D. Mark Anderson

Research Fellow

Montana State University

dwight.anderson@montana.edu

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D. Mark Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics & Economics at Montana State University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in 2011.

Dr. Anderson is an applied microeconomist with research interests in health economics and economic history. His research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, and Journal of Economic Literature.

Currently, Dr. Anderson is studying the relationship between U.S. public health interventions and mortality at the turn of the 20th century. He is also broadly interested in the historical relationship between medical innovation and the Black-White infant mortality gap.

Dr. Anderson joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in July 2016 and became an IZA Fellow in November 2021.

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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. 15843

Mandatory Seatbelt Laws and Traffic Fatalities: A Reassessment

D. Mark Anderson, Yang Liang, Joseph J. Sabia

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (3), 513-521

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. 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

forthcoming as 'Imposing Policy on Reluctant Actors: The Hospital Desegregation Campaign and Black Postneonatal Mortality in the Deep South' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12980

Cigarette Taxes and Teen Marijuana Use

D. Mark Anderson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia

published in: National Tax Journal, 2020, 73 (2), 475-510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12819

Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Mental Health

D. Mark Anderson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2021, 64 (1), 29-51.

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.