Dr. Courtemanche is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

He is a health economist and applied microeconomist with particular research interests in the economics of obesity, public policies to expand insurance coverage, and big box retailers. His research has been published in a variety of journals including the Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic History, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Agriculture, and Food and Drug Administration.

Dr. Courtemanche has previously been a faculty member at the University of Louisville and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is also a Research Associate in the Health Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Affiliate with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)since July 2016. In November 2021 he became an IZA Research Fellow.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11412

Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 202 228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10951

The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Andrew P. Koller, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10739

Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility

Charles Courtemanche, Rusty Tchernis, Xilin Zhou

published as 'Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2019, 13 (4), 553 - 584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10649

Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 660 - 691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8009

Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7631

Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings

Charles Courtemanche, Samir Soneji, Rusty Tchernis

published in: HSR Health Services Research, 2015, 50 (5), 1413-1431