Ronald Ehrenberg

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Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics Emeritus
Economics
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Ives Hall, Room 271
Ithaca, NY 14950
United States

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607-255-3026
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607-255-4496
CV
ehrenberg-vita-4-21.pdf
Websites
http://faculty.cit.cornell.edu/rge2/
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cheri
Overview

Ronald G. Ehrenberg is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. He also is Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. From July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1998 he served as Cornell’s Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting.

Ehrenberg served as an elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2010. Governor David Paterson nominated him for membership on the SUNY Board of Trustees in May 2009. His appointment was confirmed by the New York State Senate in March 2010 and he served on the Board until June 2017. He chaired the Board's Academic Affairs Committee and was a member of its Executive, Communications and External Affairs, Finance and Administration, Research and Economic Development, and system wide provost search committees. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) in 1966, M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1970, an Honorary Doctor of Science from SUNY in 2008, and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Penn State University in 2011. A member of the Cornell faculty for 45 years, Ehrenberg has authored or co-authored over 160 papers and authored or edited 26 books.

Ehrenberg was the founding editor of Research in Labor Economics, and served a ten-year term as co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources. He has served, or is serving, on several editorial boards and as a consultant to numerous governmental agencies and commissions and university and private research corporations. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at IZ A (Berlin), was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association, chaired the AAUP Committees on Retirement and the Economic Status of the Profession, and is Past President of the Society of Labor Economists. He also chaired the National Research Council's Board of Higher Education and served on its committee on Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty Measuring Higher Education on Productivity and Research Universities committees, on the NACUBO Endowment Advisory Panel and on The College Boards Rethinking Student Aid Study Group.

Currently, he is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the TIAA-CREF Institute, the American Educational Research Association,and the Labor and Employment Relations Association; a member of the National Academy of Education; and a National Associate of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. The Society of Labor Economists presented him with the Jacob Mincer Award, in 2011, for lifetime contributions to the field of labor economics. In 2013, the Association for the Study of Higher Education presented him with the Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award for advancing the field through extraordinary scholarship, leadership and service. In recognition of all of his achievements and contributions to Cornell University, in 2014 Cornell honored him by creating the Ronald G. Ehrenberg Professorship in Labor Economics position at the university. In 2015, he awarded the Glenn G. Bartle Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Binghamton University Alumni Association. In April 2018, he was named a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. 

Coauthor of the leading textbook, Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy (13th ed.), his recent research has focused on higher education issues. He is the editor of American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species (Cornell University Press, 1997) and the author of Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much (Harvard University Press, 2002). He is the editor of Governing Academia (Cornell University Press, 2004), and What's Happening to Public Higher Education? (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and co editor of Science and the University (University of Wisconsin Press,2007) and Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future (Cornell University Press, 2008). Ehrenberg is a coauthor of Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities (Princeton University Press, 2010)

Ehrenberg has supervised the dissertations of 51 Ph.D. students and served on committees for countless more. He is also passionate about undergraduate education, involves undergraduate students in his research, and has co-authored papers with a number of these undergraduates. In 2003, ILR-Cornell awarded him the General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Undergraduate Teaching.In 2005, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest award for undergraduate teaching that exists at Cornell.

Finally, Ehrenberg has served as a consultant to faculty and administrative groups and trustees at a number of colleges and universities on issues relating to tuition and financial aid policies, faculty compensation policies, faculty retirement policies, and other budgetary and planning issues. Among the institutions he has worked with are Brandeis University, Oberlin College, Northeastern University, The University of North Carolina, the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, the U.S. Naval Academy, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Smith College, the Suffolk University Law School, Albany University (SUNY), George Washington University, the University of Akron, and University of Vermont, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Finally, Ehrenberg has served as a consultant to faculty and administrative groups and trustees at a number of colleges and universities on issues relating to tuition and financial aid policies, faculty compensation policies, faculty retirement policies, and other budgetary and planning issues. Among the institutions he has worked with are Brandeis University, Oberlin College, Northeastern University, The University of North Carolina, the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, the U.S. Naval Academy, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Smith College, the Suffolk University Law School, Albany University (SUNY), George Washington University, the University of Akron, the University of Vermont, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Teaching Statement 

My primary teaching interest is the economics of the university class where I talk about the various resource allocation decisions that Cornell must make and then bring in high level university administrators to talk about the issues they are facing.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , , & . . In Pursuit of Tenure Track Faculty Positions: Career Progression and Satisfaction of Humanities and Social Science Doctorates. Review of Higher Education, 42(Summer 2019), 1309-1336.
  • , , & . . The Increasing Stratification of Faculty Employment at Colleges and Universities in the United States. Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 26(1), 73-97.
  • , & . . Are High Quality PhD Programs at Universities Associated with More Undergraduate Students Pursuing PhD Study.
  • . . Coauthors and Collaborators. American Economist, 62(March 2017), 3-18.
  • . . Financial Aid and Development Policies.
  • , , , & . . An Evaluation of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship's Effect on PhD Production. Economics of Education Review, 53(August 2016), 284-296.
  • , , , & . . Do Administrators' Disciplinary Backgrounds Influence Humanities Departments' Staffing Patterns. Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Working Paper.
  • , , , & . . Increasing the Share of Female Faculty within Humanities Departments: Does the Gender of University Leaders Matter?. CHERI Working Paper.
  • , , & . . Changing Faculty Employment at Four-Year Colleges and Universities. CHERI Working Paper.
  • , , & . . Differences in Post College Aspirations: Evidence from the NLSF. CHERI Working Paper.
  • . . The Arizona State Global Freshman Academy. Change, 47(6), 14-17.
  • . . Coauthors and Collaborations. CHERI Working Paper 160 (submitted for publication), 31.
  • , & . . University Endowment Growth';Assessing Policy Proposals. Education Finance and Policy (under second review).
  • . . What's the Future of Public Higher Education: A Review Essay on "Public No More". Journal of Economic Literature, 52(4), 1142-1150.
  • . . American Law Schools in a Time of Transition. Journal of Legal Education.
  • , , & . . Decompsing the Dispersion of Higher Education Endowments. Educational Finance and Policy.
  • , , & . . `Faculty Members on Boards of Trustees. Academe, 99(3), 13-18.
  • . . Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over? . Change, 45, 16-23.
  • , , , & . . Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program. Research in Labor Economics, 36, 159-190.
  • , , , , & . . Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines; Do Trustees and Administrators Matter?. Economics of Education Review, 31(February), 9-18.
  • . . American Higher Education in Transition. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(1), 193-216.
  • , , & . . Dissecting the Workforce and Workplace for Clinical Endocrinology and the Work of Endochronologists Early in Their Careers. journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 96.
  • . . Analyzing the Factors that Influence Persistence Rates in STEM Field Majors: Introduction to the Symposium. Economics of Education Review, 29(6), 888-891.
  • , , & . . Analyzing the Workforce and the Workplace for Rheumatology and the Research Activity of Rheumatologists Early in Their Careers. arthritis and rheumatism, 62(12), 3528-3536.
  • , & . . Do Expenditures Other than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education. Economics of Education Review, 29(6), 947-958.
  • . . Financing and Restructuring Graduate Education in the Future. Communicator (Council of Graduate Schools), 43(9), 1-3.
  • , & . . Faculty Employment and R&D Expenditures at Research Universities. Economics of Education Review, 29(3), 543-552.
  • , & . . Student Services Expenditures Matter. Change Magazine, 42(3), 36-39.
  • , , , & . . Educating Scholars: Implications for Graduate Deans. Communicator (Council of Graduate Schools), 43(1), 6-7.
  • , & . . Females on Academic Boards of Trustees: Slow But Steady Progress. Trusteeship, 17(2), 34-35.
  • , & . . Recent Trends in Funding for the Academic Humanities and Their Implications. Daedalus, 138(1), 124-146.
  • , & . . The Common Application When Competitors Compete. Change, 41(1), 48-53.
  • , , , , & . . Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Eduation. Economics of Education Review, 27(2), 111-124.
  • , , , , & . . Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 29(2).
  • , , & . . PhD Attainment of Graduates of Selective Private Academic Institutions. Education Finance and Policy, 2(1), 100-110.
  • , , & . . Why Do Field Differentials in Average Faculty Salary Vary Across Universities?. Economics of Education Review, 25(3).
  • , , & . . Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Determinants of Title IX Compliance. Journal of Higher Education, 77(2), 225-250.
  • , , & . . Crafting A Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Low Income Students. Review of Higher Education, 29(2), 195-211.
  • . . The Perfect Storm and the Privatization of Higher Education. Change, 38(1), 46-53.
  • . . Going Broke by Degree: A Review Essay. Journal of Labor Research, 26(4), 739-752.
  • . . Method or Madness? Inside the USNWR College Rankings. Journal of College Admissions, 189, 29-35.
  • , & . . Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter. Journal of Human Resources, 40(3), 647-659.
  • . . Why Universities Need Institutional Researchers and Institutional Researchers Need Faculty Members More Than Both Realize. Research in Higher Education, 46(3), 349-363.
  • . . Changes in the Academic Labor Market for Economists. Journal of Economic Perspectives.
  • . . Econometric Studies of Higher Education. Journal of Econometrics, 121(1), 19-37.
  • , & . . Financial Forces and the Future of American Higher Education. Academe, 90(4).
  • , , , & . . Why Do Budget Referenda Fail?. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 26(2), 111-125.
  • . . Don’t Blame Faculty for Increasing Tuition: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. Academe, 90(2), 20-46.
  • , & . . Analyzing the success of student transitions from 2- to 4-year institutions within a state. Economics of Education Review, 23(1).
  • , & . . Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 57(1), 92-104.
  • , & . . The Sources and Uses of Giving at Selective Private Research Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. Economics of Education Review, 22(3).
  • . . Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market. Journal of Labor Economics, 21(2), 267-287.
  • . . Unequal Progress: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. Academe, 89(2).
  • . . Reaching for the Brass Ring: The U.S. News & World Report Rankings and Competition. Review of Higher Education, 26(2), 145-162.
  • , , , & . . Does Class Size Matter?. Scientific American, 285(5), 78-85.
  • . . Faculty Retirement Policies After the End of Mandatory Retirement. TIAA-CREF Report, Dialogue No. 69.
  • , , & . . Paying Our Presidents: What Do Trustees Value?. Review of Higher Education, 25(1), 15-37.
  • . . Career's End: A Survey of Faculty Retirement Policies. Academe, 87(4).
  • . . Don't Shy From Retirement Questions. Trusteeship, 9(4), 8-13.
  • , & . . Has the Growth of Science Crowded Out Other Things at Universities?. Change, 33(4), 46-51.
  • , , , & . . Class Size and Student Achievement. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2(1), 1-30.
  • . . Will Trustees Tame Tuition?. Trusteeship, 9(1), 8-12.
  • , & . . Ivy League Athletic Performance: Do Brains Win?. Journal of Sports Economics, 1(2), 139-150.
  • . . Financial Forecasts for the Next Decade. The Presidency.
  • , & . . U.S. News and World Report College Rankings: Why Do They Matter?. Change, 31(6).
  • . . The Changing Distribution of New Ph.D. Economists and Their Employment: Implications for the Future. Journal of Economic Perspectives.
  • . . No Longer Forced Out: How One Institution is Dealing with the End of Mandatory Retirement. Academe, 85(3).
  • . . My Life and Economics. American Economist, 43(1).
  • . . Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13(1), 99-116.
  • , , & . . Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Cross-Cohort Evidence on the Effects of College Type on Earnings. Journal of Human Resources, 34(1), 104-123.
  • . . In Pursuit of Universitywide Objectives. Change, 31(1), 28-31.
  • , , & . . Do Economics Departments with Lower Tenure Probabilities Pay Higher Faculty Salaries. Review of Economics and Statistics, 80(4), 503-512.
  • , , & . . Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Evidence on the Effects of Undergraduate College Quality on Graduate School Attendance. Economics of Education Review, 17(4).
  • , & . . The 1995 NRC Rankings of Graduate Programs: A Hedonic Model (expanded technical version of the 1996 Change article). Economics of Education Review.
  • , & . . Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College?. Research in Labor Economics, 15.
  • , & . . The 1995 NRC Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model. Change, 28(3), 46-50.
  • . . Are Black Colleges Producing Today's African-American Lawyers?. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 14, 117-119.
  • , & . . Do Doctoral Students' Financial Support Patterns Affect Their Times to Degree and Completion Probabilities?. Journal of Human Resources, 30(3), 581-609.
  • , , & . . Do Teachers' Race, Gender and Ethnicity Matter?: Evidence From NELS88. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 48.
  • , & . . Did Teachers' Verbal Ability and Race Matter in the 1960's?: Coleman Revisited. Economics of Education Review, 14(1).
  • , & . . Do School and Teacher Characteristics Matter? Evidence From High School and Beyond. Economics of Education Review, 13(1), 1-17.
  • , , & . . Institutional Responses to Increased External Support for Graduate Students. Review of Economics and Statistics, 75(4), 671-682.
  • , & . . What Price Diversity? The Death of Need-Based Financial Aid at Selective Private Colleges?. Change.
  • . . The Flow of New Doctorates. Journal of Economic Literature, 30(2), 830-875.
  • , , & . . Faculty Turnover at American Colleges and Universities. Economics of Education Review, 10(2).
  • , , , & . . School District Leave Policies, Teacher Absenteeism, and Student Achievement. Journal of Human Resources.
  • , & . . Do Tournaments Have Incentive Effects?. Journal of Political Economy.
  • , & . . Why WARN?. Regulation.
  • , & . . The Incentive Effects of Tournaments Revisited: Evidence From the European PGA Tour. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43(3), 74S-88S.
  • . . An Economic Analysis of the Market for Law School Students. Journal of Legal Education, 35(5).
  • , & . . Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation: Do They Matter?. Industrial Relations.
  • , , & . . Determinants of the Compensation and Mobility of School Superintendents. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 41(3), 386-401.
  • , & . . Comparable Worth Wage Adjustments and Female Employment in the State and Local Sector. Journal of Labor Economics, 5(1), 43-62.
  • , & . . Effects of In-College Employment on Academic Achievement and Post-College Outcomes: A Summary of Results. Journal of Human Resources, 22(1), 1-23.
  • . . Workers' Rights: Rethinking Protective Labor Legislation. Research in Labor Economics, 8(Part B).
  • , & . . The Social Security Student Benefit Program and Family Decisions. Economics of Education Review, 5(2), 119-128.
  • , , & . . Cost of Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts. Research in Labor Economics, 6.
  • , & . . Compensating Wage Differentials for Mandatory Overtime. Economic Inquiry.
  • , & . . Optimal Financial Aid Policies for a Selective University. Journal of Human Resources, 19(2), 202-230.
  • , , & . . Cost of Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts: A Summary of Results. Journal of Labor Economics, 1(3), 215-245.
  • , , & . . Unions and Productivity in the Public Sector: A Study of Municipal Libraries. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 36(2), 199-213.
  • , & . . Compliance With the Overtime Pay Premium. Journal of Law and Economics.
  • , & . . Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment and Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model. Journal of Human Resources, 17(1), 39-58.
  • . . Comments on E. G. West and R. J. Staaf. Public Choice, 36, 641-645.
  • , & . . Estimating the Narcotic Effects of Public Sector Impasse Procedures. Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
  • , & . . Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth. Research in Labor Economics, 3.
  • . . The Demographic Structure of Unemployment Rates and Labor Market Transition Probabilities. Research in Labor Economics, 3.
  • . . The Economics of the Decision to Join a Union: Comment. Journal of Labor Research.
  • . . Correlates of Underfunding of Public Sector Retirement Systems. Economic Inquiry.
  • . . Retirement System Characteristics and Compensating Wage Differentials in the Public Sector. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 33(4), 470-483.
  • , & . . Who Pays for Pensions in the State and Local Sector: Workers or Employers?. Industrial Relations Research Association Proceedings, 57-63.
  • . . An Evaluation of Two Evaluations. Research in Labor Economics, 1(supplement).
  • , & . . The Costs of Defined Benefit Plans and Firm Adjustments. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
  • . . The Effect of Tax Limitation Legislation on Public Sector Labor Markets: A Comment. National Tax Journal.
  • , , & . . Has Labor Economics Been Useful?. Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
  • . . The Impact of Win 2: Reply. Journal of Human Resources.
  • . . Household Allocation of Time and Religiosity: Replication and Extension. Journal of Political Economy, 85(2), 415-423.
  • , & . . Officer Compensation and Performance in Local Building Trade Unions. Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
  • , & . . Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gains. American Economic Review.
  • , & . . Executive Compensation in Municipalities. Southern Economic Journal, 43(1), 937-947.
  • , & . . The Impact of the Win 2 Program on Welfare Costs and Recipient Rates. Journal of Human Resources, 11(2), 219-232.
  • , & . . A Model of Public Sector Wage Determination. Journal of Urban Economics.
  • , & . . Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance. Journal of Political Economy, 83(1), 27-56.
  • . . Organizational Control and the Economic Efficiency of Hospitals: The Production of Nursing Services. Journal of Human Resources.
  • . . Heterogeneous Labor, Minimum Hiring Standards and Job Vacancies in Public Employment. Journal of Political Economy.
  • . . Municipal Government Structure, Unionization, and the Wages of Fire Fighters. Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
  • . . Relative Wages, Incremental Budgeting and the Demand for State and Local Government Employees. American Economic Review.
  • . . The Impact of the Overtime Premium on Employment and Hours in U.S. Industry. Western Economic Journal.
  • . . Heterogeneous Labor, the Internal Labor Market, and the Dynamics of the Employment-Hours Decision. Journal of Economic Theory.
  • . . Absenteeism and the Overtime Decision. American Economic Review.

Books

  • , & . . Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future (Chinese Translation). Beijing Institute of Technology Press.
  • , , , & . . Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities. Princeton University Press.
  • , & . . Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future. Cornell University Press.
  • . . Science and the University (co-editor). University of Wisconsin Press.
  • . . Transformational Change in Higher Education: Positioning Colleges and Universities for Future Success (co-editor). Edward Elgar.
  • . . What’s Happening to Public Higher Education (editor). AGE/Praeger Series on Higher Education.
  • . . Governing Academia (editor). Cornell University Press.
  • . . Maximizing revenue in higher education (co-editor). Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • . . Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much. Harvard University Press.
  • . . The American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? (editor). Cornell University Press.
  • . . Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in Education (editor). ILR Press.
  • . . Labor Markets and Integrating National Economies. The Brookings Institution.
  • , , , & . . Economic Challenges in Higher Education. University of Chicago Press.
  • . . Do Compensation Policies Matter? (editor). ILR Press.
  • , & . . Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
  • , , , & . . Economics of the Employment Relationship. Scott Foresman.
  • , , & . . Labor Economics and Labor Relations. Scott, Foresman.
  • , & . . Longer Hours or More Jobs?. NYSSILR Publications Division.
  • . . The Regulatory Process and Labor Earnings. Academic Press.
  • . . The Demand for State and Local Government Employees: An Economic Analysis. Lexington Books.
  • . . Fringe Benefits and Overtime Behavior: Theoretical and Econometric Analysis. Lexington Books.

Textbooks

  • , & . . Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy. Routledge, 2017.

Magazine Publications

  • . . "Nancy Zimpher: Perceptions from an Unusual SUNY Trustee".
  • . . The Arizona State Global Freshman Academy. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.
  • , & . . The Other Debt Crisis. Cornell Alumni Magazine, 116(3), 46-51.

Book Chapters

  • . . Coauthors and Collaborators in Labor Economics-. In Collaborative Research in Economics: The Wisdom of Working TogetherTogether. (pp. 227-250). Palgram McMillan.
  • . . Faculty in American Higher Education. In Encyclopedia of Education Economics & Finance. (pp. 329-333). Sage Reference.
  • . . Faculty in American Higher Education. In Encyclopedia of Education Economics & Finance. (pp. 329-333). Sage Reference.
  • . . Tuition and Fees, Higher Education. In Encyclopedia of Education Economics & Finance. (pp. 801-810). Sage Reference.
  • . . A Perspective on the Rising Costs of Higher Education. In The Rising Costs of Higher Education: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO Publlishers.
  • . . Rethinking the Professoriate. In Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation. (pp. 101-128). Harvard Education Press.
  • . . The Economics of Tuition and Fees in Higher Education. In The International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd Edition). Elsevier.
  • . . Generation X: Redefining the Norms of the Academy. In Generational Shockwaves and the Implications for Higher Education. (pp. 30-40). Edward Elgan.
  • , , , & . . The Graduate Education Initiative; Description and Preliminary Findings. In Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future. Cornell University Press.
  • . . Policy Considerations for Enhancing Student Access and Persistence in a World in Which Tuition Keeps Rising. In The New Role of Higher Education Attainment in Global Competitiveness and Income Opportunity. Aspen Institute.
  • . . Reducing Inequality in Higher Education: Where Do We Go From Here?. In Economic Inequality and Higher Education: Access, Persistence, and Success. Russell Sage Foundation.
  • , , & . . Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science. In Science and the University. University of Wisconsin Press.
  • . . The Changing Nature of the Faculty and Faculty Employment Practices. In The New Balancing Act in the Business of Higher Education. Edward Elgar.
  • . . Key Issues Facing American Higher Education. In Higher Education in Canada. McGill-Queens University Press.
  • , & . . The Changing Nature of Faculty Employment. In Recruitment, Retention and Retirement: The Three R’s of Higher Education in the 21st Century. Edward Elgar.
  • , , , & . . Collective Bargaining in American Higher Education. In Governing Academia. Cornell University Press.
  • . . Does America Face a Shortage of Scientists and Engineers?. In The U.S. Scientific and Technical Workforce: Improving Data for Decision Making. Rand Corporation.
  • . . Resident and Non-Resident Tuition and Enrollment at Flagship State Universities. In College Choice: The Economics of Which College, When College, and How To Pay For It. University of Chicago Press.
  • , & . . The Sources and Uses of Annual Giving at Private Research Universities. In Maximizing revenue in higher education. Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • . . The Supply of American Higher Education Institutions. In Ford Policy Forum 2001: Exploring the Economics of Higher Education. Forum for the Future of Higher Education.
  • . . Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much. In Forum Futures - Exploring the Future of Higher Education: 2000 Papers. Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • , , & . . Cornell University Confronts the End of Mandatory Retirement. In To Retire or Not: Retirement Policy and Practice in Higher Education. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • , , & . . Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths?. In A Nation Divided. Cornell University Press.
  • . . The American University: Dilemmas and Directions. In The American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species?. Cornell University Press.
  • , , , , , & . . 10. The Academic Departments. In The ILR School at Fifty: Voices of the Faculty, Alumni & Friends. (pp. 165-194). Cornell University.
  • , & . . Do Historically Black Institutions of Higher Education Confer Unique Advantages on Black Students: An Initial Analysis. In Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in Education. ILR Press.
  • , , & . . How Would Universities Respond to Increased Federal Support for Graduate Students. In Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education. (pp. 183-206). University of Chicago Press.
  • , & . . Why WARN? The Impact of Recent Plant-Closing and Layoff Prenotification Legislation in the United States. In Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior. ILR Press.
  • . . Academic Labor Supply. In Economic Challenges in Higher Education. University of Chicago Press.
  • , , & . . Are School Superintendents Rewarded for Performance?. In Micro Level School Finance: Issues and Implications for Policy. American Educational Finance Association Yearbook.
  • , & . . On Estimating the Effects of Increased Aid to Education. In The Public Sector Look of American Unions. University of Chicago Press.
  • . . Workers' Compensation, Wages and the Risk of Injury. In New Perspectives in Workers' Compensation. ILR Press.
  • , & . . Compensation and Firm Performance. In Human Resources and the Performance of Firms. Industrial Relations Research Association.
  • , & . . Public Sector Labor Market. In Handbook of Labor Economics. North Holland.
  • . . Evaluation Research and National Social Policy: An Academic Practitioner's Perspective. In Critical Thinking: Reading Across the Curriculum. Cornell University Press.
  • , & . . Estimating Wage-Fringe Trade-Offs: Some Data Problems. In The Measurement of Labor Cost. University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Income and Wealth.
  • . . Dead End Jobs and Youth Unemployment: Discussion. In The Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes and Consequences. University of Chicago Press.
  • , & . . The Effect of Unions on Productivity in the Public Sector: The Case of Municipal Libraries. In The Economics of Municipal Labor Markets.
  • , & . . The Overtime Pay Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In Economics of Legal Minimum Wage. American Enterprise Institute.
  • , & . . A Framework for Evaluating State and Local Government Pension Reform. In Public Sector Labor Markets (Papers on Public Economics Series Vol. 4). Urban Institute.
  • . . The Impact of Retirement Policies on Employment and Unemployment. In High Employment: Problems and Solutions. Arizona State University Press.
  • , & . . The Demand for Labor in the Public Sector. In Labor in the Public and Non-Profit Sectors. Princeton University Press.

Policy Report

  • . . The Gender of American Academic Leaders Matters.

Book Reviews

  • . . Review of 'The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity and the Social Contract of Public Universities' by John Aubrey Douglass.
  • . . Review of 'New Strategies For Educational Fund Raising' edited by Michael J Worth.
  • . . Review of 'Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education' by David L Kirp.
  • . . Review of 'The Case for Tenure' by Matthew W Finkin.
  • . . Review of 'The Cost of Talent' by Derek Bok.
  • . . Review of 'In Pursuit of the Ph.D.' by William G Bowen and Neil L Rudenstine.
  • . . Review of 'Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences' by William G Bowen and Julie Ann Sosa.
  • . . Review of 'An Incentives Approach to Improving the Unemployment Compensation System' by Paul L Burgess and Jerry L Kingston.
  • . . Review of 'Incentives, Cooperation and Risk Sharing' edited by Haig R Nalbantian.
  • . . Review of 'Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion' by Robert J Flanagan.
  • . . Review of 'The Economic Analysis of Unions' by Barry T Hirsch and John T Addison.
  • . . Review of 'Wage Indexation in the United States: COLA or unCOLA' by Wallace E Hendricks and Lawrence M Kahn.
  • . . Review of 'Minimum Wage Regulation in the United States' by Belton M Fleisher.
  • . . Review of 'Essays in Labor Market Analysis' by Orley Ashenfelter and Wallace E Oates.
  • . . Review of 'The Davis-Bacon Act' by Armand J Thieblot.
  • . . Review of 'Discrimination in Labor Markets' edited by Orley Ashenfelter and Albert Rees.

Conference Proceedings

  • . . Involving Undergraduate Students in Research to Encourage Them to Undertake Ph.D. Study in Economics.
  • . . Two Different Worlds.
  • . . Econometric Analyses of the Empirical Consequences of Comparable Worth: What Have We Learned?.
  • , , & . . Part-Time Employment in the United States.
  • , & . . Comparable Worth in the Public Sector.
  • . . On Overtime Hours Legislation.
  • , & . . Economic and Statistical Analysis of Discrimination in Hiring.
  • . . Retirement Policies, Employment and Unemployment.
  • , & . . Impact of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and Post-Unemployment Wage.

Newsletter

  • . . A Brief Guide to the AAUP Salary Data.
  • . . Enhancing the Attractiveness of Research Universities to Female Faculty.

Book Sections

  • , & . . Introduction.

Technical Report

  • , , & . . The Distribution of Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Costs.

Professional activities

  • Tuition, Financial Aid and Debt: A National Perspective. Presented to Cornell Alumni University. Ithaca, NY. 2018.
  • Financial Aid and Development Policies. Presented to Boston College Jesuit Institute. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. 2017.
  • Faculty Types in American Academia. Presented to ASHE -Association for the Study of Higher Education. Ann Arbor Michigan. 2016.
  • annual trip to the Department to meet with their PhD and undergraduate honors students and discuss their research. Presented to binghamton University Economics Department. Binghamton University. 2016.
  • The Golden Age of Higher Education is Over:Financial Models are Breaking Down. Presented to Lifelong. Ithaca, NY. 2016.
  • Presidential Installation Speech. Presented to SUNY Morrisville. Morrisville NY. 2015.
  • What's Happening to Higher Education. Presented to Cornell ILR School. Ithaca, NY 14850. 2015.
  • Thoughts on Financial Aid Policies. Presented to Dean of the Faculty. Cornell Campus. 2015.
  • Public Higher Education Presidents: Problems and Solutions. Presented to American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Denver, Colorado. 2015.
  • Issues Relating to FInancial AId. Presented to Dean, Cornell Collegte of Arts and Sciences. Cornell. 2015.
  • Differences in Early Academic Carreer Outcomes Among Humanities and Social Science Doctorates by Gender. Presented to association for education finance and policy. Washington DC. 2015.
  • Explaining Racial Differences in College Major Choice and Post College Aspirations' Evidence from the NLSF. Presented to association for education finance and policy. Washington DC. 2015.
  • Lessons Learned. Presented to Binghamton University. Binghatmon University. 2014.
  • Explaining Racial Differences in College Major Choice and Post College Aspirations' Evidence from the NLSF. Presented to Southern Economic Association. Atlanta Georgia. 2014.
  • Evaluating the Mellon Mays Fellowship Program. Presented to Univ of Texas Economics Department. Austin Texas. 2014.
  • is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over. Presented to Cornell VP for Human resouices. ILR CC . 2014.
  • THe Golden Age of Higher Education is Over. Presented to Wake Forest University Economics Department. Wake Forest University. 2014.
  • The Goklen Age of Higher Education is Over. Presented to University of Maryland Baltimore County. UMBC-Baltimore Maryland. 2014.
  • The Golden Age of Higher Education is Over. Presented to National Association of College and University Business Officers. New York, NY. 2014.
  • Financial Issues Facing Cornell. Presented to Cornell United Religious Work. Cornell Campus. 2013.
  • My Life and Economics. Presented to Cornell Economics Society. Cornell Campus. 2013.
  • Moderated Higher Education Issues Student Discussion. Presented to Cornell Roosevelt Institute. Cornell Campus. 2013.
  • Financial Issues Facing Cornell. Presented to Cornell Trustee Council Office. Ithaca, NY. 2013.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over. Presented to Cornell Chemistry Department. Ithaca Campus. 2013.
  • Double Header: Growing Inequality of Endowments and the End of the Golden Age of the Private Research University. Presented to cornell university investment office. Ithaca NY. 2013.
  • The Golden Age of Higher Education is Over. Presented to Cornell Summer School/Continuing Education. Ithaca, NY. 2013.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over?. Presented to Oberlin College. Oberlin, Ohio. 2013.
  • what information on earnings should we provide to potential college students. Presented to american institute for research/george washington university. washington dc. 2013.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over?. Presented to George Washington University. Washington, DC. 2013.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research Univeristy Over?. Presented to University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. 2013.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over. Presented to PCCW. Ithaca, NY. 2013.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over>. Presented to USC graduate school of Education. Los Angeles, CA. 2013.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over?. Presented to Federal Reserve Bank of NY. New York, NY. 2012.
  • Research Universities and the Future of America. Presented to Council on Governemnt Relations. Washington DC (via video). 2012.
  • Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over. Presented to emory university faculty senate. Atlanta, Georgia. 2012.
  • The Future of America's Public Research Universities. Presented to University of Vermont. Burlington Vermont. 2012.
  • The NRC Research University Report. Presented to Association of American Universities (AAU). New Orleans, LA (via videoconference). 2012.
  • On Becoming a Private and then Public University Trustee. Presented to Association of Board Secretaries (private research universities). Cornell University/Ithaca NY. 2012.
  • American Higher Education in Transition. Presented to CUNY System Administration. New York, NY. 2012.
  • American Higher Education in Transition. Presented to Marquette University. MIlwaukee Wisconsin. 2012.
  • American Law Schools in a Time of Transition. Presented to Association of American Law Schools. Washington DC. 2012.
  • Independent Colleges and Universities in a Time of Transition. Presented to Council of Independent Colleges. Marco Island, Florida. 2012.
  • What's Happening to Public Higher Education. Presented to SUNY Business Deans. SUNY Morrisville. 2011.
  • 2011 College of Education Commencement Address. Presented to Penn State University. University Park, PA. 2011.
  • Diversifying the Faculty: Do Trustees and Administrators Matter?. Presented to Northwestern University. Evanston Illinois. 2011.

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, Society of Labor Economists.
  • Fellow, TIAA CREF Institute.
  • Member, National Academy of Social Insurance.
  • SUNY Chancellor's Medal for Faculty Service,
  • Glen G Bartle Distinguished Alumnus Award, Binghamton University.
  • Honorary Member, Quilll and Dagger (Cornell Undergraduate Honor Society).
  • Ronald G Ehrenberg Professorship in Labor Economics, ILR- Cornell University.
  • Howard Bowen Lifetime Distinguished Career Award, Assocation for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).
  • LERA Fellow, Labor and Employment Relations Association.
  • Member, National Academy of Education.
  • National Associate, National Academy of Science.
  • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Pennsylvania State University.
  • Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement, Society of Labor Economists.
  • Fellow, American Educational Research Association.
  • Honorary Doctor of Science, State University of New York (SUNY).
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