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. 9328
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 20 - 35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8958
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2018, 13(4), 513-544.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8402
published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (2), 361 - 383
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7538
published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7465
revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 12, 4-19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6705
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (3), 621-653
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6577
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 294-317
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