Andrew Healy

Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 4229

One LMU Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90045

Office: (310) 338-5956      Fax: (310) 338-1950

E-mail: ahealy@lmu.edu

 

Academic Employment

 

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, Assistant Professor of Economics

            August 2005 – Present.

 

Other Positions

 

World Bank, International Consultant (April 2002-May 2004)

 

 

Education

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (August 2005)

            Ph.D. in Economics

 

Yale University, New Haven, CT (May 1998)

            B.S. in Applied Mathematics, B.A. in Political Science

            Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

 

 

Research

 

1. Voting Behavior

 

Healy, Andrew and Neil Malhotra. “Preferring a Pound of Cure to an Ounce of Prevention:

Voting, Natural Disasters, and Government Response”

 

Healy, Andrew. “Do Voters Punish Politicians for Bad Luck? The Uneducated Ones Do”

 

Cole, Shawn, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker. “Do Voters Appreciate Responsive

Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief”

 

2. Experimental and Behavioral Economics

 

Healy, Andrew. “How Effectively Do People Learn from a Variety of Different Opinions?”

(supported by Russell Sage)

 

 

Healy, Andrew. “Do Firms Have Short Memories? Evidence from Major League Baseball”

(forthcoming, Journal of Sports Economics)

 

3. Other published papers

 

Healy, Andrew and Jitsuchon, Somchai (2007). “Finding the Poor in Thailand,” Journal of Asian

Economics, 18(5): 739-59.

 

Wantchekon, Leonard and Healy, Andrew (1999). “The ‘Game’ of Torture,” Journal of Conflict

Resolution, 43(5): 596- 609.

 

4. Research in progress

 

"Only the Strong Survive: The Predictable Succes of Young Governors" (with Neil Malhotra)

 

"Has McCain-Feingold Reduced the Influence of Money in Politics? Evidence from Stock Price

Changes for Firms of Different Sizes" (with Gena Gammie)

 

"Cost Asymmetry and Incomplete Information in the Volunteer's Dilemma" (with Jennifer

Pate, supported by Russell Sage)

 

"Competition, Teams, and Gender" (with Jennifer Pate)

 

 

Awards, Honors, and Grants

 

Loyola Marymount Economics Teacher of the Year, 2007

Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant in Behavioral Economics, 2003-2004

George and Obie Shultz Fund award, 2003-2004

National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellow, 1999-2002

 

 

Professional Activities

 

Teaching: Introductory statistics, economic development, econometrics

 

Referee: Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Development Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics