CURRENT POSITION

Boswell Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College (2009 – present)

Chair, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College (2011 – present)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, Claremont McKenna College (2008 – 2012)

Interim Director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, Claremont McKenna College (2007 – 2008)

Boswell Associate Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College (2007 - 2009)

Associate Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College (2005 - 2007)

Associate Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University (2006 - 2007)

Assistant Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College (2001 - 2005)

Assistant Professor of Economics, Illinois State University (1999 - 2001)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000 - 2001)

Lecturer, McMaster University, (Spring 1998, Spring 1999)

EDUCATION

McMaster University – Ph.D. Economics, 1999

Queen’s University – M.A. Economics, 1994

Queen’s University – B.A. (Honors) Economics, 1992

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Glenn R. Huntoon Teaching Award, Claremont McKenna College, 2008

Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, Germany, 2004 - present

Research Fellow, Metropolis British Columbia (MBC), Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia, BC, Canada, 2005 - present

“European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Labour Economics Prize” for the best paper published in Labour Economics during the period 2000-2001

Visiting Research Fellow, Australian National University, Summer 2000

Research Fellow, Canadian International Labour Network (CILN), McMaster University, 1996-1998

Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University, 1994-1998

Graduate Scholarship, Queen’s University, 1992-1993

RESEARCH FUNDING

SSHRC Standard Research Grant ($50,000)*, 2007

CMC Summer Research Grant, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

CMC Summer Research Grant for Teaching on Diversity, 2003

Berger Institute Summer Research Grant, 2002

Lowe Institute Summer Research Grant, 2008, 2009, 2010

* This grant, while awarded, had to be declined due to my departure from Simon Fraser University.

PUBLISHED PAPERS

“The Early Decision Option in College Admission and its Impact on Student Diversity,” (with Janet Kiholm Smith), Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming.

“Labor Supply Differences Between Married Heterosexual Women and Partnered Lesbians: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach,” (with Michael Steinberger), Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

“The Opt-Out Revolution: Recent Trends in Female Labor Supply,” Research in Labor Economics, 33, 2011, 45-83.

“The Effect of Community-Level Socio-Economic Conditions on Threatening Racial Encounters,” (with Deborah Cobb-Clark), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40 (6), November 2010, 517-529.

“Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military,” (with Deborah Cobb-Clark), Journal of Population Economics, 22 (3), July 2009, 713-738.