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Todd Elder

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Address: 105 Old Botany
Tel: 517.355.0353
Fax: 517.432.1068
E-mail: telder@msu.edu
Web: https://www.msu.edu/~telder/

Curriculum Vitae


Tu 2:00 – 3:30

  • EC 420-002 | TuTh 10:20-11:40a | 117 BH
  • EC 881-001 | TuTh 12:40-2:00p | 104 BH
  • Economics of education and early child development
  • Program evaluation
  • Expectations formation among the elderly
  • Dickert-Conlin, Stacy, Todd Elder, and Brian Moore, 2011. “Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors.” Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming.
  • Elder, Todd, John Goddeeris, and Steven Haider, 2011. “A Deadly Disparity: A Unified Assessment of the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 11(1) (Contributions): Article 33.
  • Elder, Todd, 2010. “The Importance of Relative Standards in ADHD Diagnoses: Evidence Based on a Child’s Date of Birth,” Journal of Health Economics, 29(5): 641-656.
  • Dickert-Conlin, Stacy, and Todd Elder, 2010. “Suburban Legend: School Cutoff Dates and the Timing of Births,” Economics of Education Review, 29(5): 826-841.
  • Elder, Todd, John Goddeeris, and Steven Haider, 2010. “Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions,” Labour Economics, 17(1): 284-290.

Please see the faculty member's web site for a copy of the paper in pdf format.

  • Elder, Todd, 2011. “The Predictive Validity of Subjective Mortality Expectations: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” Under review.
  • Elder, Todd, John Goddeeris, and Steven Haider, 2011. “Isolating the Role of Individual Covariates in Reweighting Estimation.”
  • Altonji, Joseph, Timothy Conley, Todd Elder, and Christopher Taber, 2010. “Methods for Using Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables.”
  • Elder, Todd, and Elizabeth Powers, 2011. “A Longitudinal Analysis of Entries and Exits of the Low-Income Elderly to and from the Supplemental Security Income Program.”

 
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