Heather Royer

Heather Royer is a health economist with an eye toward causal identification, bringing rigorous evidence to bear on how education, health care access, and incentives shape health and reproductive outcomes. Her work spans several areas: the impact of education and other socioeconomic factors on health and fertility; the effect of incentives to influence health behaviors such as exercise and healthy eating using randomized controlled trials; the role of health care access in shaping reproductive outcomes; and the geographic determinants of Cesarean delivery. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.