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Heather Royer

Heather Royer

American economist

Heather Royer (born c. 1974) is an American economist who is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara[1] and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[2] She has been an Associate Editor of The Journal of Human Resources,[3] the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and will become coeditor of the AEA Journal of Economic Policy in September 2021.[4]

Quick Facts Born, Alma mater ...

She was a member of the women's team that set a world record in a swimming relay from Palos Verdes to Santa Catalina Island in 1994,[5] and swam the English Channel in 1999.[6][7] She is a member of the Alaska Swimming Hall of Fame.[8]

Research

Royer's research focuses on causal inference in health economics.[9] She has studied how education affects health using variation induced by school-entry and compulsory schooling policies in the U.S. and in England.[10] In work with Mariana Carrera, she also found that commitment contracts, which offered people funds to go to the gym during a three-month experiment period, were effective at motivating people to develop a habit of gym-going that lasted for years after the experiment ended.[11][12][13]

Selected works

  • McCrary, Justin, and Heather Royer. "The effect of female education on fertility and infant health: evidence from school entry policies using exact date of birth." American economic review 101, no. 1 (2011): 158–95.
  • Clark, Damon, and Heather Royer. "The effect of education on adult mortality and health: Evidence from Britain." American Economic Review 103, no. 6 (2013): 2087–2120.
  • Royer, Heather. "Separated at girth: US twin estimates of the effects of birth weight." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, no. 1 (2009): 49–85.
  • Royer, Heather, Mark Stehr, and Justin Sydnor. "Incentives, commitments, and habit formation in exercise: evidence from a field experiment with workers at a fortune-500 company." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7, no. 3 (2015): 51–84.
  • Carrera, Mariana, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr, Justin Sydnor, and Dmitry Taubinsky. "The limits of simple implementation intentions: Evidence from a field experiment on making plans to exercise." Journal of health economics 62 (2018): 95–104.

References

  1. [1]
    "Heather Royer". The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  2. [2]
    "Heather Royer". NBER. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. [3]
    "The Journal of Human Resources Past Editors". uwpress.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  4. [4]
    "I'm delighted that Heather Royer will be joining AEJ-Policy as co-editor in September". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  5. [5]
    Klein, Gary (1994-08-25). "Having a Really, Relay Good Time : Swimming: Six members of the Pomona-Pitzer women's team set a world record in relay from Palos Verdes to Catalina Island". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  6. [6]
    "Heather Royer". longswims.com. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  7. [7]
    Sep 04, John Zant Wed (2019-09-04). "Making Waves for Marcie". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2021-04-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. [8]
    "Alaska Swimming LSC : Hall of Fame". www.teamunify.com. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  9. [9]
    "Heather Royer | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  10. [10]
    "Heather Royer – California Policy Lab". Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  11. [11]
    Pinsker, Joe (2015-06-30). "Ask an Economist: How Can You Trick Yourself Into Going to the Gym?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  12. [12]
    Barro, Josh (2015-01-10). "How to Make Yourself Go to the Gym". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  13. [13]
    "Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-04-27.


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