Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: \\fpage.ad.uci.edu\kittc\_MG_7985 (3).JPGCHRISTOPHER (KITT) CARPENTER

PhD Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 2002

Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Economics/Public Policy

The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California at Irvine

 

Research Associate, NBER - National Bureau of Economic Research

Research Fellow, IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor

 

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society

Managing Editor and Co-Editor, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association

Editorial Board, BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy

 

Contact Information:

428 SB

Irvine, CA  92697-3125

949.824.6112 office

Email: kittc [AT] uci [DOT] edu

 

Curriculum Vitae (January 2011, pdf)

 

 

Recent Publications and Working Papers (comments welcome)

 

“Insurance Mandates and Mammography,” (December 2010 draft, with Marianne P. Bitler).  Also released as NBER Working Paper #16669.

“The Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, and Crime,” (December 2010 draft, with Carlos Dobkin).

“The Effect of Requiring Private Employers to Extend Health Benefit Eligibility to Same-Sex Partners of Employees: Evidence from California,” (July 2011 draft, with Thomas Buchmueller) forthcoming at Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  Previous (June 2010) version with different title: “Sexual Orientation, Health Insurance, and Domestic Partner Benefits: Evidence from Before and After California's AB205 Law”.

“The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health,” (with Carlos Dobkin).  Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(2): 133-56.

“Public Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS),” (with Sabina Postolek and Casey Warman).  American Economic Journal – Economic Policy 3(3): 35-61.  Also released as NBER Working Paper #15849.

“Intended and Unintended Consequences of Youth Bicycle Helmet Laws,” (March 2010 draft, with Mark Stehr) Journal of Law & Economics, forthcoming.  Earlier version also available as NBER Working Paper #15658.

 “The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age,” (with Carlos Dobkin) American Economic Journal - Applied Economics (2009) 1(1): 164-182.  Appendix material.  Earlier version available as NBER Working Paper #13374.

 

Older Papers:

Public Policy and the Causes and Consequences of Alcohol Use:

“Alcohol Regulation and Crime,” (March 2010 draft, with Carlos Dobkin).  To appear in Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs (NBER and University of Chicago Press).  Also available as NBER Working Paper #15828.

“The Effects of Sunday Sales Restrictions on Overall and Day-Specific Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Canada,” (with Daniel Eisenberg) Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (2009) 70(1): 126-133.

“Alcohol Control Policies and Youth Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from 28 Years of Monitoring the Future,” (with Deborah D. Kloska, Patrick O'Malley, and Lloyd Johnston) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007) 7(1): Article 25 (Topics).

“Heavy Alcohol Use and Crime: Evidence from Underage Drunk Driving Laws,” Journal of Law and Economics (2008) 50(3): 539-557.

“Did Ontario's Zero Tolerance & Graduated Licensing Law Reduce Youth Drunk Driving?,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2006) 25(1): 163-185.

“Heavy Alcohol Use and the Commission of Nuisance Crime: Evidence from Underage Drunk Driving Laws,” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (2005) 95(2): 267-272.

“Youth Alcohol Use and Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Underage Drunk Driving Laws,” Journal of Health Economics (2005) 24(3) 613-628.

“Heavy Alcohol Use and Youth Suicide: Evidence from Tougher Drunk Driving Laws,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2004) 23(4): 831-842.

“How Do Zero Tolerance Drunk Driving Laws Work?,” Journal of Health Economics (2004) 23(1): 61-83.

 

Other Health, Workplace, and Productivity Topics:

“Effects of Venue-Specific State Clean Indoor Air Laws on Smoking-Related Outcomes” (August 2009 draft, with Marianne P. Bitler and Madeline Zavodny) Health Economics (2010) 19(12): 1425-1440.  Also available as NBER Working Paper #15229.  Data Appendix to published version available here.

“Proximity of Fast-Food Restaurants to Schools and Adolescent Obesity,”(with Brennan Davis) American Journal of Public Health (2009) 99(3): 505-510.

“The Effects of Local Workplace Smoking Laws on Smoking Restrictions and Exposure to Smoke at Work,” Journal of Human Resources (2009) 44(4): 1023-1046.  (May 2008 draft posted here).  Earlier version (under different title) also available as NBER Working Paper #13133.

“The Effects of Mandatory Seatbelt Laws on Seatbelt Use, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and Crash-Related Injuries among Youths,” (with Mark Stehr) Journal of Health Economics, (2008) 27(3): 642-662.  Earlier version available as NBER Working Paper #13408.

“Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys,” (with Phil Cook) Journal of Health Economics, (2008) 27(2): 287-299.  Earlier version available as NBER Working Paper #13046.

 

On Sexual Orientation and Socioeconomic Outcomes:

“Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage, Access, and Outcomes for Individuals in Same-Sex versus Different-Sex Relationships, 2000-2007” (with Thomas Buchmueller) American Journal of Public Health (2010) 100(3): 489-495.

“Sexual Orientation and Outcomes in College,” Economics of Education Review (2009) 28(6): 693-703.

“Gay and Lesbian Partnership: Evidence from California,” (with Gary Gates), Demography (2008) 45(3): 573-590.

“Sexual Orientation, Work, and Income in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Economics (2008) 41(4): 1239-1261.

“Sexual Orientation, Income, and Non-Pecuniary Economic Outcomes: New Evidence from Young Lesbians in Australia,” Review of Economics of the Household (2008) 6(4): 391-408).

“Revisiting the Income Penalty for Behaviorally Gay Men: Evidence from NHANES III,” Labour Economics (2007) 14: 25-34.

“Self-Reported Sexual Orientation and Earnings: Evidence from California,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review (2005) 58(2): 258-273.

“New Evidence on Gay and Lesbian Household Incomes,” Contemporary Economic Policy (2004) 22:78-94.

 

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