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Erdal Tekin is a professor of economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His main areas of research include labor economics, health economics, and applied microeconomics. Within these fields, he has been working on projects related to economics of risky behavior and economics of child care and welfare program participation. Some of his work includes projects on the determinants of criminal behavior among adolescents, the relationship between gun ownership and crime, the link between physical attractiveness and criminality, the effects of mental health problems on labor market and school outcomes, the effect of body composition and obesity on wages, the relationship between child abuse and crime, and the effects of child care prices and subsidies on the employment and welfare outcomes of parents and the development of children. He also serves as the director of the Georgia Administrative Data Project at the Fiscal Research Center at Georgia State University. His research has been funded by federal and private institutions, including the National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Family Foundation, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. His research has been published in journals like the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Journal of Law and Economics. He is currently an editor of the Journal of Population Economics.
He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2001 and became a Research Fellow in February 2004.
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Erdal Tekin
Aydogan Ulker
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
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Michael Grossman
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Roy Wada
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition
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Chandler McClellan
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Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides
(revised version published as 'Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries', 2012, NBER Working Paper No. 18187) |
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D. Mark Anderson
Resul Cesur
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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior
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Chris M. Herbst
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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
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Joseph J. Sabia
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Combat Exposure and Migraine Headache: Evidence from Exogenous Deployment Assignment
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Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
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Chris M. Herbst
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 71 (1), 37-52) |
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Resul Cesur
Joseph J. Sabia
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The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
(forthcoming in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013) |
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Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin
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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
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Chris M. Herbst
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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 349 - 378) |
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Chris M. Herbst
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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (4), 618-638) |
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Timothy Brezina
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Volkan Topalli
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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
(published in: Criminology, 2009, 47 (4), 1091-1129) |
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Janet Currie
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Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
(revised version published as 'Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (2), 509-549) |
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Naci Mocan
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Ugly Criminals
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (1), 15 - 30) |
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Sara Markowitz
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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75(2), 300-331) |
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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
(published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 89 (1), 1-6) |
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Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (2), 233-250) |
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Naci Mocan
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Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49(2), 507-532) |
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Naci Mocan
Benjamin Scafidi
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Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2006, 5(1), Article 13) |
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Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 42 (2), 2007, 453-487) |
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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2004, 71 (2), 397-417) |
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Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin
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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85 (1), 38-50) |
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David M. Blau
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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (4), 719 - 741) |
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