Rusty Tchernis

Research Fellow

Georgia State University

Rusty Tchernis is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His primary areas of research are Applied Econometrics, Health Economics, and Labor Economics. Within these fields he is interested in program evaluation, spatial econometrics, and Bayesian methods, as well as the economics of childhood obesity. His work has been published in variety of journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, Journal of Human Resources and Review of Economic Studies. His research has been funded by various organizations, including the National Institutes of Health and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Prior to becoming a faculty member at the Andrew Young School, Rusty Tchernis was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Indiana University and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2011.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7657
published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 2185-2224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7453
published as 'Persistence in Body Mass Index in a Recent Cohort of US Children' in: Economics an Human Biology, 2015, 17, 157-176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5316
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (1), 1-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3664
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (3), 640-654
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