Contact Information

Department of Economics San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4485

Office: AH 4194 Phone: (619) 594-2407 Email: jsabia@mail.sdsu.edu

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Teaching

• ECON 496 Law and Economics
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• ECON 740 Seminar in Applied Economics Research
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Research Interests

Health Economics, Labor Economics, Economic Demography

 

Journal Articles

• Sabia, Joseph J., Angela Dills, and Jeffrey DeSimone. Forthcoming. “Sexual Violence Against Women and
  Labor Market Outcomes,” American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings).
  
• Rees, Daniel I. and Sabia, Joseph J. Forthcoming. “Forced Intercourse, Mental Health, and Human Capital,”
  Southern Economic Journal.
  
• Hansen, Benjamin, Daniel I.Rees, and Joseph J. Sabia. Forthcoming. “Cigarette Taxes and How Youths Obtain
  Cigarettes,” National Tax Journal.
  
• Sabia, Joseph J. Forthcoming. “Sexual Orientation and Young Adults’ Earnings: New Evidence from Add
  Health,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
  
• Cesur, Resul, Joseph J. Sabia, and Erdal Tekin. 2013. “The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and
  Mental Health,” Journal of Health Economics 32(1): 51-65.
• Sabis, Joseph J. and Robert Nielsen. Forthcoming. “The Effect of Minimum Wages on Material Hardship:
  Evidence from the SIPP,” Review of Economics of the Household.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2013. “The Effect of Parental Involvement Laws on Youth Suicide,”
  Economic Inquiry 51(1): 620-636.
  
• Sabia Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2012 “Body weight and wages: evidence from Add Health.” Economics
  and Human Biology 10(1): 14-19.
  
• Sabia, Joseph J., Richard Burkhauser and Benjamin Hansen. 2012. “Are Minimum Wage Effects Always
  Small? Evidence from a Case Study of New York State,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 65(2): 350-
  376.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2012. “Does the Number of Sex Partners Affect Educational Attainment?”
  Journal of Population Economics 25: 89-118.
  
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2011. “Individual Heterogeneity and Reverse Causality in the
  Relationship between Migraine Headache and Educational Attainment,” Economics of Education Review 30:
  913-923.
  
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2011. “The Effect of Body Weight on Adolescent Sexual Activity,”
  Health Economics 20(11): 1130-1348.
  
• Rees, Daniel I. and Joseph J. Sabia. 2011. The Effect of Migraine Headache on Educational Attainment, Journal of Human Resources 46(2): 317-332.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2011. Boys will be Boys: Gender Differences in the Schooling Effects of Sexual Abstinence, Health Economics 20(3): 287-305.
• Rees, Daniel I. and Joseph J. Sabia. 2010. Body Weight and Smoking Initiation: Evidence from Add Health, Journal of Health Economics 29(5: )774-777.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Richard V. Burkhauser. 2010. Minimum Wages and Poverty: Will a $9.50 Federal Minimum Wage Really Help the Working Poor? Southern Economic Journal 76(3): 592-623. Winner of 2010 Southern Economic Association, 2010 Georgescu-Roegen Prize for Best SEJ Article of the Year.
• Rees, Daniel I. and Joseph J. Sabia. 2010. Exercise and Adolescent Mental Health: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 1(3): 13-25.
• Rees, Daniel I. and Joseph J. Sabia. 2010. Sports Participation and Academic Performance: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Economics of Education Review 29(5): 751-759.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2010. Wastin’ Away in Margaritaville? New Evidence on the Academic Effects of Teenage Binge Drinking, Contemporary Economic Policy 28(1): 1-22.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2009. The Effect of Sexual Abstinence on Females' Educational Attainment, Demography 46(4): 695-715.
• Rees, Daniel I. and Joseph J. Sabia. 2009. The Effect of Breastfeeding on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Siblings, Journal of Human Capital 3(1): 43-72.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2009. Identifying Minimum Wage Effects in State Panels: Evidence from the Current Population Survey, Industrial Relations 48(2): 311-328.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2009. The Effects of Minimum Wage Increases on Retail Employment: New Evidence from Monthly CPS Data, Journal of Labor Research 30(1): 75-97.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2009. School-Year Employment and Academic Performance of Young Adolescents, Economics of Education Review 28(2): 268-176.
• Rees, Daniel I., Joseph J. Sabia, and Laura Argys. 2009. A Head above the Rest: Height and Adolescent Psychological Wellbeing, Economics and Human Biology 7(2): 217-228.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Daniel I. Rees. 2008. The Effect of Adolescent Virginity Status on Psychological Well-Being. Journal of Health Economics 27(5): 1368-1381.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2008. Blacks and The Family Cap: Abortions, Pregnancies, and Spillovers, Journal of Population Economics 21(1): 11-134.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2008. Every Breath You Take: Postpartum Maternal Smoking and Childhood Asthma, Southern Economic Journal 75(1): 128-158.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2008. Minimum Wages and the Economic Wellbeing of Single Mothers, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 27(4): 848-866.
• Horvath-Rosev, Ann, Elizabeth Peters, and Joseph J. Sabia. 2008. Capping Kids: The Family Cap and Non-marital Childbearing, Population Research and Policy Review 27(2): 119-138.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2008. There’s No Place Like Home: A Hazard Model Analysis of Aging-in-Place Among Older Homeowners in the PSID, Research on Aging 30(1): 3-35.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2007. Reading, Writing, and Sex: The Effect of Losing Virginity on Academic Performance, Economic Inquiry 45(4): 647-670.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2008. "Youth Smoking and Addiction: Evaluating the Wisdom and Efficacy of Government Intervention," Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 8(3): 213-217.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2007. Early Adolescent Sex and Diminished School Attachment: Selection or Spillovers? Southern Economic Journal 74(1): 239-268.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2007. The Effect of Body Weight on Adolescent Academic Achievement, Southern Economic Journal 73(4): 871-900.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Joseph J. Sabia. 2007. The Effectiveness of Minimum Wage Increases in Reducing Poverty: Past, Present, and Future, Contemporary Economic Policy 25(2): 262-281.
• Rees, Daniel I. and Joseph J. Sabia. 2007. The Relationship Between Abortion and Depression: New Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Medical Science Monitor 13(10): 430-436.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2006. Does Sex Education Affect Adolescent Sexual Behaviors and Health? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 25(4): 783-802.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2006. Does Early Adolescent Sex Cause Depressive Symptoms? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 25(4): 803-825.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2004. Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence Against New Mothers, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 7(4): 191-205.

Academic Papers in Progress

• “Teen Parenthood and Civic Engagement,” (with Elizabeth Peters, Joe Price, and Reginald Covington).
  
• “The Effect of Teen Parenthood on Risky Behaviors: Evidence from the NLSY79 and NLSY97,” (with
  Elizabeth Peters, Joe Price, and Reginald Covington).
  
• “The Effect of Teen Fatherhood on Educational Attainment: Evidence across Three Cohorts,” Cornell University
  (with Elizabeth Peters, Joe Price, and Reginald Covington).
  
• “The Effect of Cigarette Taxes on Youth Smoking: New Evidence from the TABS,” working paper (with Daniel
  Rees and Benjamin Hansen).
  
• “The Impact of Social Connectedness on Health,” mimeo, University of Colorado Denver (with Daniel Rees
  and Philip Babcock).
  
• “Indexing, the Business Cycle, and the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages,” working paper, San Diego
  State University.

 

Refereed Published Reports

• Sabia, Joseph J. 2010 Failed Stimulus: Minimum Wage Increases and Their Failure to Boost Gross Domestic Product, Employment Policies Institute.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Richard V. Burkhauser 2008 Minimum Wages and Poverty: Will the Obama Proposal Help the Working Poor? Employment Policies Institute.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Richard V. Burkhauser 2008 Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Why Raising New York’s Minimum Wage Continues to be a Poor Way to Help the Working Poor, Employment Policies Institute.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2007 The Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Single Mothers, Employment Policies Institute.
• Sabia, Joseph J. 2006 The Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Retail and Small Businesses, Employment Policies Institute.
• Logan, Christopher, William Rhodes, and Joseph J. Sabia 2006. Food Stamp Program Costs and Error Rates, 1989-2001, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Joseph J. Sabia 2005 Raising the Minimum Wage: Another Empty Promise for the Working Poor, Employment Policies Institute.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Joseph J. Sabia 2004 Raising New York’s Minimum Wage: A Poor Way to Help the Working Poor, Employment Policies Institute.

 

Grants Awarded

• Principal Investigator, Employment Policies Institute, "Minimum Wages, the Labor Market, and Indexing," 2012-
  2013.
• Co-Investigator, Assistant Secretary of Program Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, "The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Fatherhood", with Principal Investigator H. Elizabeth Peters (Cornell University) and Joseph Price (Brigham Young University).
• Principal Investigator, Employment Policies Institute, "The Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Economic Growth," 2010-2011.
• Principal Investigator, Employment Policies Institute, "Do Minimum Wages Reduce Material Hardship? Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation", with Robert Nielsen (University of Georgia).
• Principal Investigator, Employment Policies Institute, "The Distribution of Benefits and Job Losses from Senator Barack Obama’s Proposed Federal Minimum Wage Increase from $7.25 to $9.50," 2008-2009, with Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University).
• Principal Investigator, Employment Policies Institute, "Who Will Benefit from a New York State Minimum Wage Hike" 2007-2008, with Richard V. Burkhauser.
• Principal Investigator, Employment Policies Institute, "The Impact of State Minimum Wage Laws on Small and Retail Business Employment," 2006-2007.
• Principal Investigator, Employment Policies Institute, "The Impact of Minimum Wages on Single Mothers," 2007-2008.
• Principal Investigator, University of Georgia Research Foundation, "Sexual Behavior, Educational Performance, and Abortion Law: Finding Paths of Causality," 2006.
• University of Georgia Presidential Venture Fund Funding for International Health Economics World Congress Travel, 2007.