EDUCATION

Ph.D.     Economics       University of Minnesota                             1979

M.A.      Economics       University of Minnesota                             1975

B.A.       Economics       University of Chicago (General Honors)    1973

EXPERIENCE

Professor of Economics, University of Delaware, 2004-present

Visiting Professor, University of Lyon 2, Lyon, France, February-March 2013.

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Delaware, 1989-2004

Associate Professor, University of Delaware/Bulgaria Coalition, Varna and Sofia, Bulgaria, summers 1992-1996.

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Delaware, 1986-1989

Assistant Professor of Economics, The Ohio State University 1980-1986.

Assistant Professor, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1981, 1984.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979-1980.

PUBLICATIONS

“Schooling and Cohort Size: Evidence from Vietnam, Thailand, Iran and Cambodia,” with Thuan Q. Thai, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 18, 4 (October 2018).

“Diffusion of Steam-Powered Firefighting Equipment in the United States: Innovation Adoption at the Municipal Level,” with James G. Mulligan and Burton A. Abrams, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 27, 7 (2018), pp. 652-669.

“Financial System Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies: New Empirical Evidence from the CEE and CIS Countries,” with Laura Cojocaru, Saul D. Hoffman and Jeffrey B. Miller, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 52, 1 (2016), pp. 223-236.

“Child Schooling, Child Health and Rainfall Shocks: Evidence from Rural Vietnam,” with Thuan Q. Thai, Journal of Development Studies, 50, 7 (July 2014), pp. 1025-1037.

“Misclassification of the Dependent Variable in Binary Choice Models: Evidence from Five Latin American Countries,” Applied Economics, 43, 11 (2011), pp. 1315-1327.

“Vintage Effects and the Diffusion of Time-Saving Technological Innovations,” with Nilotpal Das and James G. Mulligan, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 9, 1 (Advances), Article 23, (2009).

“A Quantile Regression Analysis of Wages in Panama,” Review of Development Economics, 12, 3 (August 2008), pp. 498-514.

“Private and Public Sector Wages in Bulgaria,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 32, 1 (March 2004), pp. 56-72.

“The Effect of Survey Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys: Evidence from Peru, Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam,” Journal of Development Economics, 70, 1 (February 2003), pp. 133-157.

“Survey Attrition and Schooling Choices,” with H. Elizabeth Peters, Journal of Human Resources, 33, 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 531-554.

“Responses of Female Labor Supply and Fertility to the Demographic Cycle,” with H. Elizabeth Peters, Research in Population Economics, 8 (1996), pp. 63-89.

Review of “Population and the Economy in an Aging Society,” John Ermisch and Naohiro Ogata (eds.) Southern Economic Journal, 62, 2 (October 1995), pp. 501-503.

Causes of Litigation in Workers’ Compensation Programs, with Charles R. Link and Michael E. Staten (Kalamazoo, Michigan: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1995), pp. xii, 137.

“The Role of Selectivity Bias in Estimates of the Rate of Return to Schooling: The Case of Married Women in Venezuela,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 43, 2 (January 1995), pp. 333-350.

“Schooling Choices and Demographic Cycles,” with H. Elizabeth Peters, Journal of Human Resources, 27, 4 (Fall 1992), pp. 551-574.

“Leveling the Peaks and Troughs of the Demographic Cycle:  An Application to School Enrollment Rates:  A Comment,” with H. Elizabeth Peters, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 73, 3 (August 1991), pp. 572-575.

“Migration and Wages of Young Men,” Journal of Human Resources, 23, 4 (Fall 1988), pp. 514-534.

“An Empirical Study of the Timing and Spacing of Childbearing,” Southern Economic Journal, 54, 2 (October 1987), pp. 287-300.

“A Nested Logit Migration Model with Selectivity,” International Economic Review, 28, 2 (June 1987), pp. 429-443.

“A Model of Occupational Choice,” Research in Population Economics, 5 (1984), pp. 289-307.

Review of “Migration Decision Making,” Gordon F. De Jong and Robert W. Gardner (eds.) Southern Economic Journal, 50, 1 (July 1983), pp. 284-285.

“Migration and Regional Wages,” Southern Economic Journal, 48, 3 (January 1982), pp. 670-686.

“The Determinants of Internal Migration in Peru:  An Economic Analysis,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 27, 2 (January 1979), pp. 327-341.