DARREN HOWARD LUBOTSKY

lubotsky@illinois.edu

http://www.ler.illinois.edu/lubotsky/

211 LIR Building                                                                                 Office: (217) 333-4295          

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Champaign, IL 61820                                                                         

 

 

 

I. Personal History and Professional Experience

 

  A. Educational Background:

 

1994                B.A.     Washington University, St. Louis

Economics & Political Economy (majors) and Mathematics (minor)

 

2000                Ph.D.   University of California at Berkeley

Economics

                       

  B. Current Position

           

2008-Present     Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Economics

School of Labor and Employment Relations

Institute of Government and Public Affairs

 

  C. Other Professional Affiliations and Prior Appointments since Final Degree:

 

2000-2002         Postdoctoral Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

 

2002-2008         Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Economics

School of Labor and Employment Relations

 

2002-Present    Research Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University & University of Chicago

 

2004-Present    Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

 

2005-2006         Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy.

 

2008-Present    Consultant, Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

2009-Present    External Research Fellow, Center for Research and Analysis of Migration, University College London

 

  D. Honors and Recognitions:

 

1994

B.A. awarded Summa Cum Laude

1994

John M. Olin Award for Outstanding Undergraduate in

Economics, Washington University, St. Louis

1994

Phi Beta Kappa inductee, Washington University, St. Louis

 

1994-1996

Flood Fellowship in Economics, U.C. Berkeley

1998-1999

Graduate Student Fellowship, Institute for Industrial Relations,

U.C. Berkeley

 

1999­-2000

Graduate Student Fellowship, Burch Center for Tax Policy

Analysis, U.C. Berkeley

2000

W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award for Employment Research, Honorable Mention

2000

Public Policy Dissertation Award, Department of Economics,

U.C. Berkeley

2002

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)

 

2004

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

 

2005

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, Emerging Scholars Program 

 

2008

EGSO Excellence in Teaching a Field Class award recipient, Department of Economics, University of Illinois

 

2008

List of Teachers Rated as Outstanding by their Students, University of Illinois, spring semester

 

2009

EGSO Excellence in Teaching a Field Class award recipient, Department of Economics, University of Illinois

 

2009

List of Teachers Rated as Outstanding by their Students, University of Illinois, spring semester

               

  E. Invited Lecture and Conference Presentations:

 

            1. Invited Lectures

 

“The Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform”

University of California at Berkeley, 1998

Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (Madrid, Spain), 2003

 

“Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings”                      

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2000

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2000

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2000

Mathematica, 2000

Princeton University, 2000

RAND Corporation, 2000

University of California at Berkeley, 2000

                                    University of California at Irvine, 2000

University of California at Los Angeles, 2000

                                    University of Maryland, 2000

George Washington University, 2002

Hunter College, 2002

Illinois State University , 2002

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Economics), 2002

            Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 2003

University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ACES), 2004

Cornell University, 2007

 

“Family Resources, Behavior, and Children’s Cognitive Development”

University of California at Berkeley, 2001

University of California at Davis, 2001

Princeton University, 2001

 

“Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient”

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2001

RAND Corporation, 2002

University of California at Irvine, 2002

 

“Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies”

University of Illinois, 2002

Michigan State University , 2003

 

“Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census”

                                    Columbia University, 2005

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2005

                                    University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005

                                    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005

University of Indiana, 2005

University of Kentucky, 2005

University of Maryland at College Park, 2005

Marquette University, 2006

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2006

 

“Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children’s Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers”

University of California at Berkeley, 2006

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2006

University of Texas at Austin, 2006

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006

Illinois State University , 2006

University of Illinois – Institute of Government and Public Affairs, 2007

Georgetown University, 2007

Columbia University, 2007

RAND Corporation, 2007

Santa Clara University, 2007

University of California at Santa Cruz, 2007

University of California at Davis, 2007

University of Kentucky, 2007

Notre Dame University, 2007

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008

University of Washington at Seattle, 2008

Syracuse University, 2009

 

            2. Conference Presentations

 

 “The Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform”

                                    Berkeley National Science Foundation Symposium, 1999

                                    National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999

                                   

“Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings”

                                    Royal Economics Society annual meeting, 2000

Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association annual meeting, 2002

Bank of Spain Economics of Immigration Conference, 2003

 

“Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies”

North American Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2002

Southern Economics Association annual meeting, 2003

 

“Changes in the Demographics of the U.S. Workforce”         

Center for Human Resource Management, 2003

 

“Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census”

National Bureau of Economic Research Pre-Conference on Mexican Immigration, 2004

National Bureau of Economic Research Main-Conference on Mexican Immigration, 2005

Society of Labor Economists annual meeting, 2005

Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 2005

Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association, 2006

        

“Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children’s Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers”

Society of Labor Economists annual meeting, 2005

National Bureau of Economics Research joint meetings of the Children and Education programs, 2006

American Education Finance Association annual meeting, 2007

 

F. Research Grants:

 

2002-2003       University of Illinois, Campus Research Board, $1000 for “How Well Do Immigrants Assimilate into the U.S. Labor Market?”

 

2004-2005       University of Illinois, Campus Research Board, $2000 for “How Well Do Immigrants Assimilate into the U.S. Labor Market?”

 

2004-2005       University of Illinois, Campus Research Board, $7758 for “Understanding Some Trends in Educational Attainment”

 

2007-2009       National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $153,000, “The Consequences of Delayed Kindergarten Enrollment” (Co-Principle Investigator Todd Elder). Grant # R03HD054683.

G. Review Panels

 

2003

Joint Center for Poverty Research/United States Department of Agriculture (grant proposal review)

United States Census Bureau (two data access proposals)

 

2004

Joint Center for Poverty Research/United States Department of Agriculture (grant proposal review)

National Science Foundation (two grant proposal reviews)

 

2005

Scientific Committee, 5th World Congress, International Health Economics Association

Joint Center for Poverty Research/United States Department of Agriculture (grant proposal review)

National Science Foundation (grant proposal review)

2006

Joint Center for Poverty Research/United States Department of Agriculture (grant proposal review)

National Science Foundation (grant proposal review)

 

2007

National Science Foundation (grant proposal review)

2008

American Educational Research Association (proposal reviewer for 2009 annual conference)

 

H. Academic Journal Referee (with number of separate papers reviewed):

 

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2)

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

American Economic Review (6)

Berkeley Electronic Press (3)

Canadian Journal of Economics (3)

Demography

Economic Inquiry (3)

Economic Journal

Economic Letters

Economics Bulletin (3)

Economics of Education Review (3)

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 (8)

Journal of Income Distribution

Journal of Labor Economics (3)

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Journal of Political Economy

Journal of Population Economics

Journal of the European Economics Association

Labour Economics

Medical Care (3)

Quarterly Journal of Economics (7)

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Review of Economic Dynamics

Review of Economic Studies (2)

Review of Economics and Statistics (10)

Social Science and Medicine (6)

Southern Economics Journal

 

 

II. Publications and Creative Works

 

Note that authors are listed alphabetically in all publications.

 

A. Doctoral Thesis:

 

Darren Lubotsky, “Essays in Applied Labor Economics: Immigrant Earnings and Welfare Reform” Accepted May 2000, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Committee: David Card (co-chair), Hilary Williamson Hoynes (co-chair), Alan Auerbach, and Jonathan Leonard.

 

B. Chapters in Books:

 

1.      Darren Lubotsky, “The Economics of Employee Benefits,” chapter 2 in Employee Benefits: A Primer for Human Resource Professionals, 2nd edition, by Joseph Martocchio, 2005.

 

2.      Pablo Ibarraran and Darren Lubotsky, “Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census, chapter in Mexican Immigration to the United States, George Borjas (ed.), published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.

 

C. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

 

1.      Anne Case, Darren Lubotsky, and Christina Paxson, “Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient,” American Economic Review, Volume 92, Number 5 (December), 2002, pp. 1308-1334.

 

2.      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.

 

3.      Darren Lubotsky, “The Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Volume 57, Number 2 (January), 2004, p. 249-66

 

4.      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.

 

5.      Darren Lubotsky, “Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings,” Journal of Political Economy, Volume 115, Number 5 (October), 2007, pp. 820-867.

 

6.      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, 2009.

 

7.       Angus Deaton and Darren Lubotsky, "Income Inequality and Mortality in U.S. Cities: Weighing the evidence: A Response to Ash and Robinson," forthcoming, Social Science and Medicine, 2009.

 

8.      Darren Lubotsky, “The Effect of Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants’ Earnings,” forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009.

 

D. Book Reviews

 

1.   Review of The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, by Tito Boeri and Jan van Ours, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Volume 52, Number 4, 2009, pp. 620-622.

 

 

III. Teaching and Advising

 

 

A. Teaching Summary and Course Evaluation Results, University of Illinois

 

Semester & Year

 

Course

Enrollment

Question 1

(out of 5)

Question 2

(out of 5)

Fall 2002

Econ 440: Economics of Labor Markets (undergraduate level)

 

67

3.8

3.6

 

Economics 541: Labor Economics (Ph.D. level)

 

5

4.6*

4.6*

Spring 2003

Econ 440: Economics of Labor Markets (undergraduate level)

 

69

4.4

4.3

Fall 2003

Econ 440: Economics of Labor Markets (undergraduate level)

 

59

4.2

4.2

 

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

18

3.9

3.8

Spring 2004

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

30

3.2

3.6

Fall 2004

Economics 541: Labor Economics (Ph.D. level)

 

9

4.9*‡

4.9*‡

 

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

23

4.6*

4.5*

Spring 2005

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

35

4.4

4.5

Fall 2006

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

33

3.5

3.8

Spring 2007

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

34

4.4

4.5

Spring 2008

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

37

3.5

3.8

 

Econ 540: Labor economics

(Ph.D. level)

 

11

4.9*‡

4.8*‡

 

Econ 590-2: Advanced Topics in Labor Economics (Ph.D. level)

5

5.0*‡

5.0*‡

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 2009

LIR 590-N: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace (masters level)

 

48

N/A

N/A

 

Econ 540: Labor economics

(Ph.D. level)

12

N/A

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Named to University of Illinois List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students

‡Score was among the top 10% of instructors on campus.

 

Question 1: “Rate the instructor’s overall teaching effectiveness”

Question 2: “Rate the overall quality of the course”

5 = “Exceptionally high,” 1 = “Exceptionally low”.

 

 

B. Teaching Summary and Course Evaluation Results, University of Michigan

 

Semester & Year

 

Course

Enrollment

Question 1

(out of 5)

Question 2

(out of 5)

Fall 2005

Econ 320: Economics of Labor Markets (undergraduate level)

 

128

4.1

4.2

 

Public Policy 555: Microeconomics A (masters level)

 

70

3.7

3.3

Spring 2006

Public Policy 760: Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace

(masters level)

 

11

4.9

4.9

 

Question 1: “Overall, this was an excellent course”

Question 2: “Overall, the instructor was an excellent teacher”

5 = “Strongly agree,” 1 = “Strongly disagree”.

 
 C. Supervision of Graduate Student Research

 

            Name, department, degree, year of graduation, employment status

 
            Principle Dissertation Advisor

 

1.      Aparajita Zutshi, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2008, Mathematica Policy Research.

 

2.      Adam Stevenson, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2009, University of Michigan

 

3.   Marcus Casey, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2009, Duke University

 

4.      Erik Sherpf, Department of Economics, Ph.D., currently enrolled at UIUC

 

5.      Priscila Deliberalli, Department of Economics, Ph.D., currently enrolled at UIUC.

 

6.      Finley Edwards, Department of Economics, Ph.D., currently enrolled at UIUC.

 

            Member of the Dissertation Committee

 

1.      Jeffrey Hemmeter, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 2004, first position at the University of California at Davis, now at the 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, first position at the Federal Trade Commission, now at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

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, World Bank

 

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

 

9.      Kandice Kapinos, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Ph.D., 2007, Research Scientist, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

 

10.  Niti Pandey, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Ph.D., 2008, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

 

11.  Ji-Young Ahn, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Ph.D., 2008, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

 

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

 

 

IV. University Service

 

A. Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

2002-2003

Organizer of weekly labor economics brownbag lunch

2003-2004

Organizer of weekly labor economics brownbag lunch

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar

Ph.D. admissions committee

2004-2005

Organizer of weekly labor economics brownbag lunch

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar

Ph.D. program committee

2005-2006

Junior recruiting committee

2006-2007

Department advisory committee

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar

2007-2008

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar

Chair of David Kinley Lecture organizing committee

2008-2009

Department advisory committee

Junior recruiting committee

Faculty advisor to the Undergraduate Economics Club

 

 

B. School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

2002-2003

Computer classroom committee

2003-2004

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar (joint with Department of Economics)

Graduate placement committee

2004-2005

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar(joint with Department of Economics)

Graduate placement committee

 

2005-2006

Junior recruiting committee (joint with Department of Economics)

2006-2007

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar (joint with Department of Economics)

2007-2008

Organizer of weekly labor economics seminar (joint with Department of Economics)

 

 

C. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, campus level

 

2008-2009

Graduate College Fellowship Board