Heather Royer Explained

Heather Royer
Birth Place:Fairbanks, Alaska
Children:2
Alma Mater:West Valley High School (Alaska)
Pomona College, B.A.
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D.
Website:https://econ.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/heather-royer
Doctoral Advisors:David Card
Field:Economics
Work Institutions:University of California at Santa Barbara, Case Western Reserve University

Heather Royer (born) 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 Stefanie Fischer and Corey White, she studied the effects of the closure of rural obstetrical units on infant and maternal health. The research reveals that while closures caused people to travel further in search of care, the care they received was of higher quality.[11]

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.[12] [13] [14]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Heather Royer. 2021-04-27. The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). en.
  2. Web site: Heather Royer. 2021-04-27. NBER. en.
  3. Web site: The Journal of Human Resources Past Editors. 2021-04-27. uwpress.wisc.edu.
  4. Web site: I'm delighted that Heather Royer will be joining AEJ-Policy as co-editor in September.. 2021-04-27. Twitter. en.
  5. Web site: 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.. 2021-04-27. Los Angeles Times. en-US.
  6. Web site: Heather Royer. 2021-04-27. longswims.com. en.
  7. Web site: Sep 04. John Zant Wed. 2019-09-04. Making Waves for Marcie. 2021-04-27. The Santa Barbara Independent. en-US.
  8. Web site: Alaska Swimming LSC : Hall of Fame. 2021-04-27. www.teamunify.com.
  9. Web site: Heather Royer IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. 2021-04-27. www.iza.org.
  10. Web site: Heather Royer – California Policy Lab. 15 September 2020 . 2021-04-27. en-US.
  11. Web site: Stefanie Fischer, Heather Royer, and Corey White. 2022 . 10.3386/w30141 . 2024-08-13. en-US . Fischer . Stefanie . Royer . Heather . White . Corey . Working Paper Series . National Bureau of Economic Research . Cambridge, MA .
  12. Web site: Pinsker. Joe. 2015-06-30. Ask an Economist: How Can You Trick Yourself Into Going to the Gym?. 2021-04-27. The Atlantic. en.
  13. News: Barro. Josh. 2015-01-10. How to Make Yourself Go to the Gym. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-04-27. 0362-4331.
  14. Web site: Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going. 2021-04-27. ScienceDaily. en.

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