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Tim Halliday
UHERO Fellow Interview Series: Tim Halliday
Sumner La Croix interviewed UHERO Fellow Tim Halliday about his Social Science and Medicine paper in July 2014. For more on this paper, see Tim’s…
Income Inequality in Hawaii Since Statehood
By Jonathan Page and Timothy Halliday Thomas Piketty’s best-selling tome on the evolution of inequality in the US, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has inspired…
Globalization and Wage Convergence: Mexico and the United States
Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American…
Is inequality actually lower in Honolulu?
By Jonathan Page and Tim Halliday The outlook for inequality and poverty in Honolulu is not as rosy as it might seem at first glance.…
Are Recessions Bad for Your Health?
By Tim Halliday Our work indicates that a bad economy can kill you. Specifically, we show that over the ten years from 1984 to 1993…
Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID
We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals.…
Investigating the Effects of Furloughing Public School Teachers on Juvenile Crime in Hawaii
By Tim Halliday What happens to crime when 180,000 DOE students and all of their teachers are given the day off? When a fiscal crisis…
Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle
We consider the covariance structure of health. Agents report their health levels on the basis of a latent health stock that is determined by permanent…