Wayne A. Grove Professor of Economics, Chair of Economics Department Contact Information:     Economics Department     Reilly Hall 336     Le Moyne College     Syracuse, NY 13214-1399     Phone: (315) 445-4235     grovewa@lemoyne.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research

  I. Education and Labor Market Outcomes

  II. Student Learning

 III. Economic History

 IV. Responsibility Attribution and Voting

   I. Education and Labor Market Outcomes:

"The Gender Pay Gap Beyond Human Capital: Heterogeneity in Noncognitive Skills and in Labor Market Tastes," with Andrew Hussey and Michael Jetter, Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

“Returns to Field of Study versus School Quality: MBA Selection on Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity,” with Andrew Hussey, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

 “Survive Then Thrive: Determining Success in the Economics Ph.D. Program,” Economic Inquiry, 2007, with Donald H. Dutkowsky and  Andrew Grodner.  

 “The Search for Ph.D. Talent: Doctoral Completion and Research Productivity of Economists,” American Economic Review, 2007, with Stephen Wu.

 “Using Admission Outcomes to Control for Selection Bias in Returns to Higher Education Quality,” with Weiwei Chen and Andrew Hussey, submitted for publication.

“Returns to MBA Quality: Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Peers, Faculty, and Institution Quality,” with Andrew Hussey, submitted for publication.

 

  II. Student Learning:

“Incentive and Student Learning,” in Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer Publications, forthcoming, with Lester Hadsell.

“Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics: Class and Instructor Characteristics,” in Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics, with Steve Wu, Elgar Press, forthcoming. 

“Incentives and Learning? A Natural Experiment with Economics Problem Sets,” American Economic Review, 2006, with Tim Wasserman.

“Choosing a Proxy for Academic Aptitude,” Journal of Economic Education, 2006, with Tim Wasserman and Andrew Grodner.

“The Life-Cycle Pattern of Collegiate GPA: Longitudinal Cohort Analysis and Grade Inflation,” Journal of Economic Education, 2004, with Tim Wasserman.

   III. Economic History:

“’Machinery Has Completely Taken Over,’ the Diffusion of the Mechanical Cotton Picker, 1949-1964,^”  Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2008, with Craig Heinicke.

“Labor Markets, Regional Diversity, and Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the Post-WWII U.S.,” Social Science History, 2005, with Craig Heinicke.

“Better or Worse Opportunities?: The Demise of Cotton Harvest Labor, 1949-64,” Journal of Economic History, 2003, with Craig Heinicke.

“The Economics of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the United States, 1920-1970,” Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62:2 (June), 545-549.

"Why Do Banks Fail?  Evidence from the 1920s," Explorations in Economic History, 1994, with Lee Alston and David Wheelock.

IV. Responsibility Attribution and Voting:

“Systematically Biased Beliefs About Political Influence: Evidence from the Perceptions of Political Influence on Policy Outcomes Survey,” with Bryan Caplan, Eric Crampton and Ilya Somin, submitted for publication.