SETH A. SEABURY
University of Southern California
USC Schaeffer Center
635 Downey Way
VPD Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90089-3333
[email protected]
Office: 213-821-8190
Mobile: 310-623-2025
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
B.A.
Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY. 2002.
Economics, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH. 1996.
APPOINTMENTS
2013-present
2013-present
2013-present
2013-present
2009-present
2003-2013
2012-2013
2012-2013
2006-2012
2009-2012
2002-2006
1999-2002
Associate Professor of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor of Research, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health
Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor of Research, Titus Family Department of Clinical and
Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, School of Pharmacy, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles
Adjunct Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
Principal Consultant and Scientific Advisor, Precision Health Economics,
Los Angeles, California
Professor of Economics, Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica,
California.
Associate Director, RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace
Senior Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
Visiting Fellow, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and
Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Associate Economist, RAND, Santa Monica, California.
Consultant, RAND, Santa Monica, California.
PUBLICATIONS
In Journals
1. Seabury, Seth A., Eric Helland and Anupam B. Jena. “Medical Malpractice Reform:
Noneconomic Damages Caps Reduced Payments 15 Percent, With Varied Effects By
Specialty.” Health Affairs. 33(11): 2048-2056. 2014.
2. Frakes, Michael D., Frank, Matthew B. and Seth A. Seabury. “Do Physicians Respond to
Liability Standards?” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. In Press, 2014.
3. Helland, Eric and Seth A. Seabury, “Tort Reform and Physician Labor Supply: A Review of
the Evidence.” International Review of Law and Economics. In Press, 2014.
4. Seabury, Seth A., Darius N. Lakdawalla, Deborah Walter, John Hayes, Thomas Gustafson,
Anshu Shrestha, and Dana P. Goldman. “Patient Outcomes and Cost Effects of Medicaid
Formulary Restrictions on Antidepressants.” Forum for Health Economics and Policy.
DOI: 10.1515/fhep-2014-0016. November 2014.
5. Seabury, Seth A., Scherer, Ethan, O’Leary, Paul, Ozonoff, Al. and Leslie I. Boden, “Using
Linked Federal and State Data to Study the Adequacy of Workers’ Compensation Benefits.”
American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 57(10): 1165-1173. 2014.
6. Seabury, Seth A., Charu N. Gupta, Tomas J. Philipson, and Laura E. Henkhaus.
"Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Medication Adherence: A Review of Research
Priorities." Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. 20(8): 775-83. 2014.
7. Mangalmurti, Sandeep, Seabury, Seth A., Chandra, Amitabh, Lakdawalla, Darius, Oetgen,
William J. and Anupam B. Jena, Medical Professional Liability Risk among U.S.
Cardiologists, American Heart Journal, 167(5): 690-696. 2014.
8. Seabury, Seth A., Goldman, Dana P., Kalsekar, Iftekhar, Sheenan, John J., Laubmeier,
Kimberly, and Darius N. Lakdawalla, “Formulary Restrictions on Atypical Antipsychotics:
Impact on Costs for Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder in Medicaid,”
American Journal of Managed Care. 20(2): e52-e60. 2014.
9. Seabury, Seth A., Neuhauser, Frank and John Mendeloff, “Is the Risk of Occupational
Injuries Greater at New Firms?” Industrial Relations. 53(1): 28-45. 2014.
10. Seabury, Seth A., Dana Goldman and Darius Lakdawalla, “The Role of Specialty Drugs in
Private Sector Healthcare Spending.” American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits. 5: sp23-sp28.
2013.
11. Seabury, Seth A., Anupam Jena and Amitabh Chandra. “Trends in the Earnings of Male and
Female Health Care Professionals in the United States, 1987 to 2010.” JAMA Internal
Medicine. 173(18):1748-1750. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.8519. 2013.
12. Jena, Anupam B., Amitabh Chandra, and Seth A. Seabury. "Malpractice Risk Among US
Pediatricians." Pediatrics, 131(6): 1-7. 2013.
13. Seabury, Seth A. Neuhauser, Frank and Teryl Nuckols, “American Medical Association
Impairment Ratings and Earnings Losses Due to Disability.” Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine, 55(3): 286-291. 2013.
14. Jena, Anupam B., Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Lesley Weaver and Seth A. Seabury. “Predicting
new diagnoses of human immunodeficiency virus infection using internet search engine
data.” Clinical Infectious Diseases, 56 (9): 1352-1353. 2013
15. Seabury, Seth A., Amitabh Chandra, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Anupam Jena. “On Average,
Physicians Spend Nearly 11 Percent of Their 40-Year Careers with an Open, Unresolved
Malpractice Claim.” Health Affairs. 32(1): 111-119. 2013.
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16. Seabury, Seth A., “Jury Verdicts, Settlement Behavior and Expected Trial Outcomes,”
International Review of Law and Economics. 30(2): 15-22. 2013.
17. Seabury Seth A., Anupam Jena and Amitabh Chandra “Trends in the earnings of health care
professionals in the United States, 1987-2010.” Journal of the American Medical
Association. 308(20): 2083-5. 2012.
18. Lakdawalla, Darius N. and Seth A. Seabury, “The welfare effects of medical malpractice
liability.” International Review of Law and Economics. 32(4): 356-369. 2012.
19. O'Leary, Paul, Leslie I. Boden, Seth A. Seabury, Al Ozonoff, and Ethan Scherer, “Workplace
Injuries and the Take-up of Social Security Disability Benefits,” Social Security Bulletin.
72(3): 1-18. 2012.
20. Seabury, Seth A., Christopher McLaren, Robert T. Reville, Frank Neuhauser and John
Mendeloff, “Workers’ Compensation Experience Rating and Return to Work,” Policy and
Practice in Health and Safety. 10(1):69-87. 2012.
21. Jena, Anupam B., Amitabh Chandra, Darius Lakdawalla, and Seth Seabury. "Outcomes of
medical malpractice litigation against US physicians." Archives of Internal Medicine 172, no.
11 (2012): 892-894.
22. Seabury Seth A., Dana P. Goldman, J. Ross Maclean, John R. Penrod and Darius
Lakdawalla. “Patients value metastatic cancer therapy more highly than is typically shown
through traditional estimates.” Health Affairs, 31(4): 691-9. 2012.
23. Seabury, Seth A., Amitabh Chandra, Darius Lakdawalla, and Anupam Jena. “Defense Costs
of Medical Malpractice Claims”. New England Journal of Medicine. 2012; 366(14):13541356.
24. Jena, Anupam, Seabury, Seth A., Lakdawalla, Darius and Amitabh Chandra, “Malpractice
Risk According to Physician Specialty.” New England Journal of Medicine, 365(7): 629-636.
2011.
25. Philipson, Tomas, Seabury, Seth A., Lockwood, Lee, Goldman, Dana and Darius
Lakdawalla. “Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets.”
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. 325-355. Spring, 2010.
26. Bhattacharya, Jayanta, Neuhauser, Frank, Reville, Robert T. and Seth A. Seabury,
“Evaluating Permanent Disability Ratings Using Empirical Data on Earnings Losses.”
Journal of Risk and Insurance, 77(1): 231-260. 2009.
27. Lakdawalla, Darius, Reville, Robert T., and Seth A. Seabury, “How Does Health Insurance
Affect Workers’ Compensation Filing?” Economic Inquiry, 45(2). 2007.
28. Seabury, Seth A., Reville, Robert T., and Frank Neuhauser, “Physician Shopping in
Workers’ Compensation: Evidence from California,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies,
3(1). 2006.
29. Chandra, Amitabh, Nundy, Shantanu and Seth A. Seabury, “The Growth of Physician
Medical Malpractice Payments: Evidence From the National Practitioner Databank,” Health
Affairs. 2005, 06/01/05.
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30. Seabury, Seth A., Nicholas M. Pace and Robert T. Reville, “Forty Years of Civil Jury
Verdicts,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 1(1). 2004.
In Books and Conference Volumes
1. Helland, Eric and Seth A. Seabury, “Contingent Fee Contracts in Litigation: A Survey and
Assessment.” In Arlen, Jennifer, ed. Research Handbook on the Economic Analysis of Torts.
Edward Elgar Publishing Co. 2013.
2. Seabury, Seth. A. “Linking Workers’ Compensation Data and Earnings Data to Estimate the
Economic Consequences of Workplace Injuries.” Use of Workers’ Compensation Data for
Occupational Safety and Health: Proceedings from June 2012 Workshop; National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); Cincinnati, OH; DF Utterback and TM
Schnorr, eds.; DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2013-147; May 2013.
3. Seabury, Seth A., Darius Lakdawalla and Robert T. Reville, “The Economics of Integrating
Injury and Illness Prevention and Health Promotion Programs,” in Research Compendium:
The NIOSH Total Worker Health TM Program: Seminal Research Papers 2012. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH)
Publication No. 2012-146. May 2012.
4. Gailey, Adam and Seth A. Seabury, “The Impact of Employment Protection on Workers
Disabled by Workplace Injuries,” in Daniel Kessler, ed. Regulation versus Litigation.
University of Chicago Press. 2011.
5. Burton, John, Seth A. Seabury, Michael McGeary and Robert T. Reville. “The Relationship
Between Impairments and Earnings Losses in Multicondition Studies.” In Appendix C,
McGeary, Michael, Ford, MorganA., McCutchen, Susan R. and David K. Barnes, eds., A
21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits. Washington DC: The
National Academies Press. 2007.
6. Dixon, Lloyd, Susan M. Gates, Kanika Kapur, Seth A. Seabury, Eric Talley “The Impact of
Regulation and Litigation on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: An Overview.” in Gates,
Susan M. and Kristin Leuschner, eds. In the Name of Entrepreneurship? The Logic and
Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business. Santa Monica, CA: Rand
Corporation, MG-663-EMKF. 2007.
7. Seabury, Seth A., Robert T. Reville, Hilary J. Rhodes and Leslie I. Boden, “How Can
Behavioral Economics Inform Research on Workplace Injuries?” in Workplace Injuries and
Diseases: Prevention and Compensation. Essays in Honor of Terry Thomason, Karen
Roberts, John F. Burton, Jr., and Matt Bodah, eds. Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute
for Employment Research. 2005.
Published Reports
1. Pines, Jesse M., Pilkington, William F. and Seth A. Seabury, “Value-Based Models for
Sustaining Emergency Preparedness Capacity and Capability in the United States.”
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Commissioned Paper for the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness, Institute of
Medicine. 2014.
2. Seabury, Seth A., and Ethan Scherer. “Identifying Permanently Disabled Workers with
Disproportionate Earnings Losses for Supplemental Payments.” Santa Monica, CA: RAND,
RR-425-CHSWC. 2014.
3. Seabury, Seth A., Reville, Robert T., Williamson, Stephanie, McLaren, Christopher F.,
Gailey, Adam H., Wilke, Elizabeth and Frank W. Neuhauser. “Workers’ Compensation
Reform and Return to Work: The California Experience.” Santa Monica, CA: RAND, MG1035-CHSWC. 2011.
4. Seabury, Seth A. and Christopher McLaren. “The Frequency, Severity and Economic
Consequences of Musculoskeletal Injuries to Firefighters in California.” Santa Monica, CA:
RAND, MG-1018-CHSWC. 2010.
5. Latourette, Tom, Loughran, David, and Seth A. Seabury. “Occupational Safety and Health
for Public Safety Employees: Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Safety
Employees.” Santa Monica, CA: RAND MG-792-CHSWC/NIOSH. 2008.
6. Loughran, David and Seth A. Seabury. “Estimating the Accident Risk of Older Drivers,”
Santa Monica, CA: RAND, TR-450-ICJ. 2007.
7. Loughran, David, Seth A. Seabury and Laura Zakaras. “Regulating Older Drivers: Are New
Policies Needed?” Santa Monica, CA: RAND, OP-189-ICJ. 2007.
8. Dixon, Lloyd, Clancy, Noreen and Seth A. Seabury. “The National Flood Insurance
Program: Estimates of Take-Up Rates and their Policy Implications,” Santa Monica, CA:
RAND, TR-300-FEMA. 2006.
9. Reville, Robert T., Seabury, Seth A., Frank Neuhauser, John F. Burton, Jr. and Michael
Greenberg. “An Evaluation of California’s Permanent Disability Rating System,” Santa
Monica, CA: RAND, MG-258-ICJ. 2005.
10. Seabury, Seth A., Reville, Robert T., and Frank Neuhauser, “Data for Adjusting Disability
Ratings to Reflect Diminished Future Earnings and Capacity in Compliance with SB 899.”
Santa Monica, CA: RAND, WR-214-ICJ. December 2004.
11. Farley, Donna O., Michael Greenberg, Christopher Nelson and Seth A. Seabury,
“Assessment of 24-Hour Care Options for California,” Santa Monica, CA: RAND, WR-163ICJ. 2004.
12. Reville, Robert T., Seabury, Seth A. and Frank Neuhauser, “Evaluation of California’s
Permanent Disability Rating Schedule: Interim Report,” Santa Monica, CA: RAND, DB443-ICJ. December 2003.
13. Reville, Robert T., Polich, Suzanne, Seabury, Seth A. and Elizabeth Giddens, “Permanent
Disability at Private, Self-Insured Firms: A Study of Earnings Loss, Replacement, and
Return to Work for Workers’ Compensation,” Santa Monica, CA: RAND, MR-1268-ICJ.
2001.
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Published Correspondence
1. Seabury, Seth A., Amitabh Chandra, and Anupam B. Jena. “Gender Income Disparities Can
Be Explained by Alternative Factors—Reply.” JAMA Internal Medicine 174, no. 5 (2014):
822-823.
2. Seabury, Seth A. Neuhauser, Frank and Teryl Nuckols, “American Medical Association
Impairment Ratings and Earnings Losses Due to Disability.” AMA Guides Newsletter.
March/April 2013. 1-6.
3. Chandra, Amitabh, Anupam B. Jena and Seth A. Seabury, “Defensive Medicine May Be
Costlier Than It Seems,” Wall Street Journal (US Edition). February 8, 2013; page A13.
4. Seabury, Seth A., Darius Lakdawalla and Dana Goldman, “Patients’ Willingness To Pay:
The Authors Reply,” Health Affairs. 31(8): 1909. August 2012.
5. Glorian Sorensen, Ron Z. Goetzel, Seth A. Seabury, Anita L. Schill, L. Casey Chosewood,
“The Research Compendium: The NIOSH Total Worker Health™ Program: Seminal
Research Papers 2012,”CDC-NIOSH Science Blog, June 4, 2012.
6. Jena AB, Seabury S, Chandra A. “Malpractice risk according to physician specialty: Author
Reply,” New England Journal of Medicine 365(20), pp. 1939-1940. 2011.
Thesis
1. Seabury, Seth A., “Three Essays on Workers’ Compensation” Thesis (Ph.D.)—Columbia
University in the City of New York, Department of Economics, May 2002.
Completed Papers
Helland, Eric, Lakdawalla, Darius, Malani, Anup and Seth A. Seabury. “Unintended
Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market.” NBER
Working Paper No. 20005. 2014.
Seabury, Seth A., “Does Malpractice Liability Reform Attract High Risk Doctors?” 2013.
Neuhauser, Frank, Seth A. Seabury and John Mendeloff, “The Impact of Experience Rating on
Small Employers.” 2012.
Reville, Robert T. and Seth A. Seabury, “The Impact of Unearned Income on Employment and
Earnings of the Disabled.” 2010.
McLaren, Christopher, Reville, Robert T. and Seth A. Seabury, “How Effective are Employer
Return to Work Programs?” 2010.
Seabury, Seth A. and Eric Talley, “Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal
Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence,” USC CLEO Research Paper C03-8. 2003.
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CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS AND TESTIMONY
2013
“Examining the Labor Department’s Proposed Changes to the FECA Program.”
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on
Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives. July 10, 2013.
“Regulating Senior Drivers: Are New Policies Needed?” RAND
Congressional Staff Briefing. October 25, 2007.
2007
TEACHING
University of Southern California
2013
Health Economics I (Ph.D.)
Pardee RAND Graduate School
2010-2013
2006-2009
2003
Microeconomics II (Ph.D.)
Economics of Law and Legal Policy (Ph.D.)
Civil Justice Workshop: Product Liability and Punitive Damages (Ph.D.)
Guest Lectures
2013
2010
2009
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Southern California, Grand
Rounds (M.D.)
University of Southern California, Health Economics: Medical Malpractice (M.A.)
Occidental College, Health Economics, Medical Malpractice (Undergraduate)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor—International Review of Law and Economics
Professional Memberships (past and present)—American Economic Association, International
Health Economics Association, American Law and Economics Association, American Risk
and Insurance Association
Council Memberships (past and present)—NASI Workers’ Compensation Data Panel, National
Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Public Safety Council
Referee—Journal of Health Economics, American Economic Journal: Policy, Health Services
Research, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Industrial
Medicine, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Inquiry,
Health Affairs, Preventive Medicine, Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, Health
Economics, European Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal
of Safety Research, American Journal of Managed Care
HONORS AND AWARDS
2011—Invited, National Academy of Social Insurance
2007—Distinguished Scholar Award, Institute for Civil Justice
2001-2002—Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Fellowship, Columbia
University
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1999-2001—Bradley Fellowship, Columbia University
1997-1999—President’s Fellowship, Columbia University
1996—Graduated with Highest Honors, Kenyon College
1996—Kenyon College Economics Prize
SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“The Impact of National Medical Liability Standards on Local Access to Physician Services.” 5th
Biennial Conference of ASHEcon. Univsersity of Southern California, Los Angeles. 2014.
“Medication Adherence as a Measure of Healthcare Quality.” 5th Biennial Conference of
ASHEcon. Univsersity of Southern California, Los Angeles. 2014.
“Medicaid Formulary Restrictions and Outcomes for Patients with Mental Illness.” 5th Biennial
Conference of ASHEcon. Univsersity of Southern California, Los Angeles. 2014.
“Priorities in Adherence Research,” ISPOR 18th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. 2014.
“Workers’ Compensation Experience Rating and Return to Work,” Symposium on Workplace
Injury Prevention through Financial Incentives.” Institute for Work and Health. Toronto,
Canada. Fall 2012.
“Linking Workers’ Compensation Data and Earnings Data to Estimate the Economic
Consequences of Workplace Injuries.” NIOSH Workshop: Use of Workers’ Compensation
Data for Occupational Safety and Health. Summer, 2012.
“Tort Liability and the Market for Prescription Drugs” Empirical Health Law Conference,
Cornell University, Spring 2012.
“Impairment Ratings and Earnings Losses from Disability,” National Occupational Injury
Research Symposium (NOIRS) and Workers’ Compensation Research Group, Fall 2011.
“Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets.” IHEA, Toronto. Summer
2011.
“Does Malpractice Liability Reform Attract High Risk Doctors?” University of California
Riverside, Fall 2010.
“The Impact of Unearned Income on the Labor Supply and Earnings of the Disabled.” Workers’
Compensation Research Group. Fall 2010.
“Tort Liability and the Market for Prescription Drugs” AHEC 2010, Lehigh, PA, Fall 2010.
“Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets.” University of Nevada, Las
Vegas. Spring 2010.
“The Consequences of Employment Protection for Workers Disabled by Workplace Injury.”
NBER Conference on Regulation vs. Litigation. September 2009.
“Does Malpractice Liability Reform Attract High Risk Doctors?” American Law and Economics
Association, University of California at San Diego, Spring 2009.
“Case Selection after the Trial: A Study of Post-Trial Settlement and Appeal.” Searle Center
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Northwestern University, October 2008.
“Does Malpractice Liability Reform Attract High Risk Doctors?” American Society of Health
Economics, Duke University, June 2008.
“Inferring Beliefs about Potential Trial Outcomes from Selected Samples in Civil Litigation,”
American Law and Economics Association, Columbia Law School, Spring 2008.
“How Risky are Older Drivers?” American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New
Orleans, January 2008.
“Inferring Beliefs about Potential Trial Outcomes from Selected Samples in Civil Litigation,”
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, New York University Law School, November 2007.
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“The Impact of Employer Programs to Promote Employment of Disabled Workers,” IAIABC,
Phoenix, Arizona, October 2007.
“Malpractice Liability and Medical Costs.” International Health Economics Association,
Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2007.
SELECTED GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
2014-2016
Title: Racial Disparities in the Economic Outcomes of Work-Related Disabilities
Sponsor: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
Amount: $404,129 (Principal Investigator)
2013-2018
Title: Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury
II (TRACK-TBI II)
Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Amount: $770,633 (Co-Investigator)
2013-2016
Title: Return to Work and Wage Loss Studies
Sponsor: California Department of Industrial Relations
Amount: $700,000 (Principal Investigator)
2010-2013
Title: Disability Evaluation and Medical Treatment in the California Workers’
Compensation System
Sponsor: California Department of Industrial Relations
Amount: $1.2 million (Co-Principal Investigator)
2010-2011
Title:Evaluating the Deterrent Effect of OSHA and WHD Regulations
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Labor
Amount: $250,000 (Co-Principal Investigator)
2009-2013
Title:Effect of Medical Malpractice on Costs and Technical Adoption
Sponsor: National Institute on Aging
Amount: $1.3 million (Co-Investigator)
2008-2010
Title:Firefighter Musculoskeletal Disorders
Sponsor: California Department of Industrial Relations
Amount: $125,000 (Principal Investigator)
2005-2008
Title:Evaluation of Workplace Safety and Injury Prevention Methods for Public
Safety Employees
Sponsor: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Amount: $250,000 (Principal Investigator)
2005-2008
Title:Disability Retirement among Public Safety Employees in California
Sponsor: California Department of Industrial Relations
Amount: $250,000 (Principal Investigator)
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2005-2009
Title:Evaluating the Return to Work of Disabled Workers in California
Sponsor: California Department of Industrial Relations
Amount: $900,000 (Co-Principal Investigator)
Last updated: November 2014
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