NBER Profile: John Cawley.

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John Cawley is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Health Economics and Health Care, and a Professor in the Departments of Policy Analysis and Management, and Economics, at Cornell University. He co-directs Cornell's Institute on Health Economics, Health Behaviors and Disparities.

Cawley's research concerns the economics of risky health behaviors, with a focus on the economic causes and consequences of obesity and economic approaches to obesity prevention and treatment. He serves on the editorial board of Health Economics, is the former co-editor-in-chief of Economics & Human Biology, and edited the Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity.

Cawley received his A.B. in Economics...