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Overview

John Cawley is a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant number of publications concentrating on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, and General Decision Sciences.

The research topics covered by John Cawley include obesity, physical activity, and diet, with additional focus on the economics of agriculture and food markets. Their studies also address food security and health in diverse populations, consumer market behavior and pricing, consumer attitudes and food labeling, economic and environmental valuation, and global health care issues.

Among their recent publications are several papers that have appeared in a variety of academic journals. These include:

  • Direct medical costs of obesity in the United States and the most populous states, 2021, Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
  • Oakland's sugar-sweetened beverage tax: Impacts on prices, purchases and consumption by adults and children, 2020, Economics & Human Biology
  • The medical care costs of obesity and severe obesity in youth: An instrumental variables approach, 2020, Health Economics
  • The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Prices and Product Availability, 2020, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • The Impact of Information Disclosure on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of Calorie Labels on Restaurant Menus, 2020, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

John Cawley has frequently published in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Health Economics, Economics & Human Biology, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Childhood Obesity.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Matthew D. Eisenberg, Rosemary J. Avery, Alan Mathios, David Frisvold, and Adam Biener.

Best Publications

  • The medical care costs of obesity: an instrumental variables approach.

    John Cawley;Chad Meyerhoefer

  • The Impact of Obesity on Wages

    John Cawley

  • Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking

    Christina A. Roberto;Boyd Swinburn;Corinna Hawkes;Terry T.-K. Huang;Terry T.-K. Huang

  • Beyond BMI: The value of more accurate measures of fatness and obesity in social science research

    Richard V. Burkhauser;John Cawley

  • The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

    John Cawley;Christopher J. Ruhm

  • An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance

    John Cawley;Tomas Philipson

  • The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the First Two Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions

    Kosali Simon;Aparna Soni;John Cawley

  • Maternal employment and childhood obesity: a search for mechanisms in time use data.

    John Cawley;Feng Liu

  • Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability

    John Cawley;James Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

  • Cost Effectiveness of Community-Based Physical Activity Interventions

    Larissa Roux;Michael Pratt;Tammy O. Tengs;Michelle M. Yore

  • An economic framework for understanding physical activity and eating behaviors.

    John Cawley

  • Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research

    John Cawley;Richard Burkhauser

  • The Economics Of Childhood Obesity

    John Cawley

  • An economy of scales: A selective review of obesity's economic causes, consequences, and solutions

    John Cawley

  • Direct medical costs of obesity in the United States and the most populous states.

    John Cawley;Adam Biener;Chad Meyerhoefer;Yuchen Ding

  • Lighting up and slimming down: the effects of body weight and cigarette prices on adolescent smoking initiation.

    John Cawley;Sara Markowitz;John A. Tauras

  • The impact of state physical education requirements on youth physical activity and overweight.

    John Cawley;Chad D Meyerhoefer;David Newhouse

  • Nutrition Labels and Obesity

    Jayachandran N. Variyam;John Cawley

  • Occupation-specific absenteeism costs associated with obesity and morbid obesity.

    John Cawley;John A. Rizzo;Kara Haas

  • Mobilisation of public support for policy actions to prevent obesity.

    Terry T-K Huang;Terry T-K Huang;John H Cawley;Marice Ashe;Sergio A Costa;Sergio A Costa

  • Obesity and skill attainment in early childhood.

    John Cawley;C. Katharina Spiess

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffery Sobal
Jeffery Sobal Cornell University
Michael A. Morrisey
Michael A. Morrisey Texas A&M University
Edward C. Norton
Edward C. Norton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sara Markowitz
Sara Markowitz Emory University
Elaine Wethington
Elaine Wethington Cornell University
Richard A. Hirth
Richard A. Hirth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christina A. Roberto
Christina A. Roberto University of Pennsylvania
Michael E. Chernew
Michael E. Chernew Harvard University
Donald S. Kenkel
Donald S. Kenkel Cornell University

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