John M Fitzgerald

Department of Economics
Bowdoin College
9700 College Station
Brunswick ME 04011-8497

Telephone:
Office: (207) 725-3593
Home: (207) 729-4965

Citizenship: U.S.A.

Education:

B.A., University of Montana, 1978.
M.S., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1980.
Ph. D. (Economics) University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1983.

Teaching Interests:

Public Economics, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Poverty and Redistribution Programs

Positions Held:

William D. Shipman Professor of Economics, 2006-present
Professor, Bowdoin College, 1997-present.
Associate Professor, Bowdoin College, 1990 to 1997.
Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, 1983-1990.
Honorary Fellow (visiting), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1986-87.
ASA/NSF/Census Fellow, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990-91.

Research Grants and Fellowships:

New Treasury Treasury Visiting Research Fellow;The Impact of the Domestic Purposes Benefit and Family Assistance on Partnering in New Zealand, 2007.
National Institute for Child Health and Development grant for "The Impact of Welfare Reform on Family Structure," 2001-2003.
Joint Center for Poverty Research Small Grant for "The Effect of Welfare Reform on Female Headship Decisions," 1999-2000.
Faculty Leave Supplement, Bowdoin College, 1999-2000.
Joint Center for Poverty Research Small Grant for "Earnings Instability and Family Well-Being," 1997-98.
Keenan fellowship from Bowdoin College, 1996-1997.
National Science Foundation grant to PSID Board of Overseers, with Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt, "A Study of Sample Attrition in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics," 1993.
American Statistical Association/National Science Foundation/ U.S. Bureau of the Census Research Fellowship for "Local Labor Markets, Neighborhood Effects, and Welfare Durations", 1990.
Department of Health and Human Services contract for "Male Labor Market Conditions and Family Formation", 1987-88.
Institute for Research on Poverty Small Grant for "The Determinants of Recipient Duration on AFDC", 1986.
Bowdoin College Faculty Development Fund, 1986-87

Publications:

“Hedonic Estimation and Policy Significance of the Impact of HOPE VI on Neighborhood Property Values” with Edward Bair. Review of Policy Research Vol. 22 Issue 6 (2005) 771-786.

"Mother's Time Spent in Care of her Children and Market Work: A Simultaneous Model with Attitudes as Instuments," with Peter Howie, John Wicks, Doug Dalenberg, and Rachel Connelly. Applied Economics Letters 13:8(2006) 503-506.

"How Much is Leisure Worth? Direct Measurement with the Contingent Valuation Method," with Doug Dahlenberg, Eric Schuck, and John Wicks, Review of Economics of the Household 2:4 (2004): 351-365.

"Transitions in Welfare Participation and Female Headship" with David C. Ribar. Population Research and Policy Review 23 (2004): 641-670.

"Welfare Reform and Female Headship," with David C. Ribar, Demography 41:2 (2004):189-212.

"Measuring the Impact of Welfare Benefits on Welfare Durations: State Stratified Partial Likelihood and Fixed Effect Approaches." Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy Vol. 4, Issue 1, Article 1 (2004).(http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/topics/vol4/iss1/art1)

"Direct Valuation of Personal Care by Households" with Douglas Dalenberg and John Wicks, Population Research and Policy Review 23 (2004):73-89

"Marriage Prospects and Welfare Use." Chapter 11 in Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies edited by Shoshana Grossbard Shechtman. (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 2003.

"Sample Attrition and Panel Data: The Role of Selection on Observables" with Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk, Annales D'Economie et de Statistique No. 55-56 (1999).

"Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History: A Re-examination" with Andreas Ortmann and Carl Boeing, Experimental Economics 3 (2000):81-100.

"An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics" with Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt, Journal of Human Resources 33:2 (Spring 1998):251-299.

"The Impact of Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics," with Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt, Journal of Human Resources 33:2 (Spring 1998):300-344.

Running Hard, Falling Behind: A Report on the Maine Working Parents Survey (Maine Center for Economic Policy: Augusta ME) (1997).

"Valuation of Household Production at Market Prices and Estimation of Production Functions," with John Wicks, Review of Income and Wealth 42(2) (1996):165-180.

"Local Labor Markets and Local Area Effects on Welfare Duration," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 14(1) (1995): 43-67.

"A Hazard Model for Welfare Durations with Unobserved Location-Specific Fixed Effects," Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association , 1992.

"Market Valuation of Household Production" with Ronald Dulaney, Matt Swenson, and John Wicks, Journal of Forensic Economics 5 (2) (1992): 115-126.

"Welfare Durations and the Marriage Market: Evidence from SIPP", Journal of Human Resources 26 (Summer 1991): 545-561.

"Alternative Samples for Welfare Durations in SIPP: Does Attrition Matter?", Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Research Conference , U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington D.C., 1991.

"The Effects of AFDC Benefits and the Marriage Market on Exit Rates from AFDC," in Individuals and Families in Transition: Understanding Change Through Longitudinal Data , U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington D.C., 1989.

"The Impact of Federal Taxes and Transfers on the Distribution of Lifetime Family Incomes", with Tim Maloney, Public Finance Quarterly 18(2) (September 1989): 182-197.

"Measuring the Value of Household Output: A Comparison of Direct Versus Indirect Approaches," with John Wicks, Review of Income and Wealth 36(2) (June 1989): 129-141.

"The Taste for Bequests and the Well Being of Widows: A Model of Life Insurance Demand by Married Couples," Review of Economics and Statistics 71(2) (May 1989): 206-214.

"Measuring Poverty and Crisis: Insights into SIPP Data Quality," with Martin David, published in Proceedings of the Third Annual Research Conference , U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington D.C., 1987.

"The Effects of Social Security on Life Insurance Demand by Married Couples," Journal of Risk and Insurance Vol LIV. (March 1987).

"The Influence of Socioeconomic Characteristics of Elected Representative Bodies on Government Spending Decisions," with John Wicks, Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business 19 (Autumn 1980).

Working Papers and Papers under Review:

"The Impact of Changes in Family Assistance on Partnering and Women’s Employment in New Zealand: A Preliminary Look,” with Tim Maloney. Presented at New Zealand Economics Association Meetings, Christchurch, June 2007.

"The Effect of the Size Distribution of Establishments on Employment andEarnings," with David C. Ribar, 2001.

"Job Instability and Consequences: Evidence from SIPP 1983-1995". Presented at Joint Center for Poverty Research Small Grants Conference, 1998.

"Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good when Partial Contribution is a Dominant Strategy: a Re-examination," with Andreas Ortmann and Kathleen Hansberry, 1997.

"A Study of Sample Attrition in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics" with Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt, December 1997. (An expanded version of the JHR paper; final report to NSF.)

"Substitutability and the Divergence Between Willingness to Accept and Willingness to Pay," with John Wicks, Doug Dahlenburg, and Jim Reardon, 1994.

"The Effect of the Marriage Market on First Marriages: Evidence from SIPP," presented at a University of Chicago Public Policy School Conference on "Welfare Policy and Family Formation", Chicago, 1988. Revised as SIPP Working Paper No. 9003, June 1990, revised 1992.

"The Effect of the Marriage Market on Labor Market Strategies: An Application to Recipient Duration on AFDC," revised 1989.

"Marital Gains from Marriage Reconsidered," with Peter Gottschalk, revised 1989.

"Measuring Poverty and Crisis: A Comparison of Annual and Subannual Accounting Periods Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation," with Martin David, Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper DP #843-87 (November 1987), presented at the American Economics Association Meetings, New Orleans, 1986.

Memberships and Affiliations:

Institute for Research on Poverty Research Associate
American Economics Association
Association of Public Data Users Committee on SIPP, 1993-94.