David Molitor
Biography
David Molitor is an Associate Professor and Hewitt Faculty Fellow in the Department of Finance at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is Director of Gies Health Initiatives at Gies College of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Molitor’s research explores how location and the environment shape health and health care delivery in the United States. He is a Principal Investigator of the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study, a large-scale field experiment of workplace wellness conducted at the University of Illinois. Molitor was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. from the University of Minnesota.
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Predicting Binary Outcomes: Application to Health
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Learn the differences between logit and linear probability models, and apply them to real-world data by estimating a model that predicts whether an individual has high blood pressure.
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Measuring Productivity: An Application of Principal Components Analysis
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This study uses Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to assess productivity within a workplace wellness program.
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Assessing Health Beliefs and Behaviors
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Insights from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
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Teenage Driving and Mortality
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While there is little doubt that driving increases mortality risk, estimating the magnitude of this causal effect is not straightforward.
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Does Workplace Wellness Work?
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One widely touted solution to the rise of chronic disease is increased use of workplace wellness programs, but do they actually work?
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