RONALD GORDON EHRENBERG
Vice-President for Academic Programs,
Planning and Budgeting
Cornell University (435 Day Hall)
Ithaca, NY 14853-2801 Ithaca, NY 14853-3901
607-255-3062
Fax: 607-255-2990
Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial
& Labor Relations
Cornell University (256 Ives Hall)
607-255-3026
Fax: 607-255-7774
E-mail: RGE2@CORNELL.EDU
Born April 20, 1946
U.S. Citizen
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Primary: Theory and Empirical Analysis of Labor Markets, Human Resource Problems, Evaluation of Social
Programs, Analysis of Educational Issues, Analysis of Compensation Policies
Secondary: Applied Economic Theory and Policy, Applied Econometrics
GRADUATE STUDIES
Northwestern University, Department of Economics
- September 1966 - June 1970, M.A., Ph.D. awarded June 1970
- Dissertation Title: The Short-Run Employment Decision and Overtime Behavior
in U.S. Industry, 1966
- Supervisor: Frank Brechling
- Fellowships: NDEA Title IV Fellowship, 6/66-6/69
- Dissertation Year Fellowship, Manpower Administration,
U.S. Department of Labor, 4/69-3/70
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Dissertation Year Fellowship, 9/69-6/70
PRE-DOCTORAL STUDIES
B.A. (cum laude), Mathematics, Harpur College, SUNY at Binghamton, 6/66
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Economic Association
American Educational Research Association
Econometric Society
American Education Finance Association
Industrial Relations Research Association
REGULAR ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND HONORS
- Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting, Cornell University, July 1995-
- Acting Vice President for Academic Programs and Planning, Cornell University, March1 1995-June 1995
- Irving M. Ives Professor Industrial and Labor Relations & Economics, Cornell University, July 1985-
- List of Scholars Eligible for Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, June 1981-
- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1981-
- Director of Research, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, January 1979-June
1995
- Director, ILR-Cornell Institute for Labor Market Policies, June 1990-
- Professor of Economics and Labor Economics, Cornell University, November 1977-June 1985
- Chairman, Department of Labor Economics, Cornell University, September 1976-August 1981
- Associate Professor of Economics (Arts and Sciences) and Labor Economics (Industrial and Labor Relations), Cornell
University, September 1975-October 1977
- Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, September 1972-75
- Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1971-72
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Loyola University, 1970-71
- Instructor of Economics, Northwestern University, Spring 1970
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
Labor Market Analysis, Evaluation of Social Programs, Economic Analysis of the University, Economic Security (UI
Module)
COMPLETED RESEARCH
Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:
-
"Absenteeism and the Overtime Decision," American Economic Review, June 1970.
- "Heterogeneous Labor, the Internal Labor Market, and the Dynamics of the Employment-Hours Decision," Journal of
Economic Theory, March 1971.
- "The Impact of the Overtime Premium on Employment and Hours in U.S. Industry," Western Economic Journal, June
1971.
- "Relative Wages, Incremental Budgeting and the Demand for State and Local Government Employees," American
Economic Review, June 1973.
- "Organizational Control and the Economic Efficiency of Hospitals: The Production of Nursing Services," Journal of
Human Resources, Winter 1974.
- "Municipal Government Structure, Unionization, and the Wages of Fire Fighters," Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, October 1973.
- "Heterogeneous Labor, Minimum Hiring Standards and Job Vacancies in Public Employment," Journal of Political
Economy, November-December 1973.
- "The Demand for Labor in the Public Sector" (with Orley Ashenfelter). In D. Hamermesh, ed., Labor in the Public
and Non-Profit Sectors, Princeton University Press), 1975.
- "Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance" (with C. Azzi), Journal of Political Economy, February 1975.
- "A Model of Public Sector Wage Determination" (with G. Goldstein), Journal of Urban Economics, June 1975.
- "Executive Compensation in Municipalities" (with G. Goldstein), Southern Economic Journal, July 1976.
- "The Impact of the Win 2 Program on Welfare Costs and Recipient Rates" (with J. Hewlett), Journal of Human
Resources, Spring 1976.
- "Impact of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and Post-Unemployment Wage" (with R.
Oaxaca), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Winter Meetings of the Industrial Relations Research Association
(excerpted in the March 1976, Monthly Labor Review), reprinted in J. Crawford, ed., Readings in Modern Economics.
- "Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gains" (with R. Oaxaca), American
Economic Review, December 1976.
- "Officer Compensation and Performance in Local Building Trade Unions" (with S. Goldberg), Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, January 1977.
- "Household Allocation of Time and Religiosity: Replication and Extension," Journal of Political Economy, April 1977.
- "The Impact of Win 2: Reply," Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1977.
- "Has Labor Economics Been Useful?" (with D. Hamermesh and G. Johnson), Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
October 1977.
- "The Costs of Defined Benefit Plans and Firm Adjustments" (with B. Barnow), Quarterly Journal of Economics,
November 1979.
- Retirement Policies, Employment and Unemployment," American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May
1979. (Reprinted in Ernst W. Stromsdorfer, ed., Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Vol. 5, Sage Publications, 1980.
- "Who Pays for Pensions in the State and Local Sector: Workers or Employers? (with R. Smith), Proceedings of the
Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1980.
- "The Impact of Retirement Policies on Employment and Unemployment" in Paul Burgess and Jerry Kingston, eds., High
Employment: Problems and Solutions (Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 1979).
- "Correlates of Underfunding of Public Sector Retirement Systems." Economic Inquiry, July 1980.
- "Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth" (with Alan Marcus), Research in Labor
Economics, Vol. 3, 1980.
- "A Framework for Evaluating State and Local Government Pension Reform" in Peter Mieszkowski and George Peterson,
eds., Public Sector Labor Markets, Vol. 4 of the COUPE Papers on Public Economics (Urban Institute, Washington,
DC, 1980).
- "The Demographic Structure of Unemployment Rates and Labor Market Transition Probabilities," Research in Labor
Economics, Vol. 3, 1980.
- "Retirement System Characteristics and Compensating Wage Differentials in the Public Sector," Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, July 1980.
- "Estimating the Narcotic Effects of Public Sector Impasse Procedures" (with R. Butler), Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, October 1981.
- "The Overtime Pay Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act" (with P. Schumann) in Simon Rottenberg, ed.,
Economics of Legal Minimum Wage (American Enterprise Institute, 1981).
- "Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment and Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model" (with A.
Marcus), Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1982.
- "The Effect of Unions on Productivity in the Public Sector: The Case of Municipal Libraries" (with J. Schwarz) in
Werner Hirsch and Anthony Rufolo, eds., The Economics of Municipal Labor Markets (1982).
- "Compliance With the Overtime Pay Premium" (with P. Schumann), Journal of Law and Economics, April 1982.
- "Estimating Wage-Fringe Trade-Offs: Some Data Problems (with R. Smith), in J. Triplett, ed., The Measurement of
Labor Costs (University of Chicago Press, 1983).
- "Unions and Productivity in the Public Sector: A Study of Municipal Libraries" (with D. Sherman and J. Schwarz),
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1983.
- "Cost of Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts: A Summary of Results" (with L. Danziger and G. San), Journal
of Labor Economics, July 1983.
- "Cost-of-Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts" (with L. Danziger and G. San), Research in Labor Economics,
Vol. 6, 1984.
- "Optimal Financial Aid Policies for a Selective University" (with D. Sherman), Journal of Human Resources, Spring
1984.
- "Economic and Statistical Analysis of Discrimination in Hiring" (with R. Smith), Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual
Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1984.
- "Compensating Wage Differentials for Mandatory Overtime" (with P. Schumann), Economic Inquiry, October 1984.
- "The Social Security Student Benefit Program and Family Decisions" (with R. Luzadis), Economics of Education
Review, May 1986.
- "Public Sector Labor Market" (with J. Schwarz), in 0. Ashenfelter and R. Layard, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics
(North Holland, 1987).
- "Comparable Worth in the Public Sector" (with R. Smith), in David Wise, ed., Public Sector Payrolls (University of
Chicago Press, 1987).
- "Effects of In-College Employment on Academic Achievement and Post-College Outcomes: A Summary of Results"
(with D. Sherman), Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1987.
- "Workers' Rights: Rethinking Protective Labor Legislation", Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 8, Part B, 1986).
A slightly revised version was published in D. Lee Bawden and F. Skidmore, eds., Rethinking Employment Policy
(Urban Institute Press, 1989).
- "Comparable Worth Wage Adjustments and Female Employment in the Public Sector," (with R. Smith) Journal of Labor
Economics, January 1987.
- "On Estimating the Effects of Increased Aid to Education" (with R. Chaykowski), in R. Freeman and C. Ichniowski,
eds., The Public Sector Look of American Unions (University of Chicago Press, 1988).
- "Part-Time Employment in the United States" (with P. Rosenberg and J. Li), in R. Hart, ed., Employment,
Unemployment, and Labor Utilization (Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1988).
- "Compensation and Firm Performance" (with G. Milkovich), in M. Kleiner, et al., eds., Human Resources and the
Performance of Firms (Madison, WI: IRRA, 1987).
- "On Overtime Hours Legislation," Proceedings of a Symposium on Hours of Work and Overtime: Labour Market Issues
(Background Report to the Ontario Task Force on Hours of Work and Overtime, Toronto; Queens Printer, September
1987).
- "Are School Superintendents Rewarded for Performance?" (with R. Chaykowski and R. A. Ehrenberg) in D. Monk, ed.,
Micro Level School Finance: Issues and Implications for Policy (1988 American Educational Finance Association
Yearbook, 1988).
- "Determinants of the Compensation and Mobility of School Superintendents" (with R. Chaykowski and R. A.
Ehrenberg), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1988.
- "Workers' Compensation, Wages and the Risk of Injury," in J. Burton, ed., New Perspectives on Workers'
Compensation (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1988).
- "Econometric Analyses of the Empirical Consequences of Comparable Worth: What Have We Learned?" in A. Hill and
M. Killingsworth, eds., Comparable Worth Analyses and Evidence (ILR Press, 1989).
- "Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation: Do They Matter? (with G. Jakubson), Industrial Relations,
Winter 1989.
- "An Economic Analysis of the Market for Law School Students," Journal of Legal Education 35, No. 5, 1989.
- "The Incentive Effects of Tournaments Revisited: Evidence From the European PGA Tour" (with M. Bognanno),
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, February 1990.
- "Why WARN?" (with G. Jakubson), Regulation, Summer 1990.
- "Do Tournaments Have Incentive Effects?" (with M. Bognanno), Journal of Political Economy, December 1990.
- "School District Leave Policies, Teacher Absenteeism, and Student Achievement" (with R.A. Ehrenberg, D. Rees, and
E. Ehrenberg), Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1991.
- "Faculty Turnover at American Colleges and Universities" (with H. Kasper and D. Rees), Economics of Education
Review vol. 10, no. 2 (1991).
- "Academic Labor Supply" in C. Clotfelter, R. Ehrenberg, M. Getz, and J. Siegfried, Economic Challenges in Higher
Education (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
- "The Flow of New Doctorates," Journal of Economic Literature 30 (June 1992).
- "How Would Universities Respond to Increased Federal Support for Graduate Students" (with D. Rees and D. Brewer),
in C. Clotfelter and M. Rothschild, Eds., Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education (University of Chicago
Press, 1993).
- "Why WARN?" The Impact of Recent Plant Closing and Layoff Prenotification Legislation in the United States" (with
G. Jakubson) in C. Buechtemann, ed., Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior: Interdisciplinary Approaches
and International Evidence (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1993).
- "Institutional Responses to Increased External Support for Graduate Students" (with D. Rees and D. Brewer), Review
of Economics and Statistics (November 1993).
- "What Price Diversity? The Death of Need-Based Financial Aid at Selective Private Colleges?" (with S. Murphy),
Change, July/August 1993.
- "Do School and Teacher Characteristics Matter? Evidence From High School and Beyond (with D. Brewer) Economics
of Education Review 13, No. 1 (1994).
- "Do Historically Black Institutions of Higher Education Confer Unique Advantages on Black Students: An Initial
Analysis" (with D. Rothstein), in R. Ehrenberg, ed., Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in
Education (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1994).
- "Did Teachers' Verbal Ability and Race Matter in the 1960's?: Coleman Revisited" (with D. Brewer), Economics of
Education Review 14, No. 1 (March 1995).
- "Do Teachers' Race, Gender and Ethnicity Matter?: Evidence From NELS88" (with D. Goldhaber and D. Brewer),
Industrial and Labor Relations Review 48 (April 1995).
- "Do Doctoral Students' Financial Support Patterns Affect Their Times to Degree and Completion Probabilities?" (with
P. Mavros), Journal of Human Resources (July 1995).
- "Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College?" (with D. Brewer) (mimeo, June 1995), forthcoming in Research in
Labor Economics.
- "The 1995 NRC Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model" (with P. Hurst), Change (May/June 1996).
- "The American Research University: National Treasure or Endangered Species?: An Overview" in R. Ehrenberg, ed.,
The American Research University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1996).
Books and Book-Length Final Reports:
- Fringe Benefits and Overtime Behavior: Theory and Econometric Analysis (Lexington Books, D. C. Heath, 1971), 162
pages.
- The Demand for State and Local Government Employees: An Economic Analysis (Lexington Books, D. C. Heath, 1972,
146 pages.
- An Economic Analysis of Local Government Employment and Wages (Final Report submitted to U.S. Department of
Labor, 216 pages, December 1973).
- The Economic Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployed Workers' Job Search (Final Report submitted to the
U.S. Department of Labor, 103 pages, June 1976).
- An Evaluation of Impasse Procedures for Police and Firefighters in New York State (Final Report submitted to the
National Science Foundation, February 1977, 502 pages, by T. Kochan, R. Ehrenberg, J. Baderschneider, T. Jick and
M. Mironi), revised version published as a monograph by the American Arbitration Association under the title, Dispute
Resolution Under Fact-Finding and Arbitration: An Empirical Analysis (New York, 1979).
- The Distribution of Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Costs with R. Hutchens and R. Smith. Printed as U.S.
Department of Labor, Technical Analysis Paper No. 58 (Washington, DC: GPO, October 1978).
- The Regulatory Process and Labor Earnings (Academic Press, September 1979). (Selected as one of the 17 outstanding
books in industrial relations and labor economics during the 1970-79 period by the Princeton University Industrial
Relations Section.)
- Longer Hours or More Jobs? (with P. Schumann) (NYSSILR Publications Division, 1982). An abbreviated early
version appeared as "The Overtime Pay Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act" in Report of the Minimum Wage
Study Commission, Vol. 3 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, June 1971), pp. 149-235. (Selected
by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books published in 1982 and by the Princeton University Industrial
Relations Section as one of the ten outstanding books in labor economics and industrial relations published in 1982.)
- Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy (with R. Smith) (Scott, Foresman, 1982) (2nd edition, 1985) (3rd
edition, 1988) (4th edition, Harper Collins, 1991) (5th edition, 1994).
- Labor Economics and Labor Relations (with R. Flanagan and R. Smith) (Scott, Foresman, 1984).
- Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation (with G. Jakubson) (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,
1988).
- Economics of the Employment Relationship (with R. Flanagan, L. Kahn. and R. Smith) (Scott, Foresman, 1989).
- Do Compensation Policies Matter? (Ed.) (ILR Press, 1990).
- Economic Challenges in Higher Education (with C. Clotfelter, M. Getz, and J. Siegfried) (University of Chicago Press,
1991). (Selected by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section as one of the outstanding books in labor
economics and industrial relations published in 1992.)
- Labor Markets and Integrating National Economies (Brookings Institution, 1994). (Selected by the Princeton University
Industrial Relations Section as one of the outstanding books in labor economics and industrial relations published in
1994.)
- Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in Education (Ed.) (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1994). (Selected
by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section as one of the outstanding books in labor economics and industrial
relations published in 1994.)
- The American Research University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1996) (forthcoming).
Miscellaneous - Published Reviews and Comments, Unpublished Papers, Papers
Submitted for Publication, etc.:
- "The Economic Impact of Davis-Bacon Type Legislation: An Econometric Investigation" (mimeo, 1971). This paper
is extensively summarized in J. Gould, Davis-Bacon Act: The Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws (1971).
- "Using Estimates of Income and Substitution Parameters to Predict the Work Incentive Effects of Various Income
Maintenance Programs: A Brief Exposition and Partial Survey of Literature" (with 0. Ashenfelter), Technical Analysis
Paper No. 2, Office of Evaluation, Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research, U.S. Department
of Labor, June 1973.
- Review of 0. Ashenfelter and A. Rees, eds., Discrimination in Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 1973),
Journal of Political Economy (September/October 1974).
- "Some Reflections on Evaluating OSHA's Performance" (paper delivered at a conference on "Evaluating the Effects of
the Occupational Safety and Health Program," March 1975).
- Review of A. Thieblot, Jr., The Davis-Bacon Act (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975), Journal of Business (July
1976).
- "An Evaluation of Two Evaluations" (Paper delivered at a conference on "Evaluating Manpower Training Programs,"
Princeton University, May 1976), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 1, Supplement, 1979.
- "Are the Current Levels of Wages of New York Telephone Employees Just and Reasonable?" (mimeo, May 1977).
- "State Utility Regulation and Labor Earnings" (paper presented to the Econometric Society Meetings, December 1977).
- "The Economics of the Decision to Join a Union: Comment," Journal of Labor Research, Fall 1980.
- "An Agenda for Evaluations of the Productivity and Effectiveness of the U.S. Employment Service" (mimeo, September
1978).
- "Evaluation Research and National Social Policy: An Academic Practitioner's Perspective" in A. Grinols (ed.), Critical
Thinking: Reading Across the Curriculum (Cornell University Press, 1984).
- Review of 0. Ashenfelter and W. Oates, Essays in Labor Market Analysis (Halstead Press, 1977), Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, April 1979.
- "The Effect of Tax Limitation Legislation on Public Sector Labor Markets: A Comment," National Tax Journal, June
1979.
- "Labor Market Data Needs Relating to Antidiscrimination Activity: Comment" in National Commission on Employment
and Unemployment Statistics, Counting the Labor Force: Concepts and Data Needs (Washington, DC, 1980).
- "Work, Income and Retirement: Comment" in U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Work, Income and
Retirement (Washington, DC, August 1979).
- "Dead End Jobs and Youth Unemployment: Discussion" in R. Freeman and D. Wise, eds., The Youth Labor Market
Problem: Its Nature, Causes and Consequences (University of Chicago Press, 1982).
- "The Demographic Structure of Unemployment Rates and Labor Market Transition Probabilities: Empirical Evidence"
(paper prepared for the National Commission for Employment Policy, August 1979), 105 pages.
- "Who Pays for Pension Reform?" (with R. Smith) (December 1980), prepared for the President's Commission on
Pension Policy.
- "Comments on E. G. West and R. J. Staaf," Public Choice 36, 1981, pp. 641-645.
- Review of B. Fleisher, Minimum Wage Regulation in the United States (National Chamber Foundation, 1983), Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, October 1984.
- "Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search: Comment" in R. Freeman and H. Holzer, eds., The Black
Youth Employment Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 1986).
- Review of B. Hirsh and J. Addison, The Economic Analysis of Unions (Allen and Unwin, 1986), Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, January 1987.
- "Merit Pay for School Superintendents?" (with R. Chaykowski and R. A. Ehrenberg) (NBER Working Paper No. 1954,
July 1986).
- "What is a Benefit?", paper presented at the BLS Conference on Compensation Concepts (Washington, DC, March
1987).
- Review of R. Flanagan, Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion (Brookings Institute, 1987), Journal of Economic
Literature, June 1988.
- Reviews of H. Nalbantian, ed., Incentives, Cooperation and Risk Sharing (Rowan & Littlefield, 1987) and P. Burgess
and J. Kingston, An Incentives Approach to Improving the Unemployment Compensation System (Upjohn Institute, 1987)
in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1989.
- "Commentary on Women's Pay in Australia, Great Britain and the United States" in R. Michael, H. Hartman and B.
O. Farrell, Pay Equity: Empirical Inquiries (National Academy Press, 1989).
- Discussion of "Alternative Pay Systems, Firm Performance and Productivity" in A. Blinder, ed. Paying for Productivity:
A Look at the Evidence (Brookings, 1990).
- Review of W. Bowen and J. Sosa, Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences (Princeton University Press, 1989) in
Journal of Economic Literature, June 1990.
- "Do Displaced Workers Suffer Losses of Specific Human Capital: A Comment," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series
on Public Policy, Autumn 1990.
- "Economic Perspectives on the Process of Ph.D. Student Enrollment" (paper prepared for the AAU/AGS project for
Research on Doctoral Education) (mimeo, November 1991).
- Review of W. Bowen and N. Rudenstine, In Pursuit of the Ph.D. (Princeton University Press, 1992) in Journal of
Economic Literature, June 1992.
- "New Minimum Wage Research Symposium: Introduction," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1992.
- "Employment Standards and the Debate Over NAFTA" (mimeo, August 1993).
- "Mandated Benefits or Protective Labor Legislation and Social Insurance? A Comment" in L. Solomon and A. Levenson
(Eds.), Labor Markets, Employment Policy, and Job Creation (Westview Press, 1994).
- Review of Derek Bok, The Cost of Talent (Free Press, 1993), in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1995.
- "Would Tenure Probabilities Increase Faculty Salaries?" (with P. Pieper and R. Willis), NBER Working Paper No. 5150,
June 1995.
- "Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Review Symposium Instroduction," Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, July 1995.
- "The 1995 NRC Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model" (with P. Hurst), NBER Working Paper No. 5523
(April 1996).
- "The Socioeconomic Stratification of American Higher Education: Where Are We Heading?" (paper prepared for the
Princeton Conference on Higher Education, March 21-23, 1996).
OTHER RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (including visiting positions)
- Staff Member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Washington, DC, Summer 1970.
- Economic Consultant to Auerbach Corp. (Philadelphia, PA), 1971-72, on their evaluation of public sector employment
programs for the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Consultant to U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare on the measurement of physician productivity and the
substitutability of different types of medical manpower, Summer 1972.
- Consultant to Office of Evaluation, ASPER, U.S. Department of Labor on the evaluation of department programs, 1/73-7/73 (commuting to Washington two days a week), periodically thereafter for ASPER, the Employment and Training
Administration, and the National Commission of Employment and Unemployment Statistics.
- Associate Program Director, National Institute for Mental Health sponsored Summer Institute in Evaluation Research
Training, University of Massachusetts, Summer 1975 (Peter Rossi, Program Director).
- Refereed and screened manuscripts for the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal
of Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Economic Theory,
Economic Inquiry, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Econometrics, International Economic Review, Journal of
Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, Economics of Education, Labour Economics, National Science Foundation,
World Bank, Journal of Public Economics, Industrial Relations, etc.
- Editor, Research in Labor Economics, An Annual Compilation of Research, 1975-1994 (editor of annual volumes of
collected essays, Vol. 1 published in 1977, Vol. 13 ln 1992).
- Editorial Board, Journal of Economics and Business, October 1975-October 1979.
- Editorial Board, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1977- .
- Advisory Editor, Economic Letters, September 1978-April 1993.
- Editorial Board, American Economic Review, June 1981-May 1984.
- Editorial Board, Economics of Education Review, September 1994- .
- Co-Editor, Journal of Human Resources, December 1994.
- Economic Consultant to various firms (Ketron, Inc., Mathematica, Center for Naval Analysis, Stanford Research
Institute, Urban Institute, Contract Research Corporation, Abt Associates, Resource Consulting Group, Math Tech,
Westat) on their evaluation of Labor and Education Department programs.
- Expert witness testifying on wages of telephone industry employees before the New York Public Service Commission
Case 27100).
- Member, New York State Board of Public Employment Relations Panel of Mediators and Factfinders, March 1976-.
- Member of Two-Person Committee which evaluated the Ph.D. program in Economics at SUNY-Stony Brook for SUNY,
1976-1977.
- Coordinator of arrangements for eight labor economics sessions for the Winter 1977 Econometric Society Meetings.
- Member of the Visiting Faculty, Institute in Employment and Training Administration, Harvard University, 1976-1979
(Summers).
- Expert witness testifying on the expected present value of lost earnings and loss of home services in "wrongful death",
disability, and unfair discharge cases.
- Consultant to various government commissions including the National Commission for Employment Policy, National
Commission on Employment and Unemployment, Statistics, Minimum Wage Study Commission, Select Commission
on Immigration and Refugee Policy, National Commission on the Unemployment Insurance System, Ontario Task Force
on Hours of Work and Overtime. Member, New York State Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Unemployment Insurance
Reform.
- Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research (Palo Alto), Summer 1980.
- Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, December 1980 and May 1986.
- Member, AAUP Committee on Economic Status of Academic Profession (Committee Z), July 1983-June 1993, Chair
July 1990-October 1991.
- Member, National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Economics, 9/86-8/88.
- Consultant to Oberlin College (May 1988-October 1988) and to Northeastern University (October 1992) on their faculty
salary and compensation policies, and to the University of Chicago (June 1993) on their tuition aid and budgetary
policies, and to the University of North Carolina (October 1994) on faculty compensation and budgetary issues.
- Member, National Academy of Science/National Research Council Committee on Enlistment Standards, 10/89-12/90;
Panel on Estimation of the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel, November
1994- , Committee on Dimensions, Causes and Implications of Trends in Early Research Careers of Life Scientists,
August 1995- .
- Founding Member, National Academy of Social Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Section, 7/89- .
- Member, Council of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2/90-1/94.
- Member, American Economic Association Nominating Committee, 1992-93, Executive Committee, 1996-99.
- Member, American Economic Association Committee on the Economic Status of Women in the Profession, 1994-
RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
- Faculty Research Grant, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1/71-12/71.
- Faculty Research Grant, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1/73-12/73.
- Research Contract, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research, U.S. Department of Labor,
1/74-9/75.
- Personal Services Contract to prepare a paper evaluating the impact of the Win 2 Program, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 7/74-12/74.
- Research Grant, National Science Foundation - RANN Division, 4/75-3/77 (T. Kochan, principal investigator).
- Research Grant, Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 7/76-9/77.
- Personal Services Contract, New York State Public Service Commission, to study the impact of regulation on wages in
the telephone industry, 1/77-8/77.
- Research Grant, National Science Foundation - Economics Program, 10/77-3/80.
- Research Contract, Minimum Wage Study Commission, 10/79-1/81.
- Research Grant, National Science Foundation, Applied Economics Program, 9/80-2/84.
- Research Grant, National Science Foundation - Economics Program, 8/83-1/86.
- Research Grant, National Science Foundation - Economics Program, 7/1/86-12/31/87.
- Research Grant, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 9/1/86-8/30/87.
- Research Grant, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1/1/88-3/30/90.
- Research Grant, National Science Foundation - Economics Program, 3/88-8/92.
- Research Grant, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 7/1/91-8/30/92.
- Research Grant, William H. Donner Foundation, 7/15/92-5/30/96.
- Research Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 8/1/92-2/1/96.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
- Economic Analyses of Academic Labor Markets
- Historically Black Institutions of Higher Education
- Resource Allocation in Higher Education