anna aizer Phone: (401) 863-9529
Office: Cabinet 307
Email: Anna_Aizer@brown.eduTitle: Assistant Professor, Economics
Research InterestsPrevious work has focused on the causes and consequences of low take-up of social programs and the impact of stricter child support enforcement on fertility and its implications with respect to maternal selection and child well-being.
Background
Anna Aizer received her degree in Economics from UCLA in 2003 and came to Brown in 2004 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. She is a labor and health economist with interests in the area of child health and well-being. Her current work considers the economic determinants and consequences of domestic violence. In particular, she studies domestic violence in a bargaining framework, examining how the incidence of violence varies with disparities in men and women's wages. In related work she explores the consequences of women's bargaining position within the home with respect to domestic violence on birth outcomes.
Recent Publications:
Access to Care, Provider Choice and Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality, with Adriana Lleras-Muney and Mark Stabile. NBER WP #10445.
Competition in Imperfect Markets: Does it Help California's Medicaid Mothers?, with Janet Currie and Enrico Moretti. NBER WP #10429.
The Impact of Child Support on Fertility, Parental Investments and Child Well-being, with Sara McLanahan. Princeton CRCW WP #2004-02-FF.
Advertising, Medicaid and Child Health, Brown WP #2003-20.
Parental Medicaid Expansions and Child Health Insurance Coverage, with Jeffrey Grogger. NBER WP #9907.
Networks or Neighborhoods? Interpreting Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded maternity Care in California, with Janet Currie, Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics.
Home Alone: Supervision After School and Child Behavior, Journal of Public Economics 2004.
Low Take-up in Medicaid: Does Outreach Matter and for Whom?, AER Papers and Proceedings 2003.