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J. Paul Leigh, PhD

Department of Public Health Sciences
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue, TB-168
Davis, California 95616-8638

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

pleigh@ucdavis.edu

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Leigh JP (2008) A market-based proposal to reduce occupational injuries and illnesses. Occupational Safety and Health Reporter. 38(24):478-481.

Leigh JP, Wiatrowski W, Gillen M, et al. (2008) Characteristics of persons and jobs with needlestick injuries in a national data set.. American Journal of Infection Control. 36(6):414-420.

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.

Franks P, Jerant AF, Leigh JP, Lee D, Chiem A, Lewis I, Lee S (2007) Cigarette prices, smoking, and the poor: implications of recent trends. Am J Public Health. Oct;97(10):1873-7.

Leigh JP, Gillen M, Franks P, Sutherland S, Nguyen HH, Steenland K, Xing G (2007) Costs of needlestick injuries and subsequent hepatitis and HIV infection. Curr Med Res Opin. Sep;23(9):2093-105.

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 (2006) Expanding research on the economics of occupational health.. Scand J Work Environ Health. . 32(1):1-4.

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

Leigh JP, Waehrer G, Miller TR, McCurdy SA (2006) Costs differences across demographic groups and types of occupational injuries and illnesses.. Am J Ind Med. . 49(10):845-853.

Leigh JP, Hubert HB, Romano PS (2005) Lifestyle risk factors predict healthcare costs in an aging cohort.. Am J Prev Med.. 29(5):379-387.

Marcin JP, Song J, Leigh JP. (2005) The impact of pediatric intensive care unit volume on mortality: a hierarchical instrumental variable analysis.. Pediatr Crit Care Med.. 6(2):227-228.

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, Waehrer G, Miller TR, Keenan C (2004) Costs of occupational injury and illness across industries . Scandinavian J Work Environment Health. 30(3):199-205.

Leigh JP, Waehrer G, Miller TR, Keenan C (2004) Supplemental Material to Costs of Occupational Injury and Illness Across Industries. Scandinavian J Work Environment Health. .

Waehrer G, Leigh JP, Cassady D, Miller TR. (2004) Costs of occupational injury and illness across states.. J Occup Environ Med.. 46(10):1084-1095.

Kravitz, RL, Leigh, JP, Samuels, SJ, Schembri, M and Gilbert, WM (2003) Tracking career satisfaction and perceptions of quality among US obstetricians and gynecologists. Obstet. Gynecol.. 102(3):463-470.

Leigh, JP, Yasmeen, S, and Miller, TR (2003) Medical Costs of Fourteen Occupational Illnesses in the U.S., 1999. Scandinavian J Work, Environment Health. 29(4):304-313.

Leigh, JP and Fries, JF (2002) Frailty and education in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 13(1):112-27.

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, Romano, PS, Schenker, MB, and Kreiss, K (2002) Costs of occupational COPD and asthma. Chest. 121(1):264-72.

Leigh, JP, Bowlus, CL, Leistikow, BN, and Schenker, M (2001) Costs of hepatitis C. Arch of Internal Med. 161(18):2231-2237.

Leigh, JP, Cone, JE, and Harrison, R (2001) Costs of occupational injuries and illnesses in California. Preventive Medicine. 32(5):393-406.

Leigh, JP, McCurdy, SA and Schenker, MB (2001) Costs of occupational injuries in agriculture. Public Health Rep. 116(3):235-48.

Leigh, JP, Seavey, W, and Leistikow, B (2001) Estimating the costs of job related arthritis. J Rheumat. 28(7):1647-1654.

Leigh, JP, Garcia, JA (2000) Some problems with value-of-life estimates based on labor market data. J Forensic Economcs. 13(2):127-143.

Leigh, JP, Schnall, P (2000) Costs of occupational circulatory disease. Occupational Medicine-State of the Art Reviews. 15(1):257-267.

Leigh, JP, Hoskin, AF (1999) Hazards for nearby residents and cleanup workers of waste sites. J Occup Environ Med. 41(5):331-348.

Leigh, JP (1998) Parents' schooling and the correlation between education and frailty. Econ. Educ. Rev.. 17(3):349-358.

Leigh, JP (1998) The social benefits of education: a review article. Econ. Educ. Rev.. 17(3):363-368.

Leigh, JP (1998) A report card for occupational injuries and illnesses. Am. J. Ind. Med.. 33(4):422-424.

Leigh, JP, Miller, TR (1998) Occupational illnesses within two national data sets. Int J Occup Environ Health. 4(2):99-113.

Leigh, JP, Miller, TR (1998) Job-related diseases and occupations within a large workers' compensation data set. Am J Ind Med. 33(3):197-211.

Ward, MM, Lubeck, D and ,Leigh, JP (1998) Longterm health outcomes of patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated in managed care and fee-for-service practice settings. J Rheumatol. 25(4):641-649.

Leigh, JP, Bernstein, J (1997) Public and private workers' compensation insurance. J. Occup. Environ. Med.. 39(2):119-121.

Leigh, JP, Dhir, R (1997) Schooling and frailty among seniors. Econ. Educ. Rev.. 16(1):45-57.

Leigh, JP, Lubeck, DP, Farnham, P and Fried, JF (1997) Absenteeism and HIV infection. Appl. Econ. Lett.. 4(5):275-280.

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, Miller, TR (1997) Ranking occupations based upon the costs of job-related injuries and diseases. J Occup Environ Med. 39(12):1170-1182.

Leigh, JP, Ward, MM (1997) Medical costs in workers' compensation insurance: comment. J Health Econ. 16(5):619-622.

Leigh, JP (1996) Occupations, cigarette smoking, and lung cancer in the epidemiological follow-up to the NHANES I and the California occupational mortality study. Bull. N. Y. Acad. med.. 73(2):370-397.

Leigh, JP (1996) Alcohol abuse and job hazards. J. Saf. Res.. 27(1):17-32.

Leigh, JP (1995) Smoking, self-selection and absenteeism. Q. Rev. Econ. Financ.. 35(4):365-386.

Leigh, JP (1995) Dangerous Jobs and Heavy Alcohol-use in 2 National Probability Samples. Alcohol Alcohol.. 30(1):71-86.

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

Leigh, JP, Lubeck, DP, Farnham P, and Fries, JF (1995) Potential and Actual Workdays Lost Among Patients With hiv. J. Acquir. Immune Defic. Syndr. Hum. Retrovirol.. 8(4):392-398.

Leigh, JP, Lubeck, DP, Farnham, PG and Fries, JF (1995) Hours at Work and Employment Status Among Hiv-infected Patients. Aids. 9(1):81-88.

Hoskin, AF, Leigh, JP, and Planek, TW (1994) Estimated Risk of Occupational Fatalities Associated With Hazardous-waste Site Remediation. Risk Anal.. 14(6):1011-1017.

Leigh, JP (1994) Nonrandom Assignment, Vehicle Safety Inspection Laws and Highway Fatalities. Public Choice. 78(3-4):373-387.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1994) Education, Gender, and the Compression of Morbidity. Int. J. Aging Human Dev.. 39(3):233-246.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1994) Arthritis and Mortality in the Epidemiologic Follow-up to the National-health and Nutrition Examination Survey-i. Bull. N. Y. Acad. med.. 71(1):69-86.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1994) Correlations Between Education and Arthritis in the 1971-1975 Nhanes-i. Soc. Sci. Med.. 38(4):575-583.

Leigh, JP (1993) Multidisciplinary Findings on Socioeconomic-status and Health. Am. J. Public Health. 83(2):289-290.

Leigh, JP, Berger, MC (1993) An econometric technique to remove unobserved variables that bias the relationship between alcohol and blood pressure. J Stud Alcohol. 54(2):225-234.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1993) Tobit, Fixed Effects, and Cohort Analyses of the Relationship Between Severity and Duration of Rheumatoid-arthritis. Soc. Sci. Med.. 36(11):1495-1502.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1993) Associations Among Healthy Habits, Age, Gender, and Education in a Sample of Retirees. Int. J. Aging Human Dev.. 36(2):139-155.

Leigh, JP, Jiang, WY (1993) Liver cirrhosis deaths within occupations and industries in the California occupational mortality study. Addiction. 88(6):767-779.

Leigh, JP, Ward, MM and Fries, JF (1993) Reducing attrition bias with an instrumental variable in a regression model: results from a panel of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Stat Med. 12(11):1005-1018.

Ward, MM, Leigh, JP (1993) The Relative Importance of Pain and Functional Disability to Patients With Rheumatoid-arthritis. J. Rheumatol.. 20(9):1494-1499.

Ward, MM, Leigh, JP (1993) Pooled Time-series Regression-analysis in Longitudinal-studies. J. Clin. Epidemiol.. 46(7):645-659.

Ward, MM, Leigh, JP (1993) Marital-status and the Progression of Functional Disability in Patients With Rheumatoid-arthritis. Arthritis Rheum.. 36(5):581-588.

Ward, MM, Leigh, JP, and Fries, JF (1993) Progression of Functional Disability in Patients With Rheumatoid-arthritis - Associations With Rheumatology Subspecialty Care. Arch. Intern. Med.. 153(19):2229-2237.

Leigh, JP (1992) Distribution of Lifetime Income Allowing for Varying Mortality-rates Among Women, Men, Blacks, and Whites. J. Econ. Issues. 26(4):1191-1220.

Leigh, JP (1992) International Comparisons of Physicians Salaries. Int. J. Health Serv.. 22(2):217-220.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1992) Disability in occupations in a national sample. Am J Public Health. 82(11):1517-1524.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1992) Health habits, health care use and costs in a sample of retirees. Inquiry. 29(1):44-54.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1992) Predictors of Disability in a Longitudinal Sample of Patients With Rheumatoid-arthritis. Ann. Rheum. Dis.. 51(5):581-587.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF, and Hubert, HB (1992) Gender and Race Differences in the Correlation Between Body-mass and Education in the 1971-1975 Nhanes-i. J. Epidemiol. Community Health. 46(3):191-196.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF, and Parikh, N (1992) Severity of Disability and Duration of Disease in Rheumatoid-arthritis. J. Rheumatol.. 19(12):1906-1911.

Leigh, JP, Hunter, C (1992) Health policy and the distribution of lifetime income. Milbank Q. 70(2):341-359.

Leigh, JP, Richardson, N, Beck, R, Kerr, C, Harrington, H, Parcell, CL, and Fries, JF (1992) Randomized Controlled-study of a Retiree Health Promotion Program - the Bank-of-america Study. Arch. Intern. Med.. 152(6):1201-1206.

Leigh, JP (1991) A ranking of occupations based on the blood pressures of incumbents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I. J Occup Med. 33(8):853-861.

Leigh, JP (1991) No Evidence of Compensating Wages for Occupational Fatalities. Ind. Relat.. 30(3):382-395.

Leigh, JP (1991) Employee and job Attributes as Predictors of Absenteeism in a National Sample of Workers - the Importance of Health and Dangerous Working-conditions. Soc. Sci. Med.. 33(2):127-137.

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.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1991) Mortality Predictors Among 263 Patients With Rheumatoid-arthritis. J. Rheumatol.. 18(9):1307-1312.

Leigh, JP, Fries, JF (1991) Education Level and Rheumatoid-arthritis - Evidence From 5 Data Centers. J. Rheumatol.. 18(1):24-34.

Leigh, JP, Gill, AM (1991) Do Women Receive Compensating Wages for Risks of Dying on the job. Soc. Sci. Q.. 72(4):727-737.

Leigh, JP, Waldon, HM (1991) Unemployment and Highway Fatalities. J. Health Polit. Policy Law. 16(1):135-156.

Leigh, JP, Wilkinson, JT (1991) The Effect of Gasoline Taxes on Highway Fatalities. J. Policy Anal. Manage.. 10(3):474-481.

Sass, TR, Leigh, JP (1991) The Market for Safety Regulation and the Effect of Regulation on Fatalities - the Case of Motorcycle Helmet Laws. Rev. Econ. Stat.. 73(1):167-172.

Leigh, JP (1990) The Decision to Strike as a Decision to Allocate Time. Appl. Econ.. 22(9):1249-1266.

Leigh, JP (1990) The Excess Mortality of Black Adults in the United-states. JAMA-J. Am. Med. Assoc.. 264(5):572-572.

Leigh, JP (1990) Schooling and Seat-belt use. South. Econ. J.. 57(1):195-207.

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

Leigh, JP (1989) Compensating Wages for Job-related Death - the Opposing Arguments. J. Econ. Issues. 23(3):823-842.

Leigh, JP (1989) Specific Illnesses, Injuries, and job Hazards Associated With Absenteeism. J. Occup. Environ. Med.. 31(9):792-797.

Leigh, JP (1989) Cigarette Taxes - Regressive or Progressive. West. J. Med.. 150(4):467-467.

Leigh, JP, Berger, MC (1989) Effects of Smoking and Being Overweight on Current Earnings. Am. J. Prev. Med.. 5(1):8-14.

Leigh, JP, Sheetz, RM (1989) Prevalence of Back Pain Among Full-time United-states Workers. . 46(9):651-657.

Berger, MC, Leigh, JP (1988) The Effect of Alcohol-use on Wages. Appl. Econ.. 20(10):1343-1351.

Leigh, JP (1988) Assessing the Importance of an Independent Variable in Multiple-regression - is Stepwise Unwise. J. Clin. Epidemiol.. 41(7):669-677.

Leigh, JP (1988) Odds Ratios of Work Related Deaths in United-states Workers. . 45(3):158-166.

Leigh, JP (1988) Occupation and Coronary-disease - Schooling as a Confounder. JAMA-J. Am. Med. Assoc.. 259(10):1496-1497.

Leigh, JP, Frank, AL (1988) Gas Taxes and Motor-vehicle Fatalities. J. Health Polit. Policy Law. 13(4):723-734.

Leigh, JP, Lust, J (1988) Determinants of Employee Tardiness. Work Occup.. 15(1):78-95.

Leigh, JP (1987) Gender, Firm Size, Industry, and Estimates of the Value-of-life. J. Health Econ.. 6(3):255-273.

Leigh, JP (1987) The Effects of Unemployment on the Probability of Suffering a Disability. Work Occup.. 14(3):347-367.

Leigh, JP (1987) Estimates of the Probability of Job-related Death in 347 Occupations. J. Occup. Environ. Med.. 29(6):510-519.

Leigh, JP (1987) Light up and Make my day. JAMA-J. Am. Med. Assoc.. 257(4):483-483.

Leigh, JP (1987) Sex, Race, Age, and Hypertension as Determinants of Employee Absenteeism. Am. J. Epidemiol.. 125(1):168-169.

Leigh, JP, Frank, AL (1987) Tax Gasoline to Save Lives. N. Engl. J. Med.. 316(1):54-54.

Leigh, JP, Gonzalez, RA (1987) Government Policies Toward Tobacco Growing Promote Health. JAMA-J. Am. Med. Assoc.. 258(4):471-471.

Leigh, JP (1986) Occupational Hazards and Heart-attacks. Soc. Sci. Med.. 23(11):1181-1185.

Leigh, JP (1986) Are Compensating Wages Paid for Time Spent Commuting. Appl. Econ.. 18(11):1203-1213.

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

Leigh, JP (1986) Wage Differentials and Risk of Death - Comment. Econ. Inq.. 24(3):505-508.

Leigh, JP (1986) Who Chooses Risky Jobs. Soc. Sci. Med.. 23(1):57-64.

Leigh, JP (1986) Simple Linear-regression in Medical-research. N. Engl. J. Med.. 315(3):197-198.

Leigh, JP (1986) Individual and job Characteristics as Predictors of Industrial-accidents. Accid. Anal. Prev.. 18(3):209-216.

Leigh, JP (1986) Unemployment-insurance and the Duration of Unemployment - the Case for Reciprocal Effects. J. Post Keynes. Econ.. 8(3):387-399.

Leigh, JP (1986) Correlates of Absence From Work due to Illness. Hum. Relat.. 39(1):81-100.

Leigh, JP (1985) An empirical analysis of self-reported, work-limiting disability. Med Care. 23(4):310-319.

Leigh, JP (1985) Analysis of Workers Compensation Using Data on Individuals. Ind. Relat.. 24(2):247-256.

Leigh, JP (1985) The Effects of Unemployment and the Business-cycle on Absenteeism. J Econ Business. 37(2):159-170.

Leigh, JP (1985) Divorce as a Risky Prospect. Appl. Econ.. 17(2):309-320.

Leigh, JP (1984) Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wages for Accepting Employment in Strike-prone or Hazardous Industries. Soc. Sci. Q.. 65(1):89-99.

Leigh, JP (1984) A Bargaining Model and Empirical-analysis of Strike Activity Across Industries. J. Labor Res.. 5(2):127-137.

Leigh, JP (1984) Unionization and Absenteeism. Appl. Econ.. 16(1):147-157.

Leigh, JP, Folsom, RN (1984) Estimates of the Value of Accident Avoidance at the job Depend on the Concavity of the Equalizing Differences Curve. Q Rev Econ Business. 24(1):56-66.

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

Leigh, JP (1983) Job Choice Across Industries When Earnings are Uncertain. Q Rev Econ Business. 23(3):54-69.

Leigh, JP (1983) Sex-differences in Absenteeism. Ind. Relat.. 22(3):349-361.

Leigh, JP (1983) Education, Working-conditions, and Workers Health. Soc. Sci. J.. 20(2):99-107.

Leigh, JP (1983) Risk Preference and the Interindustry Propensity to Strike. Ind. Labor Relat. Rev.. 36(2):271-285.

Leigh, JP (1982) Education, Occupational-status, and Illness. Work Occup.. 9(4):441-456.

Leigh, JP (1982) Are Unionized Blue Collar Jobs More Hazardous Than Non-unionized Blue Collar Jobs. J. Labor Res.. 3(3):349-357.

Leigh, JP (1981) Compensating Wages for Occupational Injuries and Diseases. Soc. Sci. Q.. 62(4):772-778.

Leigh, JP (1981) Racial-differences in Compensating Wages for job Risks. Ind. Relat.. 20(3):318-321.

Leigh, JP (1981) The Effects of Union Membership on Absence From Work due to Illness. J. Labor Res.. 2(2):329-336.

Leigh, JP (1981) Occupational Choice Under Earnings Uncertainty. . 20(1):59-71.

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