Daniel I. Rees

Research Fellow

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Daniel.Rees@uc3m.es

Research Interests

Daniel I. Rees is a professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a coeditor of the American Journal of Health Economics. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1986, his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988, and his Ph.D. from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1992. He was a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver from 1993-2021 and Editor-in-Chief of the Economics of Education Review from 2014-2019.

Professor Rees is interested in a wide range of topics including the determinants of risky adolescent behavior and the effects of prenatal stress on child health. He is currently studying the mortality transition at the turn of the 20th century, the relationship between hospital desegregation and the Black-White infant mortality gap, and the long-term effects of smoking on health.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2011.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16667

Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes: Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Krzysztof Karbownik, Daniel I. Rees, Camila Steffens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15625

Predicting COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

Elizaveta Pronkina, Daniel I. Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15295

Safeguarding Consumers through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott, Daniel I. Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14975

Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott, Daniel I. Rees

published in: American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 188-192.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14890

The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment

D. Mark Anderson, Ron Diris, Raymond Montizaan, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 91, 102774.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14644

Cigarette Taxes, Smoking, and Health in the Long Run

Andrew I. Friedson, Moyan Li, Katherine Meckel, Daniel I. Rees, Daniel W. Sacks

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14292

The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana

D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (1), 86-143.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13920

The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13442

Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees, James Reeves

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13252

Cigarette Taxes and Smoking in the Long Run

Andrew I. Friedson, Daniel I. Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13090

Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Europe

Giovanni Peri, Daniel I. Rees, Brock Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12783

Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees, Tianyi Wang

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, 103329.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12232

The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and Its Waning, 1910-1930

D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees, Tianyi Wang

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 78, 101341.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12077

Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 166-169.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11820

The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students

Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees, Bryson Rintala, Nathan Wozny

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2022, 75 (3), 693 - 715

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11773

Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 126-157.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11444

Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Daniel I. Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10951

The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Andrew P. Koller, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10590

Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares, Daniel I. Rees

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 143-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10074

The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Ryan Brown, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees

published as ' Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 4337-4383.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9144

Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3 (1), 60-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9053

Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl

Brian Duncan, Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'It's Just a Game: The Super Bowl and Low Birth Weight' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4) 946-978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8965

Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Benjamin Crost, Claire Duquennois, Joseph Felter, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, 379-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8718

Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments, and Violent Crime

D. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Crost, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (611), 1333-1366