Economics Faculty


Joyce P. Jacobsen


Office: Public Affairs Center (PAC) 332

Telephone: x2357
    (From off-campus: 860-685-2357)

E-Mail: jjacobsen@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: by appointment; please contact me by email or phone


Course Links:  Econ 110 Course Page (from spring 2011)

Econ 217 Course Page (from fall 2008)

Econ 300/QAC201 Course Page (from summer 2010)

Econ 316 Course Page (from spring 2008)

Econ 385 Course Page (from spring 2011)

CSS 220 Course Page (from 2011-12)




Here is a short version of my Curriculum Vitae. For the full version or for information regarding my consulting assignments, please contact me.

Some Recent Writings:
 
"Closing the Gender Gap: What Would It Take?" The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century, Robert S. Rycroft (ed.), Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012: 177-193.
"The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity, with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology," World Bank Development Report 2012 Background Paper, 2011.
"Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity," Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan (eds.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2011.
"Busway: Serious Rapid Transit," with Christiaan Hogendorn, Hartford Courant, Dec. 26, 2010.

Some Current Working Papers (drafts--not for citation without permission):
 
"Changing Technologies of Household Productions: Causes and Effects," January 2013 chapter draft for book project on Family Economics: Trends in Household Formation, Dissolution and Evolution in the 21st Century.
"Do Babysitters Have More Kids? The Effects of Teenage Work Experiences on Adult Outcomes," with Zeynep Erdogan and Peter Kooreman, IZA Discussion Paper No. 6856, September 2012.
"Neoclassical Models of Imperfectly Competitive Labor Markets," with Gilbert L. Skillman, August 2012 chapter draft for book project on Models of Labor Markets.
"The Great Recession's Impact on Men" and "The Great Recession's Impact on Women," June 2012 chapter drafts for book project on the impact of the Great Recession on poverty in the United States.
"Gender and the Economic Impacts of War," January 2012 chapter draft for handbook project on gender and war.
"A Key Global Challenge: Reducing Losses due to Gender Equality," May 2011 chapter draft for Copenhagen Consensus Center project, along with data and calculation tables.
"Men's Issues in Economic and Social Development," powerpoint from presentation at July 2010 IAFFE Buenos Aires conference, along with full data tables .

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