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J. Paul Leigh

Department of Public Health Sciences
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue, MS1C
Davis, California 95616-8638

(530) 754-8605
FAX (530) 752-3239

pleigh@ucdavis.edu

ACADEMIC TRAINING

University of Oregon B.A.
University of Wisconsin Ph.D.

FIELDS OF STUDY

Econometrics, Health and Labor Economics

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Statistics, Econometrics, Labor Economics, Forecasting, Health Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Health Services Administration

ACADEMIC JOBS

1998 - Present University of California, Davis, CA
Professor of Public Health Sciences
1986 - 1998
1981 - 1984
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Assistant, Associate and Professor of Economics
1986 - 2005 Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Senior Health Economist
1984 - 1986 University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine

AWARD

Winner of the 2007 John Howard NIOSH Director's Award for Outstanding Research
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/updates/upd-10-20-08.html

BOOKS

Leigh JP, Markowitz SB, Fahs M, Landrigan PJ. Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illness. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Mich.. 2000.

Leigh, JP. Causes of Death in the Workplace. Quorum/Greenwood, Westport Conn. 1995.

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Shapiro S, Ruttenberg R, Leigh JP (2009) The social costs of dangerous products: An empirical investigation. Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. 18(3):775-830.

Leigh, JP, Geraghty, EM (2008) High gasoline prices and mortality from motor vehicle crashes and air pollution. J Occup Environ Med. Mar;50(3):249-54.

Leigh JP, White RH (2007) An economic model of adverse events and costs for oral anticoagulants used for atrial fibrillation. Curr Med Res Opin. Sep;23(9):2071-81.

Leigh JP, McCurdy SA (2006) Differences in workers' compensation disability and impairment ratings under old and new California law.
(View Manuscript). J Occup Environ Med.. 48(4):419-425.

Leigh JP, Schembri M (2004) Instrumental variables technique: cigarette price provided better estimate of effects of smoking on SF-12 . J. Clinical Epidemiology. 57(3):284-293.

Leigh JP, Marcin JP, Miller TR (2004) An estimate of the U.S. Government's undercount of nonfatal occupational injuries. J Occup Environ Med. 46(1):10-18.

Leigh JP, Robbins JA (2004) Occupational disease and workers' compensation: coverage, costs, and consequences.. Milbank Q. . 82(4):689-721.

Leigh, JP, Kravitz, RL, Schembri, M, Samuels, SJ and Mobley, S (2002) Physician career satisfaction across specialties. Arch Intern Med. 162(14):1577-84.

Leigh, JP, Markowitz, SB., Fahs, M ,Shin, C and Landrigan, PJ (1997) Occupational injury and illness in the United States. Estimates of costs, morbidity, and mortality. Arch Intern Med. 157(14):1557-1568.

Leigh, JP (1995) Compensating Wages, Value of a Statistical Life, and Interindustry Differentials. J.Environ.Econ.Manage.. 28(1):83-97.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1991) Occupation, income, and education as independent covariates of arthritis in four national probability samples. Arthritis Rheum. 34(8):984-995.

Berger, MC, Leigh, JP (1989) Schooling, Self-selection, and Health. J. Human Resour.. 24(3):433-455.

Leigh, JP (1986) Accounting for Tastes - Correlates of Risk and Time-preferences. J. Post Keynes. Econ.. 9(1):17-31.

Leigh, JP (1983) Direct and indirect effects of education on health. Soc Sci Med. 17(4):227-234.

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