Peer Reviewed Publications

2013

Exploring the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and problem drinking as captured by Google searches in the US (2013). With Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields. Forthcoming, Social Science and Medicine Read this paper here

Weight perceptions, weight control and income: An analysis using British Data (2013), with David Johnston. Forthcoming, Economics and Human Biology Read this paper here

The Impact of an Unplanned Pregnancy on Sibling Health Outcomes (2013). With Paul Frijters. Forthcoming in Health Economics. Read this paper here

2012

Discrimination makes me Sick! An Examination of the Discrimination-Health Relationship (2012). With David Johnston. Journal of Health Economics. 31 (1):99-111 Read this paper here

Income Inequality and Mental Health – Empirical Evidence from Australia (2012). With Lucy Bechtel and Prasada Rao. in Health Economics. Volume 21, Issue S1, June 2012, Pages: 4–17. Read this paper here

Does aid for HIV respond to media pressure (2012). With Fabrizio Carmignani and KK Tang. in Health Economics Volume 21, Issue S1, June 2012, Pages: 18–32. Read this paper here

Socioeconomic status and health outcomes in a developing country (2012). With Eliana Jimenez Soto, Richard Brown and Ignacio Correa-Valez. Health Economics. 21(2): 178-186. Read this paper here

2011
Has HIV/AIDs displaced other health funding priorities? Evidence from a new dataset of development aid for health (2011). With Fabrizio Carmignani and KK Tang. Social Science and Medicine. 73(3): 351-355. Read this paper here

Should we put a thin subsidy on the policy table in the fight against obesity -? (2011). With John Quiggin. Forum for Health Economics and Policy 14(2). Read this paper here

Considering endogeneity and heterogeneity – a hierarchical random parameters approach to measuring efficiency (2011). Applied Economics. 41; 26; pages 3411-3423. Read this paper here