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Thomas J. Kniesner is affiliated with Claremont Graduate University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research spans multiple subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Demography, General Decision Sciences, and Gender Studies.

The primary research topics covered by Kniesner encompass Healthcare Policy and Management, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Global Health Care Issues, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Sports Analytics and Performance, and Employment and Welfare Studies.

Kniesner has published research in various academic venues with frequent appearances in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • Contemporary Economic Policy
  • Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Kniesner are:

  • "The forgotten numbers: A closer look at COVID-19 non-fatal valuations" (2020), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • "Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs" (2023), Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • "Combat, casualties, and compensation: Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan" (2021), Contemporary Economic Policy
  • "Editor's Introduction: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs - Past, Present and Future" (2020), Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • "A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution" (2024), Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Kniesner's collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as W. Kip Viscusi, Ryan Sullivan, Quinn Keefer, and John D. Leeth.

Best Publications

  • On the Measurement of Job Risk in Hedonic Wage Models

    Dan A. Black;Thomas K. Kniesner

  • The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data

    Thomas J. Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi;Christopher Woock;James P. Ziliak

  • Compensating wage differentials for fatal injury risk in Australia, Japan, and the United States

    Thomas J. Kniesner;John D. Leeth

  • Estimating Life Cycle Labor Supply Tax Effects

    James P. Ziliak;Thomas J. Kniesner

  • Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life: New evidence from panel data quantile regressions

    Thomas J. Kniesner;Thomas J. Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi;James P. Ziliak

  • New evidence on labor supply:: Employment versus hours elasticities by sex and marital status

    Jean Kimmel;Thomas J. Kniesner

  • Estimating a Non-minimum Cost Function for Hospitals*

    B. Kelly Eakin;Thomas J. Kniesner

  • Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization

    Thomas J. Kniesner;James P. Ziliak

  • The importance of sample attrition in life cycle labor supply estimation

    Thomas J Kniesner;James P Ziliak

  • The Effect of Income Taxation on Consumption and Labor Supply

    James P. Ziliak;Thomas J. Kniesner

  • Chronic Illness and Health Insurance-Related Job Lock

    Kevin T. Stroupe;Eleanor D. Kinney;Thomas J.J. Kniesner

  • Educational Production Functions

    Solomon W. Polachek;Thomas J. Kniesner;Henrick J. Harwood

  • Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life

    Thomas J Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi;James P Ziliak

  • The Value of a Statistical Life

    Thomas J. Kniesner;Thomas J. Kniesner;Thomas J. Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi

  • Count Data Models with Variance of Unknown Form: An Application to a Hedonic Model of Worker Absenteeism

    Miguel A. Delgado;Thomas J. Kniesner

  • Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life

    Thomas Kniesner;James Ziliak;W Viscusi

  • AN INDIRECT TEST OF COMPLEMENTARITY IN A FAMILY LABOR SUPPLY MODEL

    Thomas J. Kniesner

  • Data Mining Mining Data: MSHA Enforcement Efforts, Underground Coal Mine Safety, and New Health Policy Implications

    Thomas J. Kniesner;John D. Leeth

  • The Value of a Statistical Life

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  • Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age

    Thomas J. Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi

  • Labor Economics: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

    Belton M. Fleisher;Thomas J. Kniesner

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Ziliak
James P. Ziliak University of Kentucky
W. Kip Viscusi
W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University
Dan A. Black
Dan A. Black University of Chicago
Solomon W. Polachek
Solomon W. Polachek Binghamton University
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond Stanford University
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Ronald G. Ehrenberg Cornell University
John S. Akin
John S. Akin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John M. Barron
John M. Barron Purdue University West Lafayette
Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University

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