Timothy Halliday
Professor of Economics
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
halliday [at] hawaii [dot] edu
Bio
Tim Halliday is an empirical microeconomist who works at the intersection of health and labor economics. Professor Halliday served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 2016 to 2020. He is also a research fellow at UHERO in Honolulu and the IZA in Bonn. His research primarily focuses on transmissions of economic status across generations, the socioeconomic determinants of health capital, the effects of health insurance on medical consumption for poorer populations, and the health impacts of air pollution. His work has been published in the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics and has been featured in numerous media outlets including Politico and USA Today. He has also contributed as an opinion writer to the Wall Street Journal. He earned his PhD in economics from Princeton.
My CV is available here.
Selected Publications
Intergenerational Mobility in Self-Reported Health Status in the US
Journal of Public Economics, 2021
Co-authors: Bhash Mazumder and Ashley Wong
The Mortality Effects of Reduced Medicaid Coverage Among International Migrants in Hawaii: 2012-2018
American Journal of Public Health, 2020
Co-authors: Teresa Molina, Tetine Sentell, Randy Akee, Alvin Onaka, and Brian Horiuchi
Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates
The Economic Journal, 2019
Co-authors: John Lynham and Aureo de Paula
European Economic Review, 2012
Sole authored
Testing for State Dependence with Time-variant Transition Probabilities
Econometric Reviews, 2007
Sole authored
Migration, Risk and Liquidity Constraints in El Salvador
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2006
Sole authored
Personal
In my spare time, I practice yoga and Aikido and play the bass .... to varying degrees of competence.