Education

Yale University
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Economics, 1998
Specialized in Public Finance and Labor Economics
Dissertation: “The Determinants of Education and Child Health: Evidence from Pakistan”

Colgate University
B.A., Economics, Summa Cum Laude, High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, 1993

Research areas

Charity Auctions/Fundraising, Health Economics, Public Finance, Economic Development, Relationship Lending,

Teaching Areas

Health Economics, Microeconomics, Public Finance, Economics of Social Issues, Economics of Sin, Statistics

Professional Experience

2001-present	Middlebury College, Department of Economics, Middlebury, VT Assistant Professor. Courses include “Introduction to Microeconomics”, “Microeconomic Theory”, “Public Finance”, “Health Economics and Policy”, “Economic Statistics”, “Economics of Social Issues”,"Economics of Sin", “Economics of the Law”, “Applied Economics”.
2003-2005	Stern Consulting, Scarsdale, NY Consultant. Aided in the design and implementation of an empirical analysis of hospital Medicare fraud.
2000-2001	Colgate University, Department of Economics, Hamilton, NY Visiting Assistant Professor. Taught “Introduction to Economics” and “Health Economics”.
1998-2000	National Economic Research Associates, Inc., New York City, NY Consultant. Directed projects and drafted expert testimony using economic and statistical analysis in the areas of securities and product-liability litigation.
1996	Yale University, Department of Economics, New Haven, CT. Teaching Fellow: taught several sections of “Introduction to Microeconomics” and “Intermediate Microeconomics”. Research Assistant: for Professors T. Paul Schultz and Joel Waldfogel.
1992	Grand Portage Hotel and Casino, Grand Portage, MN. Blackjack Dealer and Pit boss

Fellowships, Honors, Awards

Awarded (with Jeff Carpenter & Peter Matthews) NSF Grant for $315,000 for research on charity auctions, 2006-2009

Rockefeller Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1997-98

Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1998

J. Melbourne Shortliffe Prize for Excellence in Economics, Colgate University, May 1993

Publications

"Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation" (with Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter H. Matthews) forthcoming at The Economic Journal.

"Prestige, Charitable Deductions and other Determinants of Alumni-Giving: Evidence from a Highly Selective Liberal Arts College" forthcoming at Economics of Education Review.

"Selection and Reporting Bias in Household Surveys of Child Labor: Evidence from Tanzania" 2007 (with Yohanne Kidolezi, Hugo Nopo and Paul Sommers) African Development Review 19(2).

"The Hiring of an Economist: A Case Study" 2007 (with David C. Colander) The American Economist, Spring: 54-62.

"Gender and Graduate Economics Education" 2007 (with David C. Colander) Feminist Economics 13(2):93-116.

"Does Relationship Lending Still Matter in the Consumer Banking Sector? Evidence from the Automobile Market" 2007 (with Jonathan Isham, Ryan Peterson, and Paul Sommers) Social Science Quarterly; 88:2.

“Is George Bailey Dead?” 2007 (with Jonathan Isham and Paul Sommers) Applied Financial Economics Letters;
3(1):19-24.

“Do Community Factors have a Differential Impact on the Nutrition of Boys and Girls? Evidence from Rural Pakistan” 2006 Health Policy and Planning 21:231-240.

"A Capstone Course in Economics: To What, and For Whom?” 2006 (with David C. Colander) forthcoming in Caveat Lector: The Stories Economists Tell, McGraw Hill Publishing.

“Overcoming Information Asymmetries in Low-Income Lending: Lessons from the ‘Working Wheels’ Program” 2005 (with Jonathan Isham and Jessica Wasilewski), Southern Economic Journal, 72(2):329-351.

“Presentation of Pediatric Celiac Disease in the USA: Prominent Effect of Breastfeeding” 2005, (with M. D’Amico, S. Stavropoulos, M. Frederick, J. Levy, A. DeFelice, P. Kazlow, P. Green), Clinical Pediatrics, 44(3):249-258.

“The Determinants of Completed Schooling in Pakistan: Analysis of Censoring and Selection Bias,” 2003. Economics of Education Review, 22:249-264.

“Cheaper by the Dozen? The Marginal Time Costs of Children in the Philippines” 1997 (with Jill Tiefenthaler). Population Research and Policy Review; 16(6):561-578.

Working Papers

“Athletics and Alumni Giving: Evidence from a Highly Selective Liberal Arts College” (with J. Alex Meditz and Paul Sommers) revise and resubmit at Journal of Sports Economics.

“Location, Location, Location! A Classroom Demonstration of the Hotelling Model” (with Lisa Anderson, Dan Lass, Mark Jeffries and Jack Soper) under review.

Professional Service

Referee for American Economic Review, Journal of Development Studies, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Education, The American Economist, International Journal of Manpower, Economics of Education Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Social Science and Medicine, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Games and Behavior

Middlebury College Service

Task Force on Experiential Learning [2005]
Faculty Council (Elected Member) [2004-2005, 2006-2009]
Selection Committee for Washington and Lee Shepherd Summer Internship [2005]
Faculty Mentor to a group of new junior faculty [2004-5, 2007-8]
Co-authored accepted proposal for a new poverty studies minor [2004]
Alliance for Civic Engagement [2003-5]
Optimal Health Committee [2003-2004]
Wharton IRHE Program in Higher Education Executive Training [2003]
Administration Committee [2002-2003]
Recruitment Committee for Tenure-track position in Economics Dept [2002-2003, 2004-2005]
Mellon Task Force on Faculty Development [2001-2002]