SHORT CV
(November, 2008)
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Current employment: Professor of Economics, University
of
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Education:
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Research interest: Economics of the family, labor and
microeconomics.
RESEARCH ON THE FAMILY
Published
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"How does the marriage market clear? An empirical
framework", Canadian Journal of
Economics, 41(4). November, 2008, p. 1121-1155. working paper
version.
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“Class, Gender and Marriage”, (with Gillian Hamilton),
Review of Economic Dynamics, 10(4),
Oct 2007, p. 549-575, working
paper version.
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“Estimating a marriage matching model with spillover
effects”, (with Eugene Choo), Demography, 43(3), August 2006, 463-488, working paper version.
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“Who marries whom and why”, (with Eugene Choo), Journal of
Political Economy, 114(1), February 2006, 175-201. working
paper version.
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“Why Dowries”, (with Maristella
Botticini), American Economic Review, 93(4),
September 2003, 1385-1398. Working paper
version (with proofs and survey on dowries)
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“Differential Fecundity and Gender Biased Parental
Investments in Health”, (with Xiaodong Zhu), Review
of Economic Dynamics,
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"Competing Pre-Marital Investments", (with
Mike Peters), Journal of Political Economy, June 2002, 592-608. Working
paper version.
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"Differential Fecundity, Markets and Gender
Roles", Journal of Political Economy,106(2), April 1998, 334-354. Working
paper version.
Unpublished manuscripts
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"Testing
Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching",
April 2009.
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"Marriage matching,
risk sharing and spousal labor supplies" with Eugene Choo and Shannon Seitz, September 2008
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"Large
shocks and small changes in the marriage market for famine born cohorts in
China" with Loren Brandt and Carl Vogel, Aug 2008
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"Is there
increasing return in marriage markets?" with Maristella
Botticini, Dec 2007
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"Lifecycle marriage
matching: Theory and evidence" with Eugene Choo,
2007.
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“Monogamy implies
positive assortative matching”, November 2006.
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"Do
Innovations in Birth Control Technologies Improve the Welfare of Women?",
January 2002.
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“Marriage and Gender”, Draft
manuscript for Cambridge University Press.
RESEARCH ON ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
Published
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"Unions without Rents: The Curious case of
Faculty Unions", (with Arthur Hosios), Canadian
Journal of Economics, 93(4), 37(1), February 2004, 28-52.
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"Does Federal
Research Funding Increase University Research Output?", (with Abigail
Payne), Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy: 3(1), 2003,
Article 1.
Working
paper version
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"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.
RESEARCH ON LABOR
ECONOMICS
Published
· "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
· "Up or Out
Rules in the Market for Lawyers", (with Brendan O'Flaherty), Journal
of Labor Economics, 13(4), October 1995, 709-735.
· "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.
RESEARCH ON
MICROECONOMICS
Published
· "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.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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President (2007-2008): Canadian Economic Association
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President Elect (2006-2007): Canadian Economic Association
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Moderator (1998 - 2004): SOLE Labor and Population
Economics Seminars
· Associate Editor
(2001 - 2004): Economics Bulletin
INVITED LECTURES
· Canadian Economic
Association Presidential Address, 2008: Slides,
Paper
· Cowles Foundation Structural Microeconomics Lectures,
· State of the Art Lecture, Canadian
Economic Association Annual Meetings, 2003.
· Waino Pihl Lecture, Wayne State University, 1999.
SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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2007/2008: AEA
meetings, UC Berkeley, Mac Master University, McGill University, University of
Essex, National University of Singapore,
University of Chicago.
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2006/2007: MIT,
Stanford, SED at Vancouver, USC, University of Toronto.
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2005/2006: AEA
meetings, ESPE meetings, University of Rochester, University of Washington at
Seattle.
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2004/2005: