Robert Kaestner

Latest Institution: University of Chicago

All Institutions: University of Illinois at Chicago; Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago; Rutgers University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Illinois; University of Michigan; University of Chicago; Baruch College, CUNY; Institute of Government and Public Affairs; Cornell University; Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois; NA; Baruch College; Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Johns Hopkins University; University of California, Riverside; University of Iowa; Tulane University; Institute of Government and Public Affairs, The Graduate Center, Baruch College, CUNY; Institute of Government and Public Affairs, National Bureau of Economic Research


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Based on the Following Papers:

The Effect of Illicit Drug Use on the Wages of Young Adults

Year: 1990
Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
Authors: Robert Kaestner

Does Drug Use Cause Poverty

Year: 1998
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner

Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes

Year: 2001
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dhaval Dave; Robert Kaestner

Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Year: 2001
Journal: Journal of Population Economics
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Neeraj Kaushal

Migration Consequences of Welfare Reform

Year: 2001
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Neeraj Kaushal; Gregg Van Ryzin

Has Welfare Reform Changed Teenage Behaviors?

Year: 2002
Journal: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Authors: Robert Kaestner; June O'Neill

Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health: A National Evaluation

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Lisa Dubay; Genevieve Kenney

Get High and Get Stupid: The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior

Year: 2002
Journal: Review of Economics of the Household
Authors: Michael Grossman; Robert Kaestner; Sara Markowitz

Welfare Reform and Nonmarital Fertility in the 1990s: Evidence from Birth Records

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Theodore Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Sanders Korenman

Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors Among Young Adults

Year: 2002
Journal: Economics and Human Biology
Authors: Sara Markowitz; Pinka Chatterji; Robert Kaestner; Dhaval Dave

Do Minimum Wages Affect Nonwage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions

Year: 2003
Journal: Industria
Authors: Kosali Ilayperuma Simon; Robert Kaestner

Welfare Reform and Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Income Families

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Neeraj Kaushal

Changes in the Welfare Caseload and the Health of Low-Educated Mothers

Year: 2003
Journal: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Elizabeth Tarlov

The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Won Chan Lee

Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Attempts Among Youth: Correlation or Causation?

Year: 2003
Journal: Economics and Human Biology
Authors: Pinka Chatterji; Dhaval Dave; Robert Kaestner; Sara Markowitz

What Did the Illegitimacy Bonus Reward?

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Sanders Korenman; Ted Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Jennifer Walper

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Policies on Youth STDs

Year: 2004
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Michael Grossman; Robert Kaestner; Sara Markowitz

Family Cap Provisions and Changes in Births and Abortions

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ted Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Sanders Korenman; Stanley Henshaw

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Policies on Youth Risky Sexual Behaviors

Year: 2005
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Sara Markowitz; Robert Kaestner; Michael Grossman

Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Xin Xu

Methodological Issues in the Evaluation of Parental Involvement Laws: Evidence from Texas

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Silvie Colman; Theodore J. Joyce; Robert Kaestner

Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dhaval Dave; Robert Kaestner

Prescription Drug Insurance and Its Effect on Utilization and Health of the Elderly

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Nasreen Khan; Robert Kaestner; Swu Jane Lin

Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement

Year: 2008
Journal: Economics of Education Review
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Michael Grossman

Reexamining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dhaval M. Dave; Sandra Decker; Robert Kaestner; Kosali I. Simon

Adolescent Cognitive and Noncognitive Correlates of Adult Health

Year: 2009
Journal: Journal of Human Capital
Authors: Robert Kaestner

Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Michael Grossman; Benjamin Yarnoff

Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities

Year: 2009
Journal: Journal of Law and Economics
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Benjamin Yarnoff

The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Health Care Spending

Year: 2009
Journal: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Authors: Anthony T. Lo Sasso; Lorens A. Helmchen; Robert Kaestner

Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Zhenxiang Zhao; Robert Kaestner

Health and Health Insurance Trajectories of Mexicans in the US

Year: 2010
Journal: International Economics
Authors: Neeraj Kaushal; Robert Kaestner

The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?

Year: 2010
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Rachel A. Gordon; Robert Kaestner; Sanders Korenman; Kristin Abner

Self-Selection and International Migration: New Evidence from Mexico

Year: 2010
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Ofer Malamud

The Business Cycle and Health Behaviors

Year: 2010
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Xin Xu; Robert Kaestner

Medicare Part D and Its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services, and Health of the Elderly

Year: 2010
Journal: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Nasreen Khan

Does Seeing the Doctor More Often Keep You Out of the Hospital?

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Anthony T. Lo Sasso

Do Higher Tobacco Taxes Reduce Adult Smoking? New Evidence of the Effect of Recent Cigarette Tax Increases on Adult Smoking

Year: 2012
Journal: Economic Inquiry
Authors: Kevin Callison; Robert Kaestner

The Effect of Medicaid Expansions in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s on the Labor Supply of Pregnant Women

Year: 2013
Journal: American Journal of Health Economics
Authors: Dhaval M. Dave; Sandra L. Decker; Robert Kaestner; Kosali Ilayperuma Simon

Effects of Prescription Drug Insurance on Hospitalization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Cuiping Long; G. Caleb Alexander

Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

Year: 2015
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Laura R. Wherry; Sarah Miller; Robert Kaestner; Bruce D. Meyer

Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Dhaval M. Dave; Robert Kaestner; George L. Wehby

Effects of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply

Year: 2015
Journal: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Bowen Garrett; Anuj Gangopadhyaya; Caitlyn Fleming

Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Authors: George Wehby; Dhaval Dave; Robert Kaestner

The Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Financial Wellbeing

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: LuoJia Hu; Robert Kaestner; Bhashkar Mazumder; Sarah Miller; Ashley Wong

Early Childhood Health Shocks and Adult Wellbeing: Evidence from Wartime Britain

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeffrey C. Schiman; Robert Kaestner; Anthony T. Lo Sasso

A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions: Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing?

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: David A. Jaeger; Theodore J. Joyce; Robert Kaestner

An Assessment of the Forward-Looking Hypothesis of the Demand for Cigarettes

Year: 2018
Journal: Southern Economic Journal
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Kevin Callison

A Test of Supply-Side Explanations of Geographic Variation in Health Care Use

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Callison; Robert Kaestner; Jason Ward

The ACA Medicaid Expansion in Michigan and Financial Health

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Authors: Sarah Miller; LuoJia Hu; Robert Kaestner; Bhashkar Mazumder; Ashley Wong

Tweet Sixteen and Pregnant: Missing Links in the Causal Chain from Reality TV to Fertility

Year: 2019
Journal: Empirical Economics
Authors: David A. Jaeger; Theodore J. Joyce; Robert Kaestner

The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on Minor Abortion

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Theodore J. Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Jason Ward

Mortality and Socioeconomic Consequences of Prescription Opioids: Evidence from State Policies

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Engy Ziedan

Education and Health over the Life Cycle

Year: 2020
Journal: Economics of Education Review
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Cuiping Schiman; Jason M. Ward

Effect of Prescription Opioids and Prescription Opioid Control Policies on Infant Health

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Engy Ziedan; Robert Kaestner

Effects of the Minimum Wage on Child Health

Year: 2020
Journal: American Journal of Health Economics
Authors: George Wehby; Robert Kaestner; Wei Lyu; Dhaval M. Dave

Did the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Reduce Readmissions? An Assessment of Prior Evidence and New Estimates

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Engy Ziedan; Robert Kaestner

Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys: Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior

Year: 2021
Journal: ILR Review
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Ofer Malamud

Smoking Selection and Medical Care Expenditures

Year: 2022
Journal: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Authors: Michael E. Darden; Robert Kaestner

Export Expansion and Investment in Children's Human Capital: Evidence from the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian McCaig; Minh Nguyen; Robert Kaestner

Estimating a Theoretically Consistent Human Capital Production Function with an Application to Head Start

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert Kaestner; Luis F. Faundez


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