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Heather Brown

Heather Brown

Research Fellow

Lancaster University

h.w.brown@lancaster.ac.uk

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Forschungsinteressen

discrimination early childhood development early childhood health early childhood interventions early childhood outcomes economic psychology economics of aging economics of health ethnic minorities evaluation evaluation methods family family economics fetal and early childhood development

Heather Brown is a Professor of Public Health and Health Inequalities at Lancaster University, UK.

Heather received her PhD on the economic causes and consequences of obesity from the University of Sheffield. Heather has published widely in both economics and public health journals including Health Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Health Policy and Planning, Lancet Public Health, and Journal of Economic Psychology. She is the author of a text book on policy evaluation techniques: The Economics of Public Health. Her main research interests are on the intersection of labour and health, intergenerational mobility, migration, labour market outcomes, and inequalities, and the economics causes and consequences of health inequalities.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2021.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16875

Longer Working Hours and Maternal Mental Health: A Comparison of Single vs. Partnered Mothers

Julija Simpson, John Wildman, Clare Bambra, Heather Brown

published as 'Do longer job hours matter for maternal mental health? A longitudinal analysis of single versus partnered mothers' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (12), 2742-2756

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15795

Does Using Planning Policy to Restrict Fast Food Outlets Reduce Inequalities in Childhood Overweight and Obesity?

Huasheng Xiang, Viviana Albani, Louis Goffe, Nasima Akhter, Amelia Lake, Heather Brown

published as 'Planning policies to restrict fast food and inequalities in child weight in England: a quasi-experimental analysis' in: Obesity, 2024, 32 (12), 2345-2353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14968

Do Changes in Employment and Hours Worked Contribute to a Decreasing in the Mental Health of Single Mothers during a Period of Welfare Reform in the UK? A Longitudinal Analysis (2009-2019)

Julija Simpson, Clare Bambra, Heather Brown