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: Wednesdays 1-4 and whenever office door is open; also available by appointment
Course Links:  Econ 101 Course Page (from spring 06)

Econ 217 Course Page (from fall 08)

Econ 300 Course Page (from fall 09)

Econ 301 Course Page (from fall 06)

Econ 316 Course Page (from spring 08)

Econ 385 Course Page (from spring 09)

CSS 414 Course Page (from 2007-08)



I am Editor, along with Gil Skillman, of the Eastern Economic Journal, the Journal of the Eastern Economic Association. Here is the information on how to submit articles. Here is the link to the electronic submission website.

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 Publications:
 
"Accommodating Families," Chapter 11 in Labor and Employment Law and Economics, Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Seth D. Harris, and Orly Lobel (eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009.
"Gender Roles and the Division of Labor," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf (eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
"Affirmative Action in America: Procedures and Outcomes," April 2008, conference proceedings, International Conference for Promoting Equal Employment Opportunity for Women, New Paradigm Center, Seoul, Korea.
Queer Economics: A Reader, coeditor with Adam Zeller, New York and London: Routledge, 2007.
"Marriage, Specialization, and the Gender Division of Labor," with Matthew J. Baker, Journal of Labor Economics, October 2007, 25 (4): 763-793.
"A Human Capital-Based Theory of Postmarital Residence Rules," with Matthew J. Baker, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, April 2007, 23 (1): 208-241.
The Economics of Gender, Third Edition, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007.
"Occupational Sex Segregation and the Tipping Phenomenon: The Contrary Case of Court Reporting in the USA," Gender, Work and Organization, March 2007, 14 (2): 130-161.

Some Current Working Papers (drafts--not for citation without permission):
 
"Earnings Inequality Within and Across Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Groups in Four Latin American Countries," with Wendy Cunningham, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4591, April 2008.
"Revisiting the Bell Curve Debate Regarding the Effects of Cognitive Ability on Wages," with Liang Zhao.
"Measuring the Effects of Childbearing on Labor Market Outcomes," with James Wishart Pearce III and Joshua L. Rosenbloom, along with full result tables in excel spreadsheet format .
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