Yonatan Ben-Shalom Office: Mergenthaler Hall 440 Cell Phone: (410) 710-9823 Department Fax: (410) 516-7600 E-mail: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Thesis:

"Maternal Employment, Household Nutrition, and Obesity" Abstract

Fields:

Labor and Demographic Economics, Applied Econometrics, Health Economics

Research:

"Maternal Employment and Houshold Food Production: Implications for Nutrition and Obesity" (job market paper) PDF
(Web Appendix: Energy Intake and Nutrient Densities PDF)

"Transitions in Maternal Employment and the Onset of Childhood Obesity" (in progress)

"Transitions from Welfare to Work and Childhood Obesity in Low Income Families" (in progress)

"Estimating the Incidence of Federal Spending: First Steps Using Education" with Nabeel Alsalam (CBO), August 2006

Presentations:

Population Association of America Annual Meeting (Poster),
New Orleans, April 2008

International Association for Time Use Research Conference,
Washington D.C., October 2007

USDA Economic Research Service (ERS),
Washington D.C., May 2007

Congressional Budget Office (CBO),
Washington D.C., July 2006

Teaching:

Economics of Health, Fall 2008, TA

Elements of Microeconomics, Spring 2006 and 2007, TA

Population Economics, Fall 2005, TA

References

Professor Robert Moffitt -

Professor Bruce Hamilton -

Nabeel Alsalam -