Profile
In my research, there are four lines that are to some degree interwoven:
- Earnings of and migration among wage employees in less developed countries
- Non-farm self-employment in less developed countries
- Econometric analysis of selectivity models
- Education, job structure, and risk in labor markets in U.S. and the Netherlands
The overarching theme is a focus of the sorting mechanism that generates labor market outcomes in the form of earnings and jobs (or economic activities).
Many papers deal with a developing country labor market, using data from India, Malaysia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Peru, Tanzania, and Vietnam, but the techniques developed in these papers extend to industrial country labor markets as well.
Plans for future research deal with econometric modeling of labor market sorting models; limited dependent variable models; and a study of U.S. job-related data.
Degrees
PhD, Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1981
MA, Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1980
BS, Econometrics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 1975
Past Work Experiences
University of Texas at Dallas, 1986-present
Visitor, Scholar, University of Amsterdam, 1999, 2003
Visitor, IZA, Bonn, 2000
Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, 1985-1986
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, 1984-1985
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 1981-1984
Awards
Best Paper Award, “Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Meta-analysis of the Impact of Education in Industrial Countries,” with Justin van der Sluis and Mirjam van Praag, presented at the 17th Annual Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business (RENT) conference a t Lodz in Poland on November 20-21, 2003.
Professional Organizations
American Economic Association
Chinese Economic Association of North America
Courses
ECO 6309, Econometrics I
ECO 6331, Labor Economics I
ECO 6351, Development Economics
POEC 6V81, Econometrics Lab
Publications
“Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Meta-analysis of the Impact of Education in Developing Countries,” with Justin van der Sluis and Mirjam van Praag, World Bank Economic Review, November 2005, 19:2, 225-261.
“Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoption as a Natural Experiment,” with Erik Plug, Economic Journal, October 2005, 119, 879-906.
“Profit in a Spatial Context: A Monte Carlo Analysis,” with Kurt Beron, in Luc Anselin, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, and Sergio J. Rey, eds., Advances in Spatial Econometrics, 169-195. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004.
“Chow and Wald Tests for Parameter Equality under Conditions of Heteroskedasticity,” with Kyoun-Sup Chung, Korean Econometrics Review, June 2004, 15:2, 27-57.
“Household Enterprises in Vietnam: Survival, Growth, and Living Standards,” with Jonathan Haughton, in David Dollar, Paul Glewwe, eds., Economic Growth, Poverty and Household Welfare: Policy Lessons from Vietnam,” Ch. 4, 95-132, Washington DC: The World Bank, 2004.
“Schooling, Family Backgrounds, and Adoption: Is It Nature or Is It Nurture?” with Erik Plug, Journal of Political Economy, June 2003, 111:3 611-641.
“Why Cooperate? Public Goods, Economic Power, and the Montreal Protocol,” with Kurt Beron and Jim Murdoch, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2003, 85:2, 286-297.
Other Items of Note
Rural Investment Climate Survey project – World Bank
Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2002-2004 – World Bank
- Updated: October 16, 2006
