J. Paul Leigh
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J. Paul Leigh's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Economics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, J. Paul Leigh is an American economist and professor of health economics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He is also a member of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research's core faculty there. He is known for his research in the fields of health economics, labor economics, and econometrics. For instance, he has studied the costs of occupational injuries.
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Published Works
- Occupational injury and illness in the United States. Estimates of costs, morbidity, and mortality. (1997) (529)
- Economic burden of occupational injury and illness in the United States. (2011) (524)
- Physician career satisfaction across specialties. (2002) (327)
- Schooling, Self-Selection, and Health (1989) (302)
- Brief Report: Forecasting the Economic Burden of Autism in 2015 and 2025 in the United States (2015) (288)
- An Estimate of the U.S. Government’s Undercount of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries (2004) (248)
- Physician career satisfaction within specialties (2009) (189)
- The effects of unemployment and the business cycle on absenteeism (1985) (188)
- Employee and job attributes as predictors of absenteeism in a national sample of workers: the importance of health and dangerous working conditions. (1991) (186)
- The effect of alcohol use on wages (1988) (174)
- Direct and indirect effects of education on health. (1983) (145)
- Costs of occupational injury and illness across industries. (2004) (123)
- Costs of occupational COPD and asthma. (2002) (123)
- Cigarette prices, smoking, and the poor: implications of recent trends. (2007) (117)
- Costs of hepatitis C. (2001) (115)
- Occupational disease and workers' compensation: coverage, costs, and consequences. (2004) (113)
- Sex Differences in Absenteeism (1983) (112)
- Costs of Occupational Injuries in Agriculture (2001) (106)
- Prevalence of back pain among fulltime United States workers. (1989) (105)
- Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (2000) (99)
- Randomized Controlled Study of a Retiree Health Promotion Program The Bank of America Study (1992) (92)
- An estimate of the U.S. government's undercount of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in agriculture. (2014) (90)
- Costs of Occupational Injury and Illness within the Health Services Sector (2005) (88)
- Compensating Wages, Value of a Statistical Life, and Inter-industry Differentials (1995) (86)
- Estimating the costs of job related arthritis. (2001) (80)
- Correlates of Absence from Work Due to Illness (1986) (78)
- Medical costs of fourteen occupational illnesses in the United States in 1999. (2003) (77)
- Annual work hours across physician specialties. (2011) (76)
- Assessing the importance of an independent variable in multiple regression: is stepwise unwise? (1988) (75)
- Accounting for tastes: correlates of risk and time preferences (1986) (71)
- Job-related diseases and occupations within a large workers' compensation data set. (1998) (69)
- Estimating the Effects of Wages on Obesity (2010) (68)
- The effects of union membership on absence from work due to illness (1981) (66)
- Tracking Career Satisfaction and Perceptions of Quality Among US Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2003) (66)
- Physician wages across specialties: informing the physician reimbursement debate. (2010) (65)
- The impact of pediatric intensive care unit volume on mortality: A hierarchical instrumental variable analysis* (2005) (61)
- Costs of occupational injuries and illnesses in California. (2001) (60)
- Schooling and frailty among seniors (1997) (56)
- Ranking occupations based upon the costs of job-related injuries and diseases. (1997) (56)
- Instrumental variables technique: cigarette price provided better estimate of effects of smoking on SF-12. (2004) (53)
- Occupational illnesses within two national data sets. (1998) (50)
- Economic Evaluation of Pediatric Telemedicine Consultations to Rural Emergency Departments (2015) (50)
- Workers' Compensation Benefits and Shifting Costs for Occupational Injury and Illness (2012) (50)
- Occupations, cigarette smoking, and lung cancer in the epidemiological follow-up to the NHANES I and the California Occupational Mortality Study. (1996) (48)
- Individual and job characteristics as predictors of industrial accidents. (1986) (47)
- Costs of Occupational Injury and Illness Across States (2004) (47)
- High Gasoline Prices and Mortality From Motor Vehicle Crashes and Air Pollution (2008) (47)
- Schooling and Seat Belt Use (1990) (46)
- No Evidence of Compensating Wages for Occupational Fatalities (1991) (46)
- Are low wages risk factors for hypertension? (2012) (44)
- Causes of Death in the Workplace (1995) (44)
- Costs differences across demographic groups and types of occupational injuries and illnesses. (2006) (42)
- Introduction To Occupational Epidemiology (1991) (41)
- Characteristics of persons and jobs with needlestick injuries in a national data set. (2008) (40)
- Spending by California’s Department of Developmental Services for Persons with Autism across Demographic and Expenditure Categories (2016) (38)
- Are unionized blue collar jobs more hazardous than nonunionized blue collar jobs? (1982) (36)
- Low Wages as Occupational Health Hazards. (2016) (35)
- Effects of smoking and being overweight on current earnings. (1989) (35)
- Liver cirrhosis deaths within occupations and industries in the California occupational mortality study. (1993) (35)
- Gender, firm size, industry, and estimates of the value-of-life. (1987) (34)
- Smoking, self-selection and absenteeism (1995) (33)
- Expanding research on the economics of occupational health. (2006) (30)
- Are meals at full-service and fast-food restaurants "normal" or "inferior"? (2011) (30)
- Modern Coordination Chemistry: The Legacy of Joseph Chatt (2007) (30)
- Unemployment and highway fatalities. (1991) (28)
- Arthritis and mortality in the epidemiological follow-up to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I. (1994) (28)
- Unionization and absenteeism (1984) (27)
- Analysis of Workers' Compensation Using Data on Individuals (1985) (27)
- Parents' schooling and the correlation between education and frailty (1998) (26)
- Firm size and occupational injury and illness incidence rates in manufacturing industries (2005) (25)
- Determinants of Employee Tardiness. (1988) (25)
- Compensating Wages for Job-Related Death: The Opposing Arguments (1989) (25)
- California’s nurse-to-patient ratio law and occupational injury (2015) (24)
- Costs of occupational circulatory disease. (2000) (24)
- Association of higher costs with symptoms and diagnosis of depression. (2002) (24)
- Determinants of Emplyee Tardiness (1988) (23)
- Effects of Minimum Wages on Absence from Work Due to Illness (2017) (23)
- Lifetime Earnings for Physicians Across Specialties (2012) (22)
- Effects of wages on smoking decisions of current and past smokers. (2015) (20)
- Alcohol abuse and job hazards (1996) (20)
- Estimated risk of occupational fatalities associated with hazardous waste site remediation. (1994) (19)
- Are compensating wages paid for time spent commuting (1986) (18)
- The Market for Safety Regulation and the Effect of Regulation on Fatalities: The Case of Motorcycle Helmet Laws (1991) (18)
- Non-random assignment, vehicle safety inspection laws and highway fatalities (1994) (18)
- Trends in Components of Medical Spending Within Workers Compensation: Results From 37 States Combined (2009) (17)
- Hypertension and Occupation Among Seniors (2009) (17)
- The social benefits of education: A review article (1998) (17)
- Could Raising the Minimum Wage Improve the Public's Health? (2016) (16)
- Medical costs in workers' compensation insurance: comment. (1997) (15)
- National Trends in Occupational Injuries before and after 1992 and Predictors of Workers' Compensation Costs (2011) (14)
- Randomized controlled study of a retiree health promotion program. The Bank of American Study. (1992) (14)
- Musculoskeletal disorder costs and medical claim filing in the US retail trade sector. (2011) (13)
- Multidisciplinary findings on socioeconomic status and health. (1993) (13)
- Risk Preference and the Interindustry Propensity to Strike (1983) (12)
- Hazardous Occupations, Illness, and Schooling. (1981) (12)
- An Empirical Analysis of Self-reported, Work-limiting Disability (1985) (12)
- Estimates of the probability of job-related death in 347 occupations. (1987) (11)
- Incidence of workers compensation indemnity claims across socio-demographic and job characteristics. (2011) (10)
- Absenteeism and HIV infection (1997) (10)
- International Comparisons of Physicians' Salaries (1992) (9)
- A bargaining model and empirical analysis of strike activity across industries (1984) (9)
- Specific illnesses, injuries, and job hazards associated with absenteeism. (1989) (8)
- Public and private workers' compensation insurance. (1997) (8)
- Differences in Workers’ Compensation Disability and Impairment Ratings Under Old and New California Law (2006) (8)
- Odds ratios of work related deaths in United States workers. (1988) (8)
- Remediation of Contaminated Sediments: A Comparative Analysis of Risks to Residents vs. Remedial Workers (2000) (8)
- Health policy and the distribution of lifetime income. (1992) (7)
- Some Problems with Value-of-Life Estimates Based on Labor Market Data (2000) (6)
- Participation in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program as Reported by Documented and Undocumented Farm Worker Adults in the Households (2015) (6)
- Changing SNAP-Participation Trends Among Farmworker Households in the U.S., 2003–2012 (2018) (6)
- Hazards for nearby residents and cleanup workers of waste sites. (1999) (6)
- The effectiveness of preemployment drug screening in the prediction of employment outcome. (1993) (6)
- Who chooses risky jobs? (1986) (6)
- Sociodemographic Differences in the Association Between Obesity and Stress: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) (2015) (6)
- Dangerous jobs and heavy alcohol use in two national probability samples. (1995) (5)
- The Effects of Unemployment on the Probability of Suffering a Disability (1987) (5)
- Hypertension, gender, job hazards and absenteeism in a 1973 national sample of U.S. workers (1990) (5)
- Gas taxes and motor vehicle fatalities. (1988) (5)
- Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wages for Accepting Employment in Strike-Prone or Hazardous Industries?. (1984) (5)
- A ranking of occupations based on the blood pressures of incumbents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I. (1991) (4)
- Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health. (2021) (4)
- A report card for occupational injuries and illnesses. (1998) (4)
- Unemployment insurance and the duration of unemployment: the case for reciprocal effects (1986) (4)
- Invited Commentary: Methods for estimating effects of minimum wages on health. (2020) (4)
- Medicaid Use by Documented and Undocumented Farm Workers (2015) (4)
- A National Estimate of the Cost of Occupationally Related Disease in 1992 a (1997) (4)
- Occupation and coronary disease: schooling as a confounder. (1988) (4)
- The social context of the chronic pain sufferer: By Dr Ranjan Roy. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 1992. 182 pp., $50 (h), $19.95 (s) (1995) (4)
- Sex-Specific Impact of Changes in Job Status on Suicidal Ideation. (2020) (4)
- An econometric technique to remove unobserved variables that bias the relationship between alcohol and blood pressure. (1993) (3)
- Racial Differences in Compensating Wages for Job Risks (1981) (3)
- Arguments for and Against the $15 Minimum Wage for Health Care Workers. (2019) (3)
- Education, Occupational Status, and Illness (1982) (3)
- Labor unions and health: A literature review of pathways and outcomes in the workplace (2021) (3)
- The High Cost of Worker's Compensation—Reply (1998) (2)
- Wage Differentials and Risk of Death: Comment (1986) (2)
- Erratum: Costs of occupational injuries and illnessess in California (Preventive Medicine (2001) 32:5 (393-406)) (2001) (2)
- MULTIDISCIPLINARY FINDINGS ON SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND HEALTH. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1993) (2)
- The decision to strike as a decision to allocate time (1990) (2)
- Divorce as a risky prospect (1985) (2)
- The economic returns to personal values (1981) (1)
- The Excess Mortality of Black Adults in the United States (1990) (1)
- Minimum Wages and Public Health: A Literature Review (2018) (1)
- 611: Economic Evaluation of Pediatric Telemedicine Consultations to Rural Emergency Departments (2013) (1)
- Occupational hazards and heart attacks. (1986) (1)
- Re: "Interpreting multiple logistic regression coefficients in prospective observational studies". (1985) (1)
- Distribution of lifetime income allowing for varying mortality rates among women, men, blacks, and whites. (1992) (1)
- Education and Development: Measuring the Social Benefits: Walter W. McMahon; Oxford University Press, New York, 1999, pp. xiv + 299, Price U.S. $55 cloth (2001) (1)
- 'Light up and make my day'. (1987) (1)
- FRANKS ET AL. RESPOND (2008) (1)
- Boron Hydrides and related compounds (2011) (1)
- Response to Douglas A. Wolf comment on "Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health". (2022) (0)
- Erratum to: California’s nurse-to-patient ratio law and occupational injury (2015) (0)
- Authors' response to letter from David Seidenwurm. (2013) (0)
- Nomenclature Notes: Use of Abbreviations, Enclosing Marks, and Line-Breaks (2013) (0)
- Re: "Sex, race, age, and hypertension as determinants of employee absenteeism". (1987) (0)
- IPAC : Then and now : Reflections on 40 Years of Involvement (2008) (0)
- Brief Report: Forecasting the Economic Burden of Autism in 2015 and 2025 in the United States (2015) (0)
- The Special Case of Boron Hydrides (2013) (0)
- alcohols asymmetric synthesis of chiral sekondären (1995) (0)
- Punctuality and tardiness in supplying labor (1986) (0)
- Complication risks for HIV-positive individuals undergoing invasive dental procedures are no more common than those for HIV-negative individuals (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life (1997) (0)
- Using a "risk-free" wage in calculating the present value of lost earnings for asbestos workers. (1986) (0)
- Estimating Effects of Wages on Smoking Prevalence Using Labor Unions as Instrumental Variables (2023) (0)
- Earnings, risk, and the wage structure of industry (1979) (0)
- Informing the Physician Reimbursement Debate (2017) (0)
- Government policies toward tobacco growing promote health. (1987) (0)
- Response to Methods for Estimating the Effect of Minimum Wages on Health Should Target Policy-Relevant Parameters. (2020) (0)
- Investment in education in the absence of capital markets (1981) (0)
- THE AUTHOR REPLIES (2020) (0)
- An economic model of adverse events and costs for oral anticoagulants used for atrial (2007) (0)
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