Erdal Tekin is the Charles W. Fotis, Sr. & Dorothea G. Fotis Family Distinguished Professor of Health Policy in School of Public Affairs at American University. He is an economist with primary research interests in the fields of health economics and demographic economics. Within these fields, the main theme of his research is the economic analysis of risky behaviors and the consequences of prenatal and postnatal conditions and risk factors on the short and long-term outcomes of individuals on a multitude of domains including health, human capital, labor market, and crime. Aside from this main theme, he has also written and published numerous articles studying the impact of child care subsidies and other major welfare programs on parental and child wellbeing. His research has been funded by numerous organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Family Foundation, and the Danish Council for Independent Research, among others. He published in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Journal of Law and Economics. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Aside from his academic appointment at American University, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge Massachusetts and a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12186
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (3), 1028-1055;
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11985
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102076
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11898
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 103387.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10923
published in: Economica, 2020, 87 (348), 1105 - 1132
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10115
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 91 - 108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9329
published as 'The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in 'in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 150, 74 - 93
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