Steven Stern at Dept of Economics, University of Virginia

Graduate Student Advising:

Students Who Have Finished

Kun Soo Choi - 5/90. "Wages and Employment Negotiations, and Econometric Tests of the Nash-Zeuthen and Raiffa/Kalai-Smordinsky Bargaining Models."

Seunghee Han - 8/90. "Wages, Amenities and Labor Supply Responses in the Physician Services Market." Placement: Korean Government.

Barbara Steinberg Schone - 1/91. "The Labor Supply Effects of Government Transfers in Cash and in Kind." Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics.

Derek Neal - 1/92. "Inter-Industry Variation in Wages and Turnover." Placement: University of Chicago, Department of Economics.

Michael Palumbo - 5/92. "Health Uncertainty and Optimal Consumption Near the End of the Life Cycle." Placement: University of Houston, Department of Economics.

Richard Shipe - 5/92. "Cost and Productivity in the U.S. Urban Bus Transit Sector, 1978-89." Placement: US Army.

Daniel Zabinsky - 1/94. "Reform of the Tax Preference for Employer- Provided Health Insurance: An Econometric Analysis." Placement: AHCPR.

Amy Crews - 7/94. "Self-Selection and Administrative Selection in the Estimation of the Effects of In-Kind Transfers." Placement: Syracuse University, Public Policy School.

Todd Stinebrickner - 1/96. "A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Teacher Attrition." Placement: University of Michigan (Population Studies Postdoctoral program); Western Ontario University, (permanent).

Catherine O'Connor - 4/96. "Early-Out Incentives: A Case Study of the U.S. Army Officers." Placement: Ohio State University, Department of Economics.

Chris Swann - 4/96. "A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program;" Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Michigan, Department of Economics (Visiting Professor 1 year); State University of New York, Stony Brook (permanent).

Jessica Horewitz - 1/97. "Are Team Owners in the National Football League Profit Maximizers." Placement: Putnam, Hayes, and Bartlett.

Fredrick Holt - 4/97. "The Family's Decision to Migrate: A Dynamic Analysis." Placement: Bureau of the Census.

Allison Ivory - 4/97. "The Effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Labor Supply and Tax Payer Compliance." Placement: Joint Committee on Taxation.

Benjamin Scafidi - 9/97. "Neighborhood, Housing, and School Choice." Placement: New York University, Law School (Research Associate, 2 years); Georgia State University (permanent).

Mikel Ham - 5/98. "Rental Car Service Tenure and Downstream Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry." Placement: Economic Analysis Corporation.

Jose Canals-Cerda - 7/98. "Identification in Search Models;" Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Colorado.

Monica Hartmann - 8/00. "An Examination of Safety Provision and Tax Policy in a Structural Model of the Airline Industry." Placement: St. Thomas University.

Michelle Sheran - 6/01. "The Career and Family Decisions of Women: A Dynamic Analysis of Labor Force Participation, Schooling, Marriage, and Fertility Decisions." Placement: University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Brian McManus - 8/01. "Nonlinear Pricing in an Oligopoly Market: The Case of Specialty Coffee;" IJIO Prize for Best Paper by a Young Economist, Snavely Award for Best Dissertation, Article in Slate. Placement: Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis.

Michelle Goeree - 5/02. "Informative Advertising and the US Personal Computer Market: A Structural Empirical Examination." Young Economist Essay Prize (EARIE) European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, 2003, Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Amsterdam.

Kara Olson Reynolds - 9/03. "The Causes and Consequences of Dumping." Placement: American University.

Jessica Howell - 11/03. "A Structural Equilibrium Model of the Market for Higher Education: Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action." Placement: California State University, Sacramento. (pictures from graduation).

Paul Sullivan - 9/04. "A Dynamic Analysis of Educational, Occupational, and Inter-firm Mobility Decisions." Placement: University of Michigan (Population Studies Postdoctoral program); Bureau of Labor Statistics (permanent).

David Byrne - 5/05. "Unemployment Insurance in an Empirical Sequential Search Model." Placement: Federal Reserve Board.

Kenneth Wilbur - 6/05. "Not All Eyeballs are Created Equal: A Structural Equilibrium Model of Television Advertisers, Networks, and Viewers." Placement: University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.

Loren Smith - 8/05. "Optimal Buying and Selling of Durable Goods: The Case of Commercial Aircraft." Placement: Federal Trade Commission.

Paul Carrillo - 8/05. "An Equilibrium Search Model for Buyers and Sellers and an Empirical Application to the Real Estate Market." Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: George Washington University.

Beth Freeborn - 12/05. "Drug Laws and the Market for Cocaine." Placement: College of William and Mary.

Naoko Akashi - 8/06. "The Effect of Hospitals-Insurers Interaction on Medical Care Pricing." Placement: California State University, Fullerton.

Keith Brand - 10/06. "Equilibrium Product Characteristics in Health Insurance Markets: An Analysis of Medicare+Choice." Placement: Federal Trade Commission.

Marc Santugini - 5/07. "Social Learning in the Motion Picture Market." Placement: HEC Montreal.

Catherine Tyler Mooney - 6/07. "Evaluating the Impacts of Consolidation in the Radio Industry." Placement: University of Oklahoma.

Scott E. Davis - 8/07. "A Structural Model of the Effects of Housing Vouchers on Housing Consumption and Labor Supply." Placement: CNA Corporation.

Sarah Simmons - 11/07. "Welfare (to School?) to Work: How Welfare Reform Affects Collegiate Attainment." Placement: Rhodes College.

Jason Hulbert - 11/07. "A Dynamic Model of Multiproduct Firms: Advertising and Product Selection in the Ready to Eat Cereal Industry."

Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy - 5/08. "A Bad Peace is Better Than a Good War: A Structural Model of Marital Disagreements." Placement: Iowa State University.

Eric Fesselmeyer - 12/08. "Learning and Product Selection: An Empirical Model of Monopoly Behavior." Placement: National University of Singapore.

Jonathan Williams - 3/09, "The Causes and Welfare Consequences of Predation: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of the Airline Industry." Placement: University of Georgia.

Daniel Becker - 4/09, "Tradeoffs Between Wages and Other Job Characteristics With an Application to UI." Placement: Federal Trade Commission.

Students Working on Their Dissertation

John Harris. "A Model of Common-Value Auctions of Shares with an Application to Treasury Auctions." Placement: Chicago Partners.
Elio Valladares. "An Empirical Model of Housing Tenure Choice."
Adam Hyde, "A Structural Model of Physician Behavior."
Rachna Maheshwari, "A Dynamic Analysis of Career and Family Choices of Women."
Uma Radhakrishnan, "A Dynamic Structural Model of Contraceptive Use and Employment Sector Choice for Women in Indonesia."
Gihoon Hong, "U.S. and Domestic Migration Decisions of Mexican Workers."
Chris Clapp, "Should My Car Move or Should We? An Intra-Household Model of Residential and Commuting Choices."
Shuna Wang, "The Entry Deterrence Effect of Authorized Generic Drugs: A Dynamic Reputation Model of a Fighting Brand in the Pharmaceutical Industry."
Kang Jian, "When Are the Tickets Cheapest? A Structural Model of an Airline's Dynamic Pricing under Fixed Capacity."
Haiyan Liu, "Informative Advertising with Signaling Role and Social Learning in the Motion Picture Industry."

Undergraduate Student Advising:

Tennille Checkovich, Associate, McGuire Woods.

Bridget Hiedemann, Associate Professor, University of Seattle.

Petra Todd, Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

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