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Professor Sandy’s research is primarily on occupational safety and health. He studies the effect of government regulations and compensation plans on the rates of workplace deaths, injuries, and long-term illnesses. He also compares the impacts of different workplace safety systems across countries. A related topic that he is currently studying is how to obtain accurate measures of workplace risks. There are about 6,000 accidental deaths at work in the United States each year and 1.8 million injuries that cause at least one lost day from work.
Dr. Sandy’s most recent research studies the affect of long-term illness risk on the wages of blue collar workers. He has found that workers in occupations that are unhealthy earn substantially more than similar workers in more healthy occupations. The implication of these results is that exposing and publicizing unknown occupational health risks would sharply restrict the supply of workers to risky occupations and, depending on the costs involved, force employers to reduce the risks.
Selected Publications:
- "The Economics of U.S. Intercollegiate Sports," Handbook on the
Economics of Sport, chapter 40; ed. by Wladimir Andreff and Stephan Syzmanski,
Edward Elgar, London, 2005.
- "Long-term Illness and Wages: The Impact of Risk of Occupationally-related
Long-term Illness on Earnings," (co-author Bob Elliott (University
of Aberdeen) Journal of Human Resources Summer 2005.
- "Analyzing Workplace Safety Policies in Hong Kong with a Simulation,"
(coauthered with Steve Russell and Xiangdon Wei [Department of Economics,
Lingnan University]) International Economic Journal June 2005.
- "The
Economics of Sport: An International Perspective" , with Peter
Sloane and Mark Rosentraub, Palgrave MacMilan, London, 2004.
- "Why Do US Colleges Have Sports Programs?: Intercollegiate Sports
as Enrollment Management," with Peter Sloane, University of Swansea,
in John Fizel editor, Economics of Collegiate Sports, Praeger Westport
Connecticut, Summer 2005.
- “Measurement Error and the Effects of Unions on the Compensating
Differentials for Fatal Workplace Risks,” with Robert F. Elliott, W.
Stanley Siebert, and Xiangdong Wei, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty,
Vol. 23, No. 1, 33-56, 2001.
- “Adam Smith May Have Been Right After All: A New Approach to the
Analysis of Compesating Differentials,” with Robert F. Elliott, Economics
Letters, Vol. 59, 127-131, 1998.
- “Unions and Risk: Their Impact on the Compensation for Fatal Risk,”
with Robert F. Elliott, Economica, Vol 63, No 250, May 1996.
- “Estimating the Implicit Value of a Young Child's Life,” with
Paul Carlin, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 58, No. 1, 291-310,
July 1991.
- “The Value of Time and the Effect of Fines on Child Car Safety Seat
Usage,” with Paul Carlin, Applied Economics, Vol. 22, No. 4,
April 1990.
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