Dr. M. Christopher Auld

Position
Contact
Credentials
PhD (Queen's)
Area of expertise
Health economics, microeconometrics
Chris Auld is an applied econometrician who studies issues in health behavior, the labor market, and education.
Interests
- Econometrics
- Health
- Labour
- Education
Courses
Links
Selected publications
- Feir, D. and Auld, M.C., forthcoming. Indian Residential Schools, Height, and Body Mass Post-1930, Canadian Journal of Economics.
- Auld, M.C.and M. Zarrabi, 2015. Long-Term Effects of Tobacco Prices Faced by Adolescents, Forum for Health Economics and Policy 18 (1): 1-24.
- McLaren, L., M. Zarrabi, D.J. Dutton, C. Auldand JCH Emery, 2012. Child care: implications for overweight/obesity in Canadian children? Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada 33(1):
- Stockwell, T., C. Auld, J. Zhao and G. Martin, 2012. Does minimum pricing reduce alcohol consumption? The experience of a Canadian province, Addiction107(5): 912-920.
- Auld, M. C. (2011) Effect of large scale social interactions on body weight, Journal of Health Economics.
- Auld, M.C. and Grootendorst, P. (2011) Challenges for causal inference in obesity research, forthcoming, Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity, J. Cawley (ed), Oxford.
- Faulkner, G.E.J., P. Grootendorst, V.H. Nguyen, T. Andreyeva, K. Arbour-Nicitopoulos, C. Auld, S.B. Cash, J. Cawley, P. Donnelly, A. Drewnowski, L. Dubé, R. Ferrence, I. Janssen, J. LaFrance, D. Lakdawalla, R. Mendelsen, L.M. Powell, W.B. Traill and F. Windmeijer, 2011. Economic instruments for obesity prevention: results of a scoping review and modified Delphi survey, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity8(1): 1.
- Auld, M.C. and Powell, L. M. (2009) Economics of food energy density and adolescent body weight, Economica 76(304):719-40.
- Powell, L.M., Auld, M.C., Chaloupka F, et al. (2007) Associations between access to food stores and adolescent body mass index. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 33(4S):S301-S307.
- Auld, M.C. (2006) Estimating behavioral response to the AIDS epidemic. Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy 5 (article 12).
- Auld, M.C. (2005) Smoking, drinking, and income. Journal of Human Resources 40(2):505-518. (Reprinted in The Economics of Health Behaviors, vol II, Cawley and Kenkel (eds), Elgar 2008.)
- Auld, M.C. (2005) Causal effect of early initiation on adolescent smoking patterns. Canadian Journal of Economics 38(3):709-34. (Harry Johnson Prize for best paper in the CJE, 2005.)
- Auld, M.C. and Grootendorst, P. (2004) An empirical analysis of milk addiction. Journal of Health Economics 23:1117-1133. (Reprinted in The Economics of Health Behaviors, vol I, Cawley and Kenkel (eds), Elgar 2008.)
- Auld, M.C. (2003) Choices, beliefs, and infectious disease dynamics. Journal of Health Economics 22:361-377.
Book chapters
- Auld, M.C. and P.V. Grootendorst, 2014. Instrumental variables: Informing policy. In Encyclopedia of Health Economics pages 61-66.