Heather Royer
Research Fellow
Heather Royers is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Her research focuses primarily on health economics. Her current research focuses on trying to disentangle the causal effect of education on health and fertility. She also has recently become interested in how information and incentives may affect health behaviors such as eating healthy and exercising regularly. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation..
She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in May 2016.
IZA-Publikationen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15987
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 113–141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12870
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (4), 1135–1174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10920
published as 'The impacts of reduced access to abortion and family planning services on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 43 - 68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10874
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 202 -214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9288
published in: American Economic Review: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 66 - 95
