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Department of Economics                              2250 Clarendon Boulevard

446 Bryan School                                            Apt. #701

Box 26170                                                        Arlington, VA 22201

UNC-Greensboro                                             Cell:  (336) 210-9624                     

Greensboro, NC 27402-6165                        E-mail:  rosenbaum@uncg.edu

Phone:  (336) 334-4872                                 Fax:  (336) 334-4089

                                                                                                                                                           

EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Ph.D., Economics, December 1998.

            Dissertation:  Three Essays on Labor Market Institutions and Low Income Populations.

-       Honorable Mention for 1999 W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award.

University of Dayton, B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Philosophy, May 1993.

 

EMPLOYMENT

Senior Economist of Labor Issues, White House Council of Economic Advisers, 2007-present.

Assistant Professor (with tenure), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2004-present.

Consultant, Cleveland Cavaliers, 2005-present.

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1998-2004.

Consultant, National Basketball Players Association, 2003.

Research Assistant, Northwestern University, Professor Bruce D. Meyer, 1994-1997.

Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, 1994-1995.

 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS

Primary Fields:  Labor Economics, Public Economics, Sports Economics, Applied Econometrics

Other Interests:  Health Economics, Urban Economics, Economics of Education, Economics of Crime

 

PUBLISHED PAPERS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1.      “A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics,” with Justin Kubatko, Kevin Pelton, and Dean Oliver,” B.E. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, (3, 3) July 2007, Article 1. (http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol3/iss3/1).

2.      “Family Expenditures on Child Care,” with Christopher J. Ruhm, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, (7, 1, Topics), Article 34, (http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol7/iss1/art34).

-       Presented at Western Economic Association Meeting (July 2004).

-       Presented at Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Special Program on the Social Dimensions of Inequality (May 2003).

3.      “Entrepreneurship and Human Capital: Evidence of Patenting Activity from the Academic Sector,” with Stuart D. Allen and Albert N. Link, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, forthcoming.

4.      “Inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care,” with Marcia Meyers, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel, in Social Inequality, Kathryn Neckerman, ed., Russell Sage: New York, 2004, pp. 223-270.

5.      “Making Single Mothers Work:  Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects,” with Bruce D. Meyer, in Making Work Pay:  The Earned Income Tax Credit and its Impact on America’s Families, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Bruce D. Meyer, eds., New York:  Russell Sage, 2002, pp. 69-115.

6.       “Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers,” with Bruce D. Meyer, Quarterly Journal of Economics, (116, 3), August 2001, pp. 1063-1114.

-     Presented at University of Dayton (October 2000), Urban Institute (February 1998), and Northwestern University (May 1997).

7.       “Making Single Mothers Work:  Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects,” with Bruce D. Meyer, National Tax Journal, (53, 4.2), December 2000, pp. 1027-1062.

8.      “Taxes, Welfare, and Employment,” with Bruce D. Meyer, National Tax Association Proceedings, 1998, pp. 191-197.

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

  1. “Mutually Beneficial: Nash’s Move to Phoenix Propels Suns and Mavericks,” SI.com, May 13, 2005.
  2. “Keeping Score: A Statistical Holy Grail: The Search for the Winner Within,” New York Times, April 10, 2005.
  3. “Keeping Score: A Welfare System for N.B.A. Owners,” New York Times, March 6, 2005.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

1.      Review of Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform, Sheldon H. Danziger, ed., Southern Economic Journal, 68(1), July 2001, pp. 204-205.

 

WORKING PAPERS

  1. “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Are NBA Statistical Models more Irrational than ‘Irrational’ Decision-Makers?” with David Lewin, September 2007.

-       Presented at Harvard University (September 2007).

  1. “Inequality and Black-White Achievement Trends in the NAEP,” with Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, June 2007.
  2. “The Brave New World of the Luxury Tax,” March 2004.
  3. “It Doesn’t Pay to be Young in the NBA,” November 2004.

-       Presented at Appalachian State (November 2004).

  1. “How the NBA Turned a Trickle of Underclassmen Leaving School Early into a Flood,” September 2003.

-       Presented at Trinity University (April 2003) and UNC-Greensboro (April 2003).

  1.  “Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Effect of Taxes on Marriage With Endogenous Labor Supply and Fertility,” August 2003 (under review with requested resubmission).

-       Presented at Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting (November 2002), Georgia (September 2001), IUPUI (October 2000) and Joint Center for Poverty Research Small Grants Conference (May 2000).

  1. “Ability, Educational Ranks, and Labor Market Trends: The Effects of Shifts in the Skill Composition of Educational Groups,” March 2004 (under review with requested resubmission).

-     Presented at McGill University (September 2000), Triangle Applied Microeconomics Conference (May 1999), Midwest Economics Association Meetings (March 1999), North Carolina State (December 1998), SUNY-Albany (February 1998), Federal Reserve Board of Governors (February 1998), Bureau of Labor Statistics (February 1998), University of Connecticut (February 1998), UNC-Greensboro (January 1998), and Northwestern University (October 1997).

  1.  “Medicaid, Private Health Insurance, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers,” with Bruce D. Meyer, November 2000.

-       Presented at National Tax Association Annual Meeting (November 2000) and NBER Summer Institute Public Economics Program (August 1999).

  1. “Repeat Use of Unemployment Insurance,” with Bruce D. Meyer, NBER Working Paper Number 5423, January 1996.

-     Presented at Northwestern University (November 1995) and University of California-Berkeley (August 1995).

 

PRESS AND INTERNET OUTLETS WHERE RESEARCH HAS BEEN CITED:

  • Akron Beacon Journal, Allentown Morning Call, Arizona Republic, Baltimore Sun, Charlotte Observer, Chicago Daily Herald, Christian Science Monitor, CNN/Money.com, Dallasbasketball.com, Dallas Basketball Radio Show, Dallas Morning News, Denton Record-Chronicle, Detroit News, ESPN.com, Forbes, Greensboro News & Record, Hoopsworld.com, Indianapolis Star, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, National Post, Northwest Indiana Times, Orlando Sentinel, Pasadena Star-News, RealGM.com, Reason, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Salon.com, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, SI.com, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Sports Illustrated, Stirling Faux Radio Show (Vancouver, BC), Street & Smith’s Sportsbusiness Journal, TrueHoop.com, Whittier Daily News, and 82games.com.

 

GRANTS

1.      Co-Principal Investigator for “Inequality in Early Childhood Care and Education,” with Marcia K. Meyers, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel, September 2001-August 2004, ($408,466).

2.      Co-Principal Investigator for “Health Benefits in the Low-Wage Sector:  The Effect of Medicaid Expansions, Labor Market Conditions, and Rising Health Insurance Costs” with Kosali Ilayperuma Simon, funded by W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, May 2001, ($5,000).

3.      Received Undergraduate Research Assistantship grant funded by UNC-Greensboro, Fall 2000-Spring 2001, ($1,500).

4.      Principal Investigator for “Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Family Structure” from the Joint Center for Poverty Research, September 1999 - August 2000, ($19,770).

5.      Received New Faculty Grant funded by UNC-Greensboro, Spring 1998 ($2,500).

6.      Received Summer Research Grant funded by the Joint Center for Poverty Research, Summer 1998 ($3,500).

 

CONFERENCES ATTENDED

·      2007 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, Harvard University, Cambridge, September 2007 (Presenter).

·      MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference, Cambridge, February 2007 (Presenter).

·      Allied Social Science Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, January 1998, New York City, NY, January 1999, Boston, MA, January 2000, New Orleans, January 2001, San Diego, January 2004, Boston, January 2006.

·      Wharton Sports Business Initiative, Turning Pro Young, Philadelphia, PA, April 2005 (Presenter and Discussant).

·      Western Economic Asssociation Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, July 2004 (Presenter).

·      Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Special Program on the Social Dimensions of Inequality, Third Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2003 (Joint Presenter and Discussant).

·      Russell Sage Social Inequality Workshop, New York, NY, March 2003.

·      Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2003 (Presenter and Discussant).

·      Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop, Madison, WI, June 1998 (Joint Presenter) and June 2003.

·      Triangle Applied Microeconomics Conference, Durham, NC, May 1999 (Presenter) and May 2001.

·      National Tax Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 1999 (Discussant) and Santa Fe, NM, November 2000 (Presenter).

·      Joint Center for Poverty Research Small Grants Conference, Washington, DC, May 1999 and May 2000 (Presenter).

·      Joint Center for Poverty Research, Tax and Transfer Programs for Low-Income Participants, Evanston, IL, November 1999.

·      Joint Center for Poverty Research, The Earned Income Tax Credit:  Early Evidence, Evanston, IL, October 1999 (Joint Presenter).

·      NBER Summer Institute Public Economics Program, Boston, MA, August 1999 (Presenter).

·      Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 1999 (Discussant).

·      Midwest Economic Association Meetings, Nashville, TN, March 1999 (Presenter).

·      Joint Center for Poverty Research, Labor Markets and Less Skilled Workers, Washington, DC, November 1998.

·      National Bureau of Economic Research Fall Labor Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, November 1997 (Joint Presenter).

·      National Science Foundation Symposium on Duration/Hazard Models, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, August 1995 (Presenter).

 

REVIEWER

Grant Proposals

·        National Science Foundation and United States Department of Agriculture.

Journals

·        American Economic Review, Demography, European Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of the Economics of the Household, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Southern Economic Journal.

 

Affiliations

·      Research Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research.

·      American Economic Association.

·      Econometric Society.

·      Society of Labor Economists.

·      National Tax Association.

·      Southern Economics Association.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

·        Sports Economics, Department of Economics, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007.

·        Economic and Business Statistics II, Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Spring 2000-2007.

·        Econometrics II (MA-level), Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Fall 1999-2006.

·        Empirical Methods (MA-level), Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Fall 1998-2006.

·        Empirical Project (MA-level), Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Fall 1998-2006.

·        Labor Economics (PhD-level), Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Spring 2006.

·        Applied Microeconomics (MA-level), Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Spring 2005 and Spring 2006.

·        Advanced Econometrics (PhD-level), Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Fall 2005.

·        Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Department of Economics, UNC-Greensboro, Fall 1998 and Spring 1999.

·        Introduction to Applied Econometrics (teaching assistant), Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Winter 1995 and Spring 1995.

·        Public Finance (teaching assistant), Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Fall 1995.

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

·      Honorable Mention for 1999 W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award.

·      Research Training Fellowship in Race, Inequality, and Urban Poverty, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1995-1998.

·      Graduate Fellow, the Joint Center for Poverty Research, 1996-1998.

·      Graduate Fellow, the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1995-1998.

·      University Fellowship, funded by Northwestern University, 1993-1994.

·      Finalist for Ohio Rhodes Scholarship Nomination, 1993.

·      First Team Academic All-American Football Team, 1991 and 1992.