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Scott Drewianka, Associate Professor

Office: Bolton Hall 860
Phone: (414) 229-2730
e-mail: sdrewian@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~sdrewian

Degrees:
Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Carleton College
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Research Interests:
Labor Economics, Demographic Economics, Microeconomics

Current Projects:
"Cross-Sectional Variation in Individuals’ Earnings Instability."

"Household Production and Risk-Aversion."

"Do Separation Laws Matter? An Experimental Study of Commitment" (formerly titled "An Experimental Study of Commitment under Different Separation Rules") (with Filip Vesely and Vivian Lei)

"Wal-Mart and Local Labor Markets, 1990-2004." (with Dain Johnson)

Selected Publications:
"Constrained Labor Supply and Risk-Aversion," forthcoming, Economics Letters.

"Divorce Law and Family Formation," Journal of Population Economics, 21(2), April 2008: 485-503.

"Economic Restructuring and Labor Market Inefficiency: Evidence from Cross-Sectoral Data," Southern Economic Journal, 74(1), July 2007: 214-238 (with Chad D. Cotti).

"A Generalized Model of Commitment," Mathematical Social Sciences, 52(3), December 2006: 233-251.

"How will Reforms of Marital Institutions Influence Marital Commitment? A Theoretical Analysis," Review of Economics of the Household, 2(3), September 2004: 303—323.

"Estimating Social Effects in Matching Markets," Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(2), May 2003, 409-23.

"Proposed Reforms of Marital Institutions," 2000. Population Research Center Discussion Paper Series, No. 2000-02.

"Social Effects in Marriage Markets: Theory, Existence, Magnitude and Nature." 1999. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Chicago
 

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