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Email: patty.anderson@dartmouth.edu Phone: 603 646-2532 Office: 6106 Rockefeller Hall
Education
B.A. College of William and Mary; M.A. Princeton University; Ph.D. Princeton University
Areas of Expertise
Childhood obesity and economics; unemployment insurance; labor markets
Selected Works
"Reading, Writing and Refreshments: Are School Finances Contributing to Children's Obesity?" with K Butcher, Journal of Human Resources, 41 (2006) (Summer 2006) 467-494.
"Causes of the Increase in Childhood Overweight and Obesity," with K Butcher, Future of Children, 16 (Spring 2006) 19-46.
"Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax," with B Meyer, National Tax Journal, 61 (March 2006) 77-95.
"Maternal Employment and Overweight Children," with P Levine and K Butcher, Journal of Health Economics, 22 (May 2003) 477-504.
"Economic Perspectives on Childwood Obesity," with P Levine and K Butcher, Economic Perspectives, Third Quarter Edition (2003) 30-48.
Current Projects
"Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?"
