Philip DeCicca

Teaching: Econ 2A03E and ECON 3F03E - Fall 2009              

Curriculum Vitae (long)
Curriculum Vitae (short)

Office Hours: By Appointment (Winter 2009)

Research Interests: Health Economics, Labour Economics, Public Economics

Published Papers:

Chernew, Michael, DeCicca, Philip and Robert Town (2008). "Managed care and Medicare expenditures", Journal of Health Economics, 27(6): 1451-1461.

Charles, Kerwin and Philip DeCicca (2008). "Local labour market fluctuations and health: Is there a connection and for whom?", Journal of Health Economics, 27(6): 1332-1350.

DeCicca, Philip and Logan McLeod (2008). "Cigarette taxes and older adult smoking: Evidence from recent large tax increases", Journal of Health Economics, 27(4): 918-929.

DeCicca, Philip, Kenkel, Donald S., and Alan D. Mathios (2008). "Cigarette taxes and the transition from youth to adult smoking: Smoking initiation, cessation and participation", Journal of Health Economics, 27(4): 904-917.

DeCicca, Philip, Kenkel, Donald S., Mathios, Alan D. and Justine Shin (2008) "Youth smoking, cigarette prices and anti-smoking sentiment", Health Economics, 17(6): 733-749.

Charles, Kerwin K. and Philip DeCicca (2007). "Hours flexibility and retirement, Economic Inquiry, 45(2): 251-267.

DeCicca, Philip (2007). "Does Full-Day Kindergarten Matter?  Evidence From the First Two Years of Schooling", Economics of Education Review, 26(1): 67-82.

DeCicca, Philip, Kenkel, Donald S. and Alan Mathios (2005).  "The fires aren't out yet:  Higher taxes and young adult smoking", In Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, B. Lindgren and M. Grossman, eds., Volume 16, 293-312.

DeCicca, Philip, Kenkel, Donald S. and Alan Mathios (2002). "Putting Out the Fires:  Will Higher Taxes Reduce the Onset of Youth Smoking?", Journal of Political Economy, 110(1): 144-169.  (Reprinted in "Economics of Health Behaviors", International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Ltd., 2007).

Lillard, Dean R. and Philip DeCicca (2001). "Higher Standards, More Dropouts?  Evidence Within and Across Time", Economics of Education Review, 20(5): 459-473.

DeCicca, Philip, Kenkel, Donald S. and Alan D. Mathios (2000). "Racial Differences in the Determinants of Smoking Onset", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 21(2-3): 311-340.

Working Papers:

DeCicca, Philip (2009). "Health insurance availability and entrepreneurship", Working paper.

DeCicca, Philip, Kenkel, Donald S. and Feng Liu (2008). "Excise tax avoidance: The case of state cigarette taxes", Working paper.

DeCicca, Philip (2008). "Are obese smokers an unintended consequence of higher cigarette taxes?", Working paper.

DeCicca, Philip and Justin Smith (2008). " Can higher cigarette taxes still improve birth outcomes? ", Working paper.