Overview
At ISU, I supervise graduate students, chair the departmental computer committee, and perform miscellaneous tasks on request by the department's chair
and the LAS college. In addition, I provide service to the economics profession by refereeing submissions to academic journals,
and by chairing sessions and discussing papers at academic conferences.
Graduate student advising
- Mark Senia
- My role: member of M.S. program-of-study committee
- Period: September 2012 to May 2013
- Creative component: No Time to Eat: An Analysis of Eating and Food Preparation Time among Single-Headed Households
- Hang Qian
- My role: member of Ph.D. program-of-study committee
- Period: April 2010 to June 2012
- Dissertation: Essays on statistical inference with imperfectly observed data
- Initial placement: MathWorks, Inc.
- Hailong Jin
- My role: co-major professor, jointly with David Frankel
- Period: March 2010 to April 2011
- Outcome: changed dissertation topic and major professors
Departmental service
- Chair of the departmental computer committee, August 2010 to present
- Member of the departmental computer committee, August 2008 to July 2010
- Member of the departmental graduate student recruiting committee, August 2009 to July 2010
- Member of the departmental FPDA committee, August 2008 to July 2009
Other institutional service
- Member of an LAS college search committee to hire IT support staff, October 2012 to May 2012
- Member of the Family Financial Health Pillar committee: ISU's Integrated, Innovative and Health Initiative, May 2012
- Member of an LAS college search committee to hire IT support staff, August 2011 to March 2012
Professional service
I refereed submissions to the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Journal of Human Resources,
Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Management Science.
I chaired conference sessions and discussed papers at the annual meetings of the
Midwest Economics Association and
Southern Economic Association. Learn more about the conferences I attended on my
research page.
I am a member of the American Economic Association,
Midwest Economics Association, Society of Labor Economists,
and Southern Economic Association.