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Peter F. OrazemUniversity Professor of Economics, Ph.D. Yale, 1983 M. Phil. Yale, 1980 B.A. with distinction,
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Interests: Labor economics, transition economies, human capital investment, rural labor markets, policy evaluation, applied econometrics
Selected Publications:
· “Schooling
in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy.” Chapter
55 in T. P. Schultz and John Strauss, eds. Handbook
of Development Economics, Volume 4.
· “Agriculture
and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Health.” Chapter
43 in R. E. Evenson and P. Pingali, eds. Handbook of Agricultural
Economics Vol. 3.
· “Child
Labor and School Achievement in
· “Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists.” Southern Economic Journal. 72 (October 2005):284-304. (with Craig Gallet and John List)
· "Long-term Attachments and Long-Run Firm Rates of Return."Southern Economic Journal 71 October 2004. (with Marvin Bouillon and B. Michael Doran).
· " Minimum
Wage Effects on Hours, Employment and Number of Firms: The
· " School
Quality, School Cost, and the Public/Private School Choices of Low Income
Households in
· "Central
Mandates and Local Incentives: The
· "Empirical Tests of Efficiency Wage Hypotheses,"Economica, February 1998. (with T.L. Huang, J.A. Hallam and E.M. Paterno)
· "Male-Female Supply to State Government Jobs and Comparable Worth,"Journal of Labor Economics, January 1998. (with J. Peter Mattila)
· "Winners
and Losers in Transition: Returns to Education, Experience and Gender in
· "Human Capital, Uncertain Wage Distributions, and Occupational and Educational Choices," International Economic Review, February 1991. (with J. Peter Mattila)
· "The Implementation Process of Comparable Worth: Winners and Losers," Journal of Political Economy, February 1990. (with J. Peter Mattila)
Research Details: Complete Listing of Publications, Working Papers (Many of the papers may be downloaded)
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Honors and Past Assignments:
- Challenge Paper Author, Copenhagen Consensus 2008
- Core Team Member, World Development Report 2007, The World Bank
- Koch Visiting Professor of Business Economics, University of Kansas School of Business, 2004-2005
- Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn, Germany, 2004-Present
- Interim Associate Dean,
- Research grants: World Bank, USDA, National Science Foundation, National Research Council, National Pork Producers Council, and Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
- Consultant to the World Bank, 1994-Present and Inter-American Development
Bank, 2001-Present. Research experience in
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Who's Who in
- National Merit Scholar
- Outstanding Senior,
- NIH Traineeship.
Classes:
Go To Economics 101: Principles of Microeconomics Home Page
Go To Economics 320: Undergraduate Labor Economics Home Page
Go To Economics 321: Economics of Discrimination
Go To Economics 521: Graduate Labor Markets Home Page
Go To Economics 322: Collective Bargaining Home Page
Research and Commentary on Ames’ Economic Growth
Data Sets and Appendices
Intermediate Microeconomic Problem Set described in, "Empirical Isoquants and Observable Optima".Review of Agricultural Economics(Fall/Winter, 1998):489-501.
International Agricultural Data
Appendix to "Design, Evaluation, and Sustainability of Private Schools for the Poor: The Pakistan Urban and Rural Fellowship School Experiments"Economics of Education Review(June 2003):265-274.
Appendices to "Rural Population Growth, 1950-1990: The Roles of Human Capital, Industry Structure and Government Policy". American Journal of Agricultural Econmomics 84 (August 2002):615-627. Data Appendix and Supplemental Regression Analysis
Life Beyond Economics
What's going on at the Iowa State Center? Ask Patti!
Economics Department Skits, 1988-2007
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Past Nobel Prize Announcements
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