Richard A. Dunn
Working Papers
Suicide
"The politics of hope and despair: the effect of presidential election outcomes on suicide rates." with Timothy Classen (forthcoming)
"The effect of job loss and unemployment duration on suicide risk in the United States: a new look using mass-layoffs and unemployment insurance claims." with Timothy Classen (under review)
"The appropriateness of using aggregate fertility rates to test the social integration theory of suicide." with Timothy Classen
"Suicide and child-birth: reconciling results for the United States and Europe." with Timothy Classen
Household production
"Labor supply and household meal production: new results from the Health and Retirement Survey."
"Household production of meals and health: a model with joint production."
Obesity
"Obesity and the availability of fast-food: an instrumental variables approach" (revise and resubmit)
"Development, inequality and obesity in Malaysia: how decreased income inequality can increase health inequality." with Andrew Tan, Rodolfo Nayga and Ismail Samad (under review)
"Does obesity lower the number of alcohol-related driving fatalities?" with Nathan Tefft
"The relationship between neighborhood characteristics and the affordability of fresh fruits and vegetables in a rural setting." with Justus Lotande-Manje, Rodolpho Nayga and Joseph Sharkey
Public Health in Malaysia
"Why women do not get screened for cervical cancer: evidence from Malaysia." with Andrew Tan
"Using anthropometric measures of obesity to formulate public health guidelines in developing countries: the case of diabetes in Malaysia" with Andrew Tan
Methodological
"Consistently bounding parameter values with one instrument and two endogenous explanatory variables." (under review)
"Calculating a store-level price index for fresh fruits and vegetables: comparing the thrifty food basket with an index that accounts for substitution." with Joseph Sharkey and Rodolfo Nayga
"Do disadvantaged groups pay more for healthy food?: comparing different approaches to substitution bias and missing price imputation" with Justus Lotande-Manje, Rodolpho Nayga and Joseph Sharkey
Last Updated 9/02/2009
