Overview
Jeffrey Roth is a professor at the University of Florida with expertise in child health, developmental outcomes, and public health research using administrative data. His work on the Florida birth records linkage project contributed the population health and vital statistics expertise underlying the Figlio/Autor research program on early childhood outcomes.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-authored Autor, Figlio, Karbownik, Roth, and Wasserman (2019, AEJ Applied): Contributed to the study documenting that family disadvantage disproportionately widens the boy-girl gap in behavioral and educational outcomes. See Gender Gap in Educational Outcomes.
- Co-authored Figlio, Guryan, Karbownik, and Roth (2014, AER): Co-designed the Florida administrative linkage connecting birth records to school outcomes, enabling the neonatal health and cognitive development study.
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