Patricia M. Anderson
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Patricia M. Anderson
Department of Economics Phone: (603) 646-2532
Dartmouth College FAX: (603) 646-2122
Hanover, NH 03755-3514 e-mail:
Education
Princeton University, Ph.D., Economics, 1991.
Princeton University, M.A., Economics, 1989.
College of William and Mary, B.A., Economics and Mathematics, 1985.
Academic Positions Held
Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, 2004 - present.
Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, 1997 - 2004.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, 1991 - 1997.
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009 - present
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1994 - 2009.
Professional Positions Held
Co-editor, Journal of Human Resources, 2002 - present.
Editorial Board, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2001 – present.
Member, Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, 2002 – 2005.
Member, Committee on National Statistics Panel on Measuring Business Dynamics, 2004 – 2007.
Published Articles
“Parental Employment, Family Routines, and Childhood Obesity.” Economics and Human Biology, forthcoming.
“Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children’s BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous (joint with Kristin Butcher, Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Schanzenbach). Journal of Health Economics, 30, (September 2011): 977 - 986.
“Reading, Writing and Refreshments: Are School Finances Contributing to Children’s Obesity?” (joint with Kristin Butcher), Journal of Human Resources (Summer 2006): 467 – 494.
“Causes of the Increase in Childhood Overweight and Obesity,” (joint with Kristin Butcher), Future of Children, 16, (Spring 2006): 19 - 46.
“Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax,” (joint with Bruce Meyer), National Tax Journal, 61, (March 2006): 77 - 95.
"Maternal Employment and Overweight Children,” (joint with Phillip Levine and Kristin Butcher), Journal of Health Economics, 22, (May 2003): 477 - 504.
“Economic Perspectives on Childhood Obesity,” (joint with Phillip Levine and Kristin Butcher), Economic Perspectives, 3Q, (2003): 30 – 48.
“The Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Wages, Employment, Claims and Denials,” (joint with Bruce Meyer), Journal of Public Economics, 78, (October 2000): 81 - 106.
"Empirical Matching Functions: Estimation and Interpretation Using State-Level Data," (joint with Simon Burgess), Review of Economics and Statistics, 82, (February 2000): 93 - 102.
"Trends in Male Labor Force Participation and Retirement: Some Evidence on the Role of Pensions and Social Security in the 1970's and 1980's," (joint with Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier), Journal of Labor Economics, 17, (October 1999): 757 - 783.
"Unemployment Insurance Takeup Rates and the After-Tax Value of Benefits,” (joint with Bruce Meyer), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, (August 1997): 913 - 937.
"The Effects of Firm Specific Taxes and Government Mandates with an Application to the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Program," (joint with Bruce Meyer), Journal of Public Economics, 65 (August 1997): 119 - 145.
"The Extent and Consequences of Job Turnover," (joint with Bruce Meyer), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Microeconomics (1994): 177 - 236.
"Linear Adjustment Costs and Seasonal Labor Demand: Evidence from Retail Trade Firms," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108, (November 1993): 1015 - 1042.
"The Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax and Interindustry and Interfirm Subsidies," (joint with Bruce Meyer), Tax Policy and the Economy, 7, (1993): 111 - 144.
"Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Layoff Incentives and Cross-Subsidies," (joint with Bruce Meyer), Journal of Labor Economics, 11, (January 1993, part 2): S70 - S95.
"Time-Varying Effects of Recall Expectation, a Reemployment Bonus, and Job Counseling on Unemployment Durations," Journal of Labor Economics, 10, (January 1992): 99 - 115.
Book Chapters
“Maternal Employment” in Handbook of Social Science of Obesity, John Cawley, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“School Policies and Children’s Obesity” (joint with Kristin Butcher and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach). In Current Issues in Health Economics, Dan Slotje and Rusty Tchernis, eds. UK: Emerald Press, 2010.
“Child Care.” in Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited, Philip Levine and David Zimmerman eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
“Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?” (joint with Kristin Butcher and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach). in What Have We Learned About the Problems of and Prospects for Disadvantaged Youth?, Jonathan Gruber ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
“Monitoring and Assisting Active Job Search,” in OECD Proceedings: Labour Market Policies and the Public Employment Service. Paris: OECD, 2001.
“Child Care and Mother’s Employment Decisions.” (joint with Phil Levine) in Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform, David Card and Rebecca Blank eds., New York: Russell Sage, 2000.
"Continuing Benefit Eligibility: Current Labor Market Attachment," in Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Analysis of Policy Issues, Chris O'Leary and Steve Wandner eds., Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute, 1997.
Comments, Book Reviews, Miscellaneous
Review of Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy by Stephen A. Wandner, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 64, (July 2011): 821-822.
Review of Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children by Greg J. Duncan, Aletha C. Huston, and Thomas S. Weisner, Journal of Economic Literature, 46, (September 2008): 737-738.
“Unemployment Insurance” Article for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition. 2008.
Understanding Business Dynamics: An Integrated Data System for America’s Future, John Haltiwanger, Lisa M. Lynch and Christopher Mackie eds. Washington, DC: National Academies Press 2007. (This book is the final output of the Panel on Measuring Business Formation, Dynamics and Performance).
Review of Unemployment Compensation Throughout the World: A Comparative Analysis by Vroman, Wayne and Vera Brusentsev, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60, (January 2007): 298-299.
Review of Imports, Exports, and Jobs by Kletzer, Lori G., Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 59-2 (Spring 2004): 423 - 424.
Review of Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing by Vroman, Wayne, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 53, (January 2000): 341.
Review of Job Creation and Destruction by Davis, Steven J., John C. Haltiwanger and Scott Shuh, Journal of International Economics, (May 1997): 505 - 507.
Working Papers and Drafts
“Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of No Child Left Behind on Children’s Obesity.” (joint with Kristin Butcher and Diane Schanzenbach). NBER Working Paper #16873, March 2011. Under review.
“Where the Boys No Longer Are: Recent Trends in U.S. College Enrollment Patterns.” Mimeograph July 2002. Accepted at Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, under revision for upgrade to Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy.
"The Effect of Employer-Provided Health Insurance on Job Mobility: Job-Lock or Job-Push?” Mimeograph, October 1998.
"The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Benefits on Layoffs Using Firm and Individual Data," (joint with Bruce Meyer), NBER Working Paper #4960, December 1994. Revised January 1996.
"The New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Demonstration Project Follow-Up Report," (joint with Walter Corson and Paul Decker) Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper 91-1, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Unemployment Insurance Service, 1991.
Work in Progress
State-Level Accountability Systems and Student Obesity: The Case of California. ((joint with Kristin Butcher and Diane Schanzenbach).
Recent Grants and Awards
UKCPR Research Program on Childhood Hunger. “New Evidence on Why Children’s Food
Security Varies across Households with Similar Incomes” (co-investigator with Kristin Butcher, Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach). 2012-2014.
Russell Sage Foundation. “Understanding Food Insecurity During the Great Recession” (co-investigator with Kristin Butcher, Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach). 2012-2013.
USDA Research Innovation and Development Grant in Economics (RIDGE). “The Impact of School and School Food on Children’s Obesity” (consultant to Kristin F. Butcher). 2008-2009.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research. “The Effect of School Accountability Policies on Children’s Health.” (consultant to Diane Schanzenbach). 2006 – 2008.
Dartmouth College Rockefeller Public Policy Research Grant. “The Effect of School Accountability Policies on Children’s Health.” AY06-07.
Employment Policy Institute, Small Grant, “Using the UI Payroll Tax to Pay for Family Leave Benefits: What are the Distributional Consequences” (Co-investigator with Bruce Meyer). Awarded October 2000.
Dartmouth College Rockefeller Public Policy Research Grant. “Where the Boys Aren’t: Recent Trends in U.S. College Enrollment Patterns and Completion Rates” AY99-00
Dartmouth College Rockefeller Grant for Research in Economics. "Maternal Employment, Child Care and Childhood Obesity,” AY01-02
Albert Rees Prize for the Outstanding Princeton Ph.D. Dissertation in Labor Economics, 1997. Awarded every two years (starting in 1997) by the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University for the best thesis in the past six years.
Visiting Positions
University of York, Department of Economics, Distinguished Visiting Professor, November 2005.
University of Bristol, Department of Economics, Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, November 1994.
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, Centre for Economic Research, Visiting Fellow, February - March 1995.
Recent/Scheduled Presentations
Georgia State University Seminar: “Parental Employment, Family Routines and Childhood Obesity.” October 2010.
Brigham Young University working group conference on Obesity and the Family: “Parental Employment, Family Routines and Childhood Obesity.” Provo, UT, May 2010.
Louisiana State University Economics Department Seminar: “The Effect of School Accountability Policies on Children’s Health.” January 2010.
American Economic Association Annual Meetings (Atlanta) Session on Empirical Health: “The Effect of School Accountability Policies on Children’s Health.” January 2010.
Boston College Economics Department Seminar: “The Effect of School Accountability Policies on Children’s Health.” October 2009.
Brigham Young University Family Studies Center Conference on Obesity and the Family: Pre-conference May 2009
University of California-Davis Seminar: “The Effect of School Accountability Policies on Children’s Health.” May 2009.
American Economic Association Annual Meetings (San Francisco) Session on Obesity through the Life-Cycle: “Is Being in School Better? Using School Starting Age to Identify the Impact of Schools on Children’s Obesity.” January 2009.
Toulouse School of Economics (France) Conference on Economics of Obesity: “School Policies and Children’s Health.” December 2008.
University of Indiana Lecture Series on Childhood Obesity : “Is Being in School Better? Using School Starting Age to Identify the Impact of Schools on Children’s Obesity.” November 2008.
Professional Service
Referee for: American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Industrial Relations, Labour, Demography, Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Regional Science Economic Development and Cultural Change, Contemporary Economic Policy, Southern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Journal, Empirical Economics, Public Finance and Management, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy, Education Next, Social Science and Medicine, Economics and Human Biology, Review of Economics and the Household
Reviewer for: National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, USDA Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, Southwestern Publishing, Upjohn Institute Press
Dartmouth Service
Dartmouth College Athletic Director Search Committee, Summer 2010.
Faculty Advisor for the football team, AY2009 - .
Council on Honorary Degrees, member AY2009-2010.
Economics Department Chair, AY2006-2007, AY2007-2008.
Dartmouth College Benefits Council, member AY2004-2005, Chair AY2005-2006, AY2006-2007.
Dartmouth College Employer of Choice Working Group, Chair AY2006-2007.
Dartmouth College Health Insurance Working Group, Chair AY2005-2006, AY2006-2007.
Dartmouth College Committee on Standards, AY2004-2005, AY2005-2006.
Economics Department Recruiting Committee, AY2004-2005
Economics Department Vice Chair, AY2002-2003, AY2003-2004
Dartmouth College Subcommittee on Fiscal Integrity, NCAA Recertification, W03-S04
Economics Department Curriculum Committee, W00-S00, AY2002-2003, AY2003-2004, Chair AY2005-2006, AY2009-2010
Dartmouth College Faculty Committee on Athletics, AY2001-2002, AY2002-2003
Faculty Representative to the Dartmouth College Athletic Council, AY2001-2002, AY2002-2003
Economics Department Haney & Rockefeller Committee W99, W00, W01
Dartmouth College ad hoc Committee on Distance Learning, November 2000 – April 2001
Economics Department Honors Coordinator, S01
Accreditation Committee on Computing and the Information Environment at Dartmouth College, AY1999-2000.
Dartmouth College Kiewit Social Sciences Computing Manager Search Committee, X98-S99.
Dartmouth College Committee on Instruction, AY97-98, W99-S99.