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
“Empirical
Evidence of the Effects of Marriage on Male and Female Attendance at Sports and
Arts.” with Sally Montgomery. (March 2010) Social Science Quarteryly.
Vol. 91, No. 1, pp 99-116.
“Increasing
Study Abroad: Participation.” (with Eva Paus) Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal Study
Abroad, Volume XVII, Fall 2008, pp.33-50.
“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