Bio

Chris Auld is an applied econometrician who studies issues in health behavior, the labor market, and education.

Publications

Selected Publications:

• Auld, M. C. (forthcoming) Effect of large scale social interactions on body weight, Journal of Health Economics.
• Auld, M.C. and Grootendorst, P. (forthcoming) Challenges for causal inference in obesity research, forthcoming, Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity, J. Cawley (ed), Oxford.
• Auld, M.C. and Powell, L. M. (2009) Economics of food energy density and adolescent body weight, Economica 76(304):719-40.
• Powell, L.M., Auld, M.C., Chaloupka F, et al. (2007) Associations between access to food stores and adolescent body mass index. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 33(4S):S301-S307.
• Auld, M.C. (2006) Estimating behavioral response to the AIDS epidemic. Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy 5 (article 12).
• Auld, M.C. (2005) Smoking, drinking, and income. Journal of Human Resources 40(2):505-518. (Reprinted in The Economics of Health Behaviors, vol II, Cawley and Kenkel (eds), Elgar 2008.)
• Auld, M.C. (2005) Causal effect of early initiation on adolescent smoking patterns. Canadian Journal of Economics 38(3):709-34. (Harry Johnson Prize for best paper in the CJE, 2005.)
• Auld, M.C. and Grootendorst, P. (2004) An empirical analysis of milk addiction. Journal of Health Economics 23:1117-1133. (Reprinted in The Economics of Health Behaviors, vol I, Cawley and Kenkel (eds), Elgar 2008.)
• Auld, M.C. (2003) Choices, beliefs, and infectious disease dynamics. Journal of Health Economics 22:361-377.

Courses

ECON 318, Health Economics

ECON 524, Health Economics

ECON 565, The Econometrics of Cross-section Data

Research Projects

Links

Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CARBC)