DARREN HOWARD LUBOTSKY

lubotsky@illinois.edu

http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/lubotsky/

 

211 LIR Building                                                                                   Phone: (217) 333-4295  

504 East Armory Avenue                                                                      Fax:     (217) 244-9290

Champaign, IL 61820                                                                                     

 

 

 

Educational Background:

 

2000                 Ph.D.   University of California at Berkeley

Economics

 

1994                 B.A.     Washington University, St. Louis

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, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

 

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

2005

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, Emerging Scholars Program award recipient

2004

Incomplete List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, fall semester

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

1999­-2000

Graduate Student Fellowship, Burch Center for Tax Policy

Analysis, U.C. Berkeley

1998-1999

Graduate Student Fellowship, Institute for Industrial Relations,

U.C. Berkeley

 

1994-1996

Flood Fellowship in Economics, U.C. Berkeley

1994

Phi Beta Kappa Inductee, Washington University, St. Louis

 

1994

John M. Olin Award for Outstanding Undergraduate in

Economics, Washington University, St. Louis

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 Spain Economics of Immigration Conference, 2003

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

Columbia University, 2005, 2007

Cornell University, 2007

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2000, 2005

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2001

George Washington University, 2002

Georgetown University, 2007

Hunter College, 2002

Illinois State University, 2002, 2006

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 2003

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

Santa Clara University, 2007

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 Davis, 2001, 2007

University of California at Irvine, 2000, 2002

University of California at Los Angeles, 2000

University of California at Santa Cruz, 2007

University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004, 2005, 2007

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

University of Indiana, 2005

University of Kentucky, 2005

University of Maryland at College Park, 2000, 2005

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2006

University of Texas at Austin, 2006

University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty, 2005

                                   

Grants Received:

 

2007-09

National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, $153,000, “The Consequences of Delayed Kindergarten Enrollment” (with Todd Elder) Grant number R03 HD054683

 

2004-05

University of Illinois, Campus Research Board, $2000 for “How Well Do Immigrants Assimilate into the U.S. Labor Market?”

 

2004-05

University of Illinois, Campus Research Board, $7758 for “Understanding Some Trends in Educational Attainment”

 

2002-03

University of Illinois, Campus Research Board, $1000 for “How Well Do Immigrants Assimilate into the U.S. Labor Market?”

 

           

 

Academic Journal Referee and Grant Review Panels

(with number of separate papers reviewed)

 

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2)

American Economic Review (3)

Berkeley Electronic Press (2)

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)

 

Supervision of Graduate Student Research:
 
Principle Advisor

 

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.       Adam Stevenson, Department of Economics, Ph.D. candidate, currently enrolled at UIUC

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, Boston

3.       Clayton Reck, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2004, ERS Group, Florida

4.       Olga Yakusheva, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2005, Assistant Professor, Marquette University, Department of Economics

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.        Veronica Alaimo, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2007, the World Bank

8.        Sarah Jackson, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2007, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

9.       Kandice Kapinos, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Ph.D., 2007, University of Michigan

10.   Niti Pandey, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Ph.D. candidate, currently enrolled at UIUC

11.   Ji-Young Ahn, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Ph.D. candidate, currently enrolled at UIUC

12.   Jason Dunick, Department of Economics, Ph.D candidate, currently enrolled at UIUC

 

University of Illinois Service:

 

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