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Economics professor John Quigley, leading scholar of housing policy, urban economics, dies

May 17, 2012:

Economist John Quigley, the I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley with apppointments in the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Haas School of Business, passed away May 12 in Berkeley. He was a leading scholar of housing markets, energy-efficient buildings, homelessness and racial discrimination.

Low birth weight, poverty affect disease in adulthood, says new study co-authored by UC Berkeley economist

October 24, 2011:

Vulnerability to asthma, heart disease, hypertension and stroke in adulthood begins very early in life and is linked to low birth weight and poverty, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health and co-authored by an economist at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.

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