http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/lubotsky/
211
504
East Armory Avenue Fax: (217) 244-9290
Educational Background:
2000 Ph.D.
Economics
1994 B.A.
Economics, Political
Economy, and Mathematics (minor)
Academic Positions:
2002-Present Assistant Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Economics & Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Department of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
2000-2002 Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Other Professional
Affiliations:
2008-Present Consultant, Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2006-2007 Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2004-Present Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
2002-Present Research Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University & University of Chicago
Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements:
|
2008 |
EGSO Excellence in
Teaching a Field Class award recipient, Department of Economics, University
of Illinois |
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2005 |
University of |
|
2004 |
Incomplete List of
Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students, |
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2003 |
Kenneth
Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics in 2002, awarded by the
International Health Economics Association (with Anne Case and Christina
Paxson) |
|
2002 |
Incomplete List of
Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, fall
semester |
|
2000 |
Public Policy Dissertation
Award, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley |
|
2000 |
W.E. Upjohn Institute
Dissertation Award for Employment Research, Honorable Mention |
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1999-2000 |
Graduate Student
Fellowship, Burch Center for Tax Policy Analysis, U.C. Berkeley |
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1998-1999 |
Graduate Student Fellowship, Institute for Industrial Relations, U.C. Berkeley |
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1994-1996 |
Flood Fellowship in
Economics, U.C. Berkeley |
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1994 |
Phi Beta Kappa Inductee, Washington University, St. Louis |
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1994 |
John M. Olin Award for Outstanding Undergraduate in Economics, Washington
University, St. Louis |
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1994 |
B.A. awarded Summa Cum
Laude |
Published and Forthcoming Papers (click on
hyperlink for PDF file):
Todd Elder and Darren Lubotsky, “Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children’s Achievement: Impacts
of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers” forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.
Darren Lubotsky, “Chutes or Ladders?
A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings,” Journal of Political
Economy, Volume 115, Number 5 (October), 2007, pp. 820-867.
Pablo Ibarraran and Darren
Lubotsky, “Mexican
Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census,”
in Mexican Immigration, George Borjas
(ed.), published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.
Darren Lubotsky and Martin
Wittenberg, “Interpretation
of Regressions with Multiple Proxies,” Review of Economics and Statistics,
Volume 88, Number 3 (August), 2006, pp. 549-562.
Darren Lubotsky, “The
Economics of Employee Benefits,” chapter 2 in Employee Benefits: A Primer for Human Resource Professionals, 2nd
edition, by Joseph Martocchio, 2005.
Darren Lubotsky, “The
Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform,” Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, Volume 57, Number 2
(January), 2004, p. 249-66
Angus Deaton and Darren Lubotsky, “Mortality, Inequality, and Race in
American Cities and States,” Social
Science and Medicine, Volume 56, Number 6 (March), 2003, pp. 1139-1153. An addendum is also
available.
Anne Case, Darren Lubotsky, and Christina Paxson, “Economic Status and Health
in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient,” The American Economic Review, Volume 92, Number 5 (December), 2002,
pp. 1308-1334.
Working papers:
Darren Lubotsky, “The Effect of Changes in
the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants’ Earnings,” August 2007, revise
and resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Invited Lecture and Conference Presentations:
American Economics
Association, Annual Meeting, 2003, 2006
American Education Finance
Association, Annual Meeting, 2007
Bank of
Berkeley National Science Foundation Symposium, 1999
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
2000
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2000
Center for Human Resource
Management, UIUC, 2003
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (Madrid,
Spain), 2003
Federal Reserve Bank of
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2001
Joint Center for Poverty Research, small grant
conference, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association
annual meeting, 2002
Marquette University, 2006
Mathematica, 2000
Michigan State University,
2003
National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999, 2004,
2005, 2006
National Tax Association annual meeting, 2003
North American Meeting of the Econometric Society,
2002
Population Association of America annual meeting,
2002
Princeton University, 2000, 2001
RAND Corporation, 2000, 2002, 2007
Royal Economics Society annual meeting, 2000
Society of Labor
Economists annual meeting, 2005
Southern Economics
Association annual meeting, 2003
University of California at Berkeley, 1998, 2000,
2001, 2006
University of California at Los Angeles, 2000
University of Maryland at College Park, 2000, 2005
University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, 2006
University of Texas at Austin, 2006
University of
Grants Received:
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2007-09 |
National
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2004-05 |
University
of |
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2004-05 |
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2002-03 |
University
of |
Academic Journal Referee and Grant Review Panels
(with number of separate papers reviewed)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2)
American
Economic Review (3)
Canadian
Journal of Economics (3)
Demography
Economic
Inquiry (2)
Economic
Journal
Economic
Letters
Economics
Bulletin (3)
Economics
of Education Review
Health
Economics (3)
Industrial
and Labor Relations Review (8)
International
Economic Review
Journal
of Applied Econometrics
Journal
of Development Economics (2)
Journal
of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Journal
of Health Economics (2)
Journal
of Human Resources (6)
Journal
of Income Distribution
Journal
of Labor Economics (3)
Journal
of Political Economy
Journal
of Population Economics
Medical
Care (3)
The
Quarterly Journal of Economics (4)
The
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
The
Review of Economics and Statistics (7)
Social
Science and Medicine (3)
Southern
Economics Journal
Teaching Summary:
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
2007-2008
Econ 540: Labor Economics, spring (Ph.D. level)
Econ 590-2: Advanced Topics in Labor Economics, spring
(Ph.D. level)
LIR 590-N: Health,
Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace, spring (masters level)
2006-2007
LIR 590-N: Health,
Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace, fall (masters level)
LIR 590-N: Health,
Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace, spring (masters level)
2004-2005
Econ 541: Labor Economics, fall (Ph.D. level)
LIR 590-N: Health,
Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace, fall (masters level)
LIR 590-N: Health,
Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace, spring (masters level)
2003-2004
Econ 440: Labor Economics, fall (undergraduate)
LIR 590-N: Health,
Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace, fall (masters level)
LIR 590-N: Health,
Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace, spring (masters level)
2002-2003
Econ 541: Labor Economics, fall (Ph.D.)
Econ 440: Labor Economics, fall (undergraduate)
Econ 440: Labor Economics, spring (undergraduate)
University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor
2005-2006
Econ 320: Labor Economics, fall (undergraduate level)
SPP 555: Microeconomics A, fall (masters level)
SPP 760: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace,
spring (masters level)
1. Aparajita Zutshi, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2008, Mathematica Policy Research
2.
Erik Sherpf, Department of Economics, Ph.D.
candidate, currently enrolled at UIUC
3.
4.
Marcus Casey, Department of Economics, Ph.D.
candidate, currently enrolled at UIUC.
Committee Member
1. Jeffrey Hemmeter, Department
of Economics, Ph.D., 2004, Social Security Administration
2. Lingjie Ma, Department of
Economics, Ph.D., 2004, Panagora Asset Management,
3. Clayton Reck, Department of
Economics, Ph.D., 2004, ERS Group,
4.
5. Lynn Gottschalk, Department
of Economics, Ph.D., 2005, Federal Trade Commission
6. Carlos Lamarche, Department
of Economics, Ph.D., 2006, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma,
Department of Economics
7.
8. Sarah Jackson, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2007, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
9. Kandice Kapinos,
10. Niti Pandey,
11.
12. Jason Dunick, Department of
Economics, Ph.D candidate, currently enrolled at UIUC
2007-2008
Labor Economics/ILIR seminar
organizer
David Kinley Lecture Organizing
Committee, chair
2006-2007
Department
of Economics Advisory Committee
Labor Economics/ILIR seminar
organizer
David Kinley Lecture Organizing
Committee, chair
2005-2006
Department of Economics/ILIR Junior
Recruiting Committee
2004-2005
Labor Economics/ILIR seminar
organizer
Labor brown bag seminar organizer
Department of Economics Ph.D.
Program Committee member
ILIR Graduate Placement Committee
member
2003-2004
Department
of Economics Ph.D. Admissions Committee member
Labor Economics/ILIR seminar organizer
Labor brown bag seminar organizer
ILIR Graduate Placement Committee
member
2002-2003
Labor
brown bag seminar organizer
Computer
classroom committee
Last updated: July 2008