Michael
D. Robinson
Department
of Economics 26
Hadley St.
Mount
Holyoke College South
Hadley, MA 01075
South
Hadley, MA 01075 (413) 533-5052
(413)
538-3085
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Texas at
Austin. Dissertation: A Regional Analysis of Male-Female Earnings
Differentials. Supervisor: Niles Hansen. May 1987.
B.A. (Economics), Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri. Magna Cum Laude. 1979.
Research Interests
Applied
Microeconomics (Labor)
Applied
Econometrics
Economics
of Higher Education
Areas
of Teaching Interest
Microeconomic Theory/Principles
Labor Economics
Econometrics/Statistics
Women in the Economy
Prizes and
Awards
Meribeth E.
Cameron Faculty Prize for Scholarship, 2004
Experience
2000-Present. Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Massachusetts.
1993-2000. Associate Professor of
Economics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
1995-1998. Senior Advisor to the President on Enrollment Planning, Mount
Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
1988-1992. Assistant Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, South
Hadley, Massachusetts.
Spring 1989. Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Connecticut.
1987-1988. Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont.
Publications
Refereed
Articles
“Which Countries
are Studied Most by Economists? An
Examination of the Regional Distribution of Economic Research,” (with James
Hartley and Patricia Schneider) Kyklos,Vol. 59, Issue 4, Page
611, November 2006.
“The Time Allocation and Earnings of
Artists.” (with Sarah S. Montgomery) Industrial Relations, Vol. 39, No. 3,
July 2000, pp. 525-534.
“Real Wage Performance Under Greater
Trade Openness: Lessons from Latin
America and Asia.” (with Eva Paus) Journal
of Developing Areas,
Vol. 33, Winter 1999, pp.
269-288.
“Gender Differences in Earnings among
Economics and Business Faculty.” (with James Monks) Economic Letters, Vol. 63, No. 1, April 1999, pp. 119-125.
“The Implications of Increasing Economic
Openness for Real Wages in Developing Countries, 1973-1990.” (with Eva Paus) World Development, Vol. 25, No. 4, April 1997, pp. 537-547.
“Scholars and Mentors: The Effect of Psychology Research on
Post-Graduate Attainment.” (with James E. Hartley) Psychological Reports, Vol.
79, December 1996, p. 846.
“Visual Artists in New York: What’s Special about Person and Place?”
(with Sarah S. Montgomery) Journal of
Cultural Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, December 1993, pp. 17-39.
"Union-Nonunion Compensation
Differentials and Industry Structure," (with Albert Ade Okunade and
Phanindra V. Wunnava) Economics Letters,
Vol. 39, 1992, pp. 329-33.
"Sex Discrimination in Non-Wage
Compensation: Pension and Health
Insurance Participation," Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. XVII, No.
3, July-October 1991, pp. 463-468.
"Heteroskedastic Inefficiency in a
Cost Frontier Model: An Application to
Nuclear Power Construction Costs," (with Lucia A. Nixon ‘91) Economics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 4,
September 1991, pp. 413-417.
"Plant Size, Tenure, and
Discrimination in Internal Labor Markets:
Evidence on Sex Differentials," (with Phanindra V. Wunnava) Economics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 2, June
1991, pp. 197-208.
"Applied Bibliometrics: Using Citation Analysis in the Journal
Submission Process," Journal of the
American Society for Information Science,
Vol. 42, No. 4. May 1991, pp. 308-310.
"Union-Nonunion Compensation
Differentials Across Plant Sizes:
Evidence From CPS 1983," (with Albert Ade Okunade and Phanindra V.
Wunnava) Journal of Small Business,
Vol. 2, 1990, pp. 313-317.
"Measuring Direct Discrimination in
Labor Markets Using a Frontier Approach:
Evidence from CPS Female Earnings Data," (with Phanindra V.
Wunnava) Southern Economic Journal,
Vol. 56, No. 1, July 1989, pp. 212-218.
"A Note on Union/Non-Union Benefits
Differentials and Size of Establishment," (with Don Bramley and Phanindra
V. Wunnava) Economics Letters, Vol.
30, No. 1, 1989, pp. 85-88.
"A Logit Model of the All-Electric
Residence Decision," Review of Regional Economics and Business, Vol. 11, No. 2, October
1986, pp. 17-20.
Chapters
in Books
"Discrimination and Efficiency
Wages: Estimates of the Role of
Efficiency Wages in Male-Female Wage Differentials," (with Phanindra V.
Wunnava) in Cornwall, Richard and
Wunnava, Phanindra V. Eds. New Approaches
to Economic and Social Analyses of Discrimination, New York:
Praeger Press, 1991. pp. 55-64.
"Assessing Structural Adjustment
Programs: A Summary of Country
Experience," (with Robin A. King) in Claudon, Michael and John Weeks, Eds.
Debt Disaster? Banks, Government and Multilaterals Confront the Crisis. New
York: NYU Press. 1989. pp. 103-123.
"Debt Rescheduling: Postponing the Crisis?" (with Robin A.
King) in Khosrow Fatemi, Ed. Issues in International Trade and Finance: A North American Perspective, New York: Praeger Press. 1988. pp. 72-85.
Book
Reviews
Review of The New Relationship: Human
Capital in the American Corporation (Edited by Margaret M. Blair and Thomas
A. Kochan) and The Human Firm (by John F. Tomer). Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 27,
No. 2, Spring 2001, pp.248-250.
Review of A Future of Lousy Jobs (Edited
by Gary Burtless) Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4,
October-November 1991, pp. 545-547.
Conference
Proceedings
"The Determinants of Faculty
Salaries in the 1980's: The Impacts of
Sex, Rank, Region, and Local Market Conditions," (with Phanindra V.
Wunnava) Journal of the Southwestern
Society of Economists: Proceedings, Volume 15, Number 1, 1988. pp. 337-343.
"Determinants of Participants in
Conservation Programs," (with Jeffrey I. Rosenblum) Demand-Side
Management Strategies in Transition. Cambridge: Synergic Resources Corp.
June 1987.
"Impacts of Texas-New Mexico Power's
Conservation Information Programs," (with Jeffrey I. Rosenblum and Richard
Bachmeier) Demand-Side Management
Strategies in Transition.
Cambridge: Synergic Resources
Corp. June 1987.
"Debt Rescheduling: Postponing the Crisis?" (with Robin A.
King) in Khosrow Fatemi, Ed. North American Economies in the 1990s:
Proceedings of an International Symposium. June 1987. pp. 307-321.
"REEPS Appliance Choice Parameter
Estimates for Texas," REEPS User
Group Meeting Notes, Cambridge:
Cambridge Systematics, May 1987.
Working
Papers
"Plant Size and Dual Labor
Markets," (with James B. Rebitzer), NBER Working Paper #3587, January
1991.
LECTURES
AND PAPERS DELIVERED
Conference
Presentations
“Experimental Design in Institutional Research: A Folder Reading Experiment at a Selective Liberal Arts College,” (with Cate Rowen, Jane Brown, and Diane Anci) Association for Institutional Research, 2005 Forum, San Diego, CA May 29-June1, 2005.
“A Puzzling Gender Income Differential Among Recent College Graduates,” presented in the panel Gender Differences in the Labor Market (1), American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 5, 2003 (with James Monks).
“Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth In Latin American Manufacturing,” Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, July 4-8, 2001 (with Nola Reinhardt and Eva Paus).
"The Impact of Trade Liberalization on
Productivity Growth," XXIII International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 2001. (With Nola
Reinhardt and Eva Paus.)
“What Becomes of Undergraduate Dance
Majors? A Study of the Five College
Dance Department Graduates” presented
at the 11th Bienniel Conference of the ACEI, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2000
(with Sarah Montgomery).
“Globilization and Labor: The Impact of Direct Foreign Investment on
Real Wage Developments, 1968-1993,” presented at the XX International Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, September 24-26, 1998 (with
Eva Paus).
“Increasing Economic Openness and the
Impact on Labor,” presentation in the Political Economy Seminar at the
University of Massachusetts, Dec. 3, 1996 (with Eva Paus).
“Real Wages and Increasing Openness: Lessons from Asia and Latin America,”
presented at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston.
MA, March 15-17, 1995 (with Eva Paus).
“The Impact of Economic Openness on
Labor: A Comparative Analysis of Latin
America and Asia, 1973-1990,” paper presented at the XIX International Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, September 28-30,
1995 (with Eva Paus).
“Macro and Micro Simulations of a Small
Liberal Arts College,” presented at the
Fourth Annual Conference of the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher
Education, August 1994.
”The Earnings of Male and Female
Artists,” (with Lucia A. Nixon) Presented at the Eastern Economics Association
Meetings, New York, March 1992.
“Who’s Publishing? A Look at Recent Authors in Economics,”
Presented at the Eastern Economics Association Meetings, New York, March, 1992.
“Regional Differences in Labor Market
Structure,” Southern Economic Association Meetings, Nashville, TN, November,
1991.
"The Minimum Wage Poverty Parabola
and Some Evidence," Association for Evolutionary Economics, Session on
Poverty: Problems and Programs in the 1990's, Washington, D.C., December 30,
1990.
“New York Artists: What’s Special about Person and Place?”
(with Sarah S. Montgomery). 16th Annual
Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts, New York, New York, October 11-13, 1990.
"Discrimination and Efficiency
Wages: Estimates of the Role of
Efficiency Wages in Male-Female Wage Differentials," (with Phanindra V.
Wunnava). Eleventh Annual Middlebury
Conference on Economic Issues, New Approaches to the Analysis of
Discrimination, April 6-8, 1989, Middlebury, Vermont. A revised version at the Southern Economic Association Meetings,
Nov. 18-20, 1989.
“Is Discrimination for Males or Against
Females.” The University of
Massachusetts Applied Economics Workshop, Nov. 2, 1989.
"Efficiency Wages and Salaried
Workers Wage Premiums." Eastern
Economic Association Meetings, March 3-5, 1989.
"Measuring Union and Nonunion Wage
Differentials in a World with Wages and Benefits." (with Phanindra V. Wunnava), Eastern
Economic Association Meetings, March 3-5, 1989.
"Plant Size, Tenure, and
Discrimination in Internal Markets:
Evidence on Race and Sex Differentials." (with Phanindra V.
Wunnava), Southwestern Society of Economists, March 8-11, 1989.
"The Economic Impacts of
International Debt Rescheduling." (with Robin A. King), Eastern Economics
Association Meetings, March 10-12, 1988.
"Measuring Discrimination as
Discounts to Stochastic Earnings Frontiers," (with Phanindra V. Wunnava),
Eastern Economics Association Meetings, March 10-12, 1988.
"Conditional Demand Estimates of
Appliance Electricity Consumption in the Southwest U.S." (with Richard Bachmeier), Southwestern Society of Economists, March
3-5, 1988.
"Debt Rescheduling: Postponing the Crisis?" (with Robin A. King), Institute of Latin
American Studies, Student Association Conference, Austin, Texas, April 2-4,
1987.
Talks
and Lectures
“Economics of Gender Discrimination,”
Admissions Master Class, November 1999.
"Measuring Discrimination,"
presented to the Preview Parents, April, 1998.
"Measuring Discrimination,"
presented to the Alumni College, April, 1990.
"Measuring Discrimination,"
presented in Robert Robertson's Human Resource Economics course, Mount Holyoke
College, Feb. 14, 1989.
"Statistical Analysis of
Discrimination," presented in Janice Gifford's Statistics course, Mount Holyoke
College, April, 24, 1989.
Media:
Newspaper
Interviews
Hagenbaugh, Barbara. “More men just say no to working.” USA Today. February 22, 2002.
Wendel, Tim. “Is Hall of Fame Voting Stacked Against Latin Players?” USA Today
Baseball Weekly, July 30-August 5, 1997.
Tim Sullivan. Op-Editorial. The
Cincinnati Inquirer. Thursday July
31, 1997.
Radio
Appearances
Interviewed with James Monks and Arna Desser by Bob Paquette
of WFCR about discrimination in Hall of Fame Voting, April 7, 1997.
Television
Appearances
Guest on New England Cable News
discussing financial aid at Mount Holyoke and other colleges, April, 1997.
Interviewed with James Monks by Lydia
Kubiak of WGGB, Springfield, Ma. about the earnings of women in the U.S.
September, 1997.
Editorials
Confessions of a Trader. Mount Holyoke News. Thursday, December 9,
1999.
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities
Articles reviewed for: Southern
Economic Journal, American Economist,
Review of Economics and Statistics, Social Science Quarterly, World
Development, Journal of Sports Economics, Economics of Education Review.
Introductory Text reviewed for MacMillan.
Intermediate Microeconomics Text, Econometrics Text and Women in the Economy
Text reviewed for Addison-Wesley.
Organizations
Member, American Economic Association,
Eastern Economic Association.
Testing, testing, testing, Michael
Robinson