Discipline(s):
Economics
Area(s) of Expertise:
Development Economics, Health Economics, Labor & Demographic Economics
E-Mail:
mckelvey@umd.edu
Background:
Christopher McKelvey is an economist whose work focuses on health and economic development. Much of his research examines the role of prices in influencing individuals’ health related behaviors. For example, he has investigated the impact of the Indonesian financial crisis of the late nineties on individual’s contraceptive decisions, and how prices impact the quality of food consumed by Indonesian households. Christopher is also interested in the impact of poor health on labor market outcomes. In one ongoing project, he assesses the impact of the HIV epidemic on employment, and he is a member of the Work and Iron Status Evaluation (WISE) research team, which conducted a longitudinal survey to evaluate the impact of a double-blind, randomly assigned iron supplement on health and productivity in Indonesia. During his time in the RWJ program, he plans to study the role of the timing of adolescent growth in determining adult health outcomes, such as obesity and diabetes. Christopher completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles and is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Christopher McKelvey's available publications in PubMed.
