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Office: 424 RBC
Phone: 610-758-3682
Fax: 610-758-4677
Email: sts204@lehigh.edu

Courses Taught

Stephen Snyder joined the Lehigh faculty in 2004 after receiving a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland and completing a fellowship in Pharmacoeconomics. He began to study economics after a career as a quality assurance engineer and hospital administrator. His research interests are centered on the relationships between economic behavior and health. Specific questions he has investigated include: Do moderate changes in income have mortality consequences for older Americans? Did the 1918 Influenza epidemic raise later-life mortality rates for children in utero during the epidemic? Do residents of poor neighborhoods gain access to new drugs more slowly than residents of wealthier neighborhoods after controlling for insurance status? If pressed for a simple answer to each question his responses would be, "no," "no," and "yes."

Research Interests

Working Papers

  • "The Impact of Income On Mortality: Evidence from the Social Security Notch," forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics. An earlier version is available as NBER working paper # 9197 (joint with William Evans).
  • " Economic Disparities in Treatment Costs Among Ambulatory Medicaid Cancer Patients", Journal of the National Medical Association, December 2004 (joint with C. Daniel Mullins et al.)

Presentations

  • "Pets, People and Demand for Etodolac in the United States of America", International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research European Meeting, forthcoming (joint with Adam Rutkowski and Krista Jamieson).
  • "Another Sort of Intergenerational Transfer? Influenza and the Fetal Origins Hypothesis", Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting, November 2004.
  • "Income Disparity in Diffusion of Oral Diabetes Therapy 1999-2001," with C. Daniel Mullins and Woodrow Proveaux, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research International Meeting, May 2003.
  • "Use of Gastro-Protective Drug Therapy by Those Taking Cox-2 Selective NSAIDS," with C. Daniel Mullins and Winston Wong, Drug Information Association Annual Meeting, June 2003.

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