Peer-Reviewed Publications
"The Cost of Callbacks: Return Visits for Diagnostic Imaging Discrepancies in a Pediatric Emergency Department," Emergency Radiology, 26(4), August 2019, 381-389 (with Danica Liberman).
“Cost-Effectiveness of Watchful Waiting in Acute Otitis Media”, Pediatrics, 139(4), April 2017, e20163086 (with Di Sun and Danica B. Liberman).
“War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and the World War II GI Bill”, Demography, 52(5), October 2015, 1431-1461 (with Matthew Larsen, Jeremy Moulton, Marianne Page, and Ankur Patel).
“Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction: Impact of Alternative Approaches to Quality-of-Life Adjustment on Cost Effectiveness Analysis,” Medical Care, 46(9), September 2008, 946-953 (with Joy Melnikow, Stephen Birch, Christina Slee, L. Jay Helms, and Miriam Kuppermann).
Book Chapters and Other Publications
“The Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Overseas Military Operations,” in C. Castro & E. Weiss (Eds.), American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, Economic Issues and Trends. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. November 2018.
“Lifetime Compensation for Military Service,” in C. Castro & E. Weiss (Eds.), American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, Economic Issues and Trends. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. November 2018.
Study Guide to accompany Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy, by B. Modjtahedi, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Study Guide to accompany Microeconomics: Theory and Policy, by B. Modjtahedi, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Working papers
“The Vietnam War, College Deferments, and Men’s Marital Prospects”
Abstract: In this paper I show that a one-year increase in a man’s education leads to a one-year increase in his wife’s education, and that mistakenly treating Vietnam-era military service as an exogenous regressor substantially impacts this estimate. I obtain causal estimates with an instrumental variables approach that takes advantage of variation in educational incentives created by the Vietnam draft. My results provide empirical evidence in favor of Becker’s (1973) hypothesis of positive assortative mating on education, highlight an mechanism through which the Vietnam draft impacted both veterans and non-veterans, and are relevant to policy discussions concerning education and veteran compensation programs such as the G.I. Bill.
“The Effects of Education and Military Service on Long-Term Health Outcomes”
Abstract: This paper explores the effects of college education and Vietnam-era military service on long-term health using an instrumental variables approach based on educational incentives generated by the Vietnam draft. While I find that additional education positively impacts health, the results suggest that part of the observed positive correlation between education and health may be attributable to omitted variables. I also show that Vietnam-era military service led to declines in health, and that the well-documented disparities between the health outcomes of Vietnam veterans and their peers reflect a negative causal impact of military service in this era and not simply unobserved differences between the two groups. At least some of these negative health effects are persistent, as they can still be observed decades later.
"The Cost of Callbacks: Return Visits for Diagnostic Imaging Discrepancies in a Pediatric Emergency Department," Emergency Radiology, 26(4), August 2019, 381-389 (with Danica Liberman).
“Cost-Effectiveness of Watchful Waiting in Acute Otitis Media”, Pediatrics, 139(4), April 2017, e20163086 (with Di Sun and Danica B. Liberman).
“War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and the World War II GI Bill”, Demography, 52(5), October 2015, 1431-1461 (with Matthew Larsen, Jeremy Moulton, Marianne Page, and Ankur Patel).
“Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction: Impact of Alternative Approaches to Quality-of-Life Adjustment on Cost Effectiveness Analysis,” Medical Care, 46(9), September 2008, 946-953 (with Joy Melnikow, Stephen Birch, Christina Slee, L. Jay Helms, and Miriam Kuppermann).
Book Chapters and Other Publications
“The Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Overseas Military Operations,” in C. Castro & E. Weiss (Eds.), American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, Economic Issues and Trends. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. November 2018.
“Lifetime Compensation for Military Service,” in C. Castro & E. Weiss (Eds.), American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, Economic Issues and Trends. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. November 2018.
Study Guide to accompany Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy, by B. Modjtahedi, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Study Guide to accompany Microeconomics: Theory and Policy, by B. Modjtahedi, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Working papers
“The Vietnam War, College Deferments, and Men’s Marital Prospects”
Abstract: In this paper I show that a one-year increase in a man’s education leads to a one-year increase in his wife’s education, and that mistakenly treating Vietnam-era military service as an exogenous regressor substantially impacts this estimate. I obtain causal estimates with an instrumental variables approach that takes advantage of variation in educational incentives created by the Vietnam draft. My results provide empirical evidence in favor of Becker’s (1973) hypothesis of positive assortative mating on education, highlight an mechanism through which the Vietnam draft impacted both veterans and non-veterans, and are relevant to policy discussions concerning education and veteran compensation programs such as the G.I. Bill.
“The Effects of Education and Military Service on Long-Term Health Outcomes”
Abstract: This paper explores the effects of college education and Vietnam-era military service on long-term health using an instrumental variables approach based on educational incentives generated by the Vietnam draft. While I find that additional education positively impacts health, the results suggest that part of the observed positive correlation between education and health may be attributable to omitted variables. I also show that Vietnam-era military service led to declines in health, and that the well-documented disparities between the health outcomes of Vietnam veterans and their peers reflect a negative causal impact of military service in this era and not simply unobserved differences between the two groups. At least some of these negative health effects are persistent, as they can still be observed decades later.