Heather Royer
Bornc. 1974
Fairbanks, Alaska
Alma materWest Valley High School (Alaska)
Pomona College, B.A.
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D.
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, Case Western Reserve University
Doctoral advisorsDavid Card
Websitehttps://econ.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/heather-royer

Heather Royer (born c. 1974) is an American economist who is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara[1] and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[2] She has been an Associate Editor of The Journal of Human Resources,[3] the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and will become coeditor of the AEA Journal of Economic Policy in September 2021.[4]

She was a member of the women's team that set a world record in a swimming relay from Palos Verdes to Santa Catalina Island in 1994,[5] and swam the English Channel in 1999.[6][7] She is a member of the Alaska Swimming Hall of Fame.[8]

Research

Royer's research focuses on causal inference in health economics.[9] She has studied how education affects health using variation induced by school-entry and compulsory schooling policies in the U.S. and in England.[10] In work with Mariana Carrera, she also found that commitment contracts, which offered people funds to go to the gym during a three-month experiment period, were effective at motivating people to develop a habit of gym-going that lasted for years after the experiment ended.[11][12][13]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "Heather Royer". The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  2. ^ "Heather Royer". NBER. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. ^ "The Journal of Human Resources Past Editors". uwpress.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  4. ^ "I'm delighted that Heather Royer will be joining AEJ-Policy as co-editor in September". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  5. ^ Klein, Gary (1994-08-25). "Having a Really, Relay Good Time : Swimming: Six members of the Pomona-Pitzer women's team set a world record in relay from Palos Verdes to Catalina Island". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  6. ^ "Heather Royer". longswims.com. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  7. ^ Sep 04, John Zant Wed (2019-09-04). "Making Waves for Marcie". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2021-04-27.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Alaska Swimming LSC : Hall of Fame". www.teamunify.com. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  9. ^ "Heather Royer | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  10. ^ "Heather Royer – California Policy Lab". Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  11. ^ Pinsker, Joe (2015-06-30). "Ask an Economist: How Can You Trick Yourself Into Going to the Gym?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  12. ^ Barro, Josh (2015-01-10). "How to Make Yourself Go to the Gym". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  13. ^ "Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-04-27.


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