Yuhui Zheng

Harvard University

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Health Economics

The Effect of Education on Health: Cross-Country Evidence (with Raquel Fonseca) (2011)

This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. It combines...

Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight (with Dana P. Goldman and Darius N. Lakdawalla), Economic Aspects of Obesity (2011)

The Fiscal Consequences of Trends in Population Health (with Dana Goldman, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Darius Lakdawalla, Igor Vaynman, and Adam Gailey), National Tax Journal (2010)

International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences (with Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, and Adam Gailey), NBER Working Papers: 15235 (2009)

The Benefits of Risk Factor Prevention in Americans Aged 51 Years and Older (with Dana P. Goldman, Federico Girosi, Pierre-Carl Michaud, S. Jay Olshansky, David Cutler, and John W. Rowe), American Journal of Public Health (2009)

Objectives. We assessed the potential health and economic benefits of reducing common risk factors in...

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health (with Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, and Adam Gailey), NBER Working Papers: 15231 (2009)

Pharmacy Benefit Caps And the Chronically Ill (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman, and Pinar Karaca-Mandic), Health Affairs (2007)

In this paper we examine medication use among retirees with employersponsored drug coverage both with...

Prescription Drug Cost Sharing (with Dana P. Goldman and Geoffrey F. Joyce), Journal of the American Medical Association (2007)

Context: Prescription drugs are instrumental to managing and preventing chronic disease. Recent changes in US...

Health Policy

Neighborhood Design and Walking Trips in Ten U.S. Metropolitan Areas (with Rob Boer, Adrian Overton, Gregory K. Ridgeway, and Debra A. Cohen), American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2007)

Despite substantial evidence for neighborhood characteristics correlating with walking, so far there has been limited...

Economics of Ageing

Differences in Health between Americans and Western Europeans: Effects on Longevity and Public Finance (with Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Adam Gailey), Social Science and Medicine (2011)

Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society (with S. Jay Olshansky, Dana P. Goldman, and John W. Rowe), The Milbank Quarterly (2009)

Context: The aging of the baby boom generation, the extension of life, and progressive increases...