Current
employment: Professor of
Economics, University of Toronto.
Education: University of Chicago, Ph.D. in economics,
1981.
Research
interest: Economics of
the family, labor and microeconomics.
"Large shocks and small changes in the marriage market for
famine born cohorts in China" with Loren Brandt and Carl Vogel, Journal of European Economic Association.
forthcoming Working
paper version.
“A
quantitative review of Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the
American Family by Carbone and Cahn” with Kirsten Cornelson, Journal of
Economic Literature, March 2016. 15 pages
“GARY BECKER AND THE ART OF
ECONOMICS”. Journal of Demographic Economics,
81(2015), pp 3-6
“Becker Meets
Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Communication and Cognitive Skills” (with
Robert J. McCann; Xianwen Shi; Ronald Wolthoff) Journal of
Law, Economics, and Organization 2015. Working
paper version
“Assortative
Mating in the Marriage Market”. In: James D. Wright
(editor-in-chief), International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 2.
Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 100–107
"Testing
Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching”, Journal of Labor Economics, April 2015, Vol. 33, No. 2: 409-44. Working paper version
“Compensating for Unequal Parental Investments in Schooling”, Journal of Population Economics, (2015)
28:423–462. Working
paper version. Winner: Kuznet
Prize.
"How
does the marriage market clear? An empirical framework",
Canadian Journal of Economics, 41(4).
November, 2008, p. 1121-1155. working paper version.
“Class, Gender and Marriage”, (with Gillian Hamilton), Review of Economic Dynamics, 10(4), Oct
2007, p. 549-575, working paper
version.
“Estimating
a marriage matching model with spillover effects”, (with Eugene Choo), Demography, 43(3), August 2006, 463-488,
working paper version.
“Who
marries whom and why”, (with Eugene Choo), Journal
of Political Economy, 114(1), February 2006, 175-201. working paper
version.
“Why
Dowries”, (with Maristella Botticini),
American Economic Review, 93(4),
September 2003, 1385-1398. Working paper version
(with proofs and survey on dowries)
“Differential Fecundity and Gender Biased Parental Investments in
Health”, (with Xiaodong Zhu), Review of Economic Dynamics, 5(4) Oct 2002, 999-1024, Working paper version.
"Competing
Pre-Marital Investments", (with Mike Peters), Journal of Political Economy, June 2002, 592-608. Working
paper version.
"Differential
Fecundity, Markets and Gender Roles", Journal
of Political Economy,106(2), April 1998, 334-354. Working paper version.
Cohabitation
versus marriage: Marriage matching with peer effects with Ismael Mourifie, 2014. Working paper version.
"Marriage matching, risk sharing and spousal labor
supplies" with Eugene Choo and Shannon Seitz, September 2008. Working paper version.
"Is there increasing return in marriage markets?" with Maristella Botticini, Dec 2007.
Working paper version.
"Lifecycle marriage matching: Theory and evidence" with
Eugene Choo, 2007. Working
paper version.
“Monogamy
implies positive assortative matching”, November 2006. Working paper version.
"Do
Innovations in Birth Control Technologies Improve the Welfare of Women?", January 2002. Working paper version.
“Becker
Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Communication and Cognitive Skills”
(with Robert J. McCann; Xianwen Shi; Ronald Wolthoff) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 2015.
Working paper version.
"Unions without Rents: The Curious case of Faculty
Unions", (with Arthur Hosios), Canadian Journal
of Economics, 93(4), 37(1), February 2004, 28-52. Working paper version.
"Does
Federal Research Funding Increase University Research Output?",
(with Abigail Payne), Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy: 3(1),
2003, Article 1. Working paper
version.
"Tenure
and other Unusual Personnel Practices in Academia", Journal of Law,
Economics and Organization, 14(1), 1998, 152-173. Unpublished version
circulated under the title "Specialization, Obsolescence and Asymmetric
Information in Academia".
"Some
Evidence on the Signalling Role of Research in Academia", Economic Letters,
54(3), July 1997, 271-276.
"Are
First Impressions Important in Academia?",
Journal of Human Resources, 26, Spring 1991, p. 236-255.
"Occupational
Choice under Uncertainty", Econometrica, May
1984, p. 631-645.
“Becker
Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Communication and Cognitive Skills”
(with Robert J. McCann; Xianwen Shi; Ronald Wolthoff) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 2015.
Working
paper version
"Dynamic
Factor Models of Consumption, Hours and Income", (with Joseph Altonji and Ana Paula Martins), Research in Economics,
56(1), March 2002, 3-59. First version circulated in 1987 as NBER working paper
no. 2155. Working paper version.
"Up
or Out Rules in the Market for Lawyers", (with Brendan O'Flaherty),
Journal of Labor Economics, 13(4), October 1995, 709-735. Working paper version.
"Careers
in Ongoing Hierarchies", (with Dominique Demougin),
American Economic Review, 84, December 1994, p. 1261-1277.
"On the Job Screening, Up or Out Rules, and Firm Growth",
(with Brendan O'Flaherty), Canadian Journal of Economics, 25, May 1992, p.
346-368.
"Promotion
Lotteries", (with Brendan O'Flaherty), Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization, 7, 1991, p. 401-409.
"Testing
the Response of Consumption to Income with (Noisy) Panel Data", (with
Joseph Altonji), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May
1987, p. 293-328. Unpublished manuscripts
"The Use of Wages in Coordinating Hours of Work", July
1990. Working paper
version.
“Becker
Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Communication and Cognitive Skills”
(with Robert J. McCann; Xianwen Shi; Ronald Wolthoff) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 2015.
Working paper version
“Informational Externalities and Intermediaries in Frictional
Search Markets”, (with Xianwen Shi), Canadian Journal
of Economics, forthcoming. Working paper version.
"The
Creation of Firms and Plants", (with Xiaodong
Zhu), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 22, 1997, 141-178
"The
Division of Markets is Limited by the Extent of Liquidity", (with Nicholas
Economides), American Economic Review, March 1988, p. 108-121.
Goh Keng Swee Visiting Professor of
Economics (2013-), National University of Singapore.
President
(2007-2008): Canadian Economic Association
Becker Friedman Institute Lectures, University of Chicago, 2012.
IAS Benjamin Meaker Lecture, Bristol
University 2010.
Canadian
Economic Association Presidential Address, 2008: Slides, Paper
Cowles Foundation Structural Microeconomics Lectures, Yale
University, 2006.
State of the Art Lecture, Canadian Economic Association Annual
Meetings, 2003.
Waino Pihl
Lecture, Wayne State University, 1999.
2014-2015:
Academia Sinica, Singapore Management University,
Iowa State University, University of Iowa, University of Pennsylvania, SUNY
Buffalo, University of Guelph.
2013-2014:
UCL, LSE, ASSA meetings, UCLA, UCSD, Cal Tech. CEA meetings.
2012-2013:
SED, Yale University, MIT, University of HK, Chinese U of HK, HK University of
Science and Technology