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Tim Halliday is an empirical microeconomist who works at the intersection of health and labour economics. He served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 2016 to 2020. He is also a research fellow at UHERO in Honolulu and the IZA in Bonn. His research primarily focuses on transmissions of economic status across generations, the socioeconomic determinants of health capital, the effects of health insurance on medical consumption for poorer populations, and the health impacts of air pollution. His work has been published in the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics and has been featured in numerous media outlets including Politico and USA Today. He has also contributed as an opinion writer to the Wall Street Journal.

He earned his PhD in Economics from Princeton.