David J. Zimmerman

Professor of Economics

Office: Fernald
E-mail: David.J.Zimmerman@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2192
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
Fernald House
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

Princeton University, Ph.D, 1992
University of Toronto, Bachelor of Commerce (Honors), 1985

Fields of Specialization

Labor economics
poverty and income distribution
technological change and unemployment
discrimination in the labor market
peer effects
the economics of higher education

Research

Publications and Working Papers

"Regression Toward Mediocrity in Economic Stature", American Economic Review, June 1992.

Review of A Small Town in Modern Times, by David M. Rayside, Journal of Regional Science, August 1992.

Review of The State of Working America, by Lawrence Mishel and Jared Bernstein, Choice, October 1993.

"The Benefit of Additional High School Math and Science Classes For Young Women: Evidence From Longitudinal Data," with Phil Levine, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, April 1995.

"A Comparison of the Sex-Type of Occupational Aspirations and Subsequent Achievement," with Phil Levine, Work and Occupations, February 1995.

Review of Values and Public Policy by Henry Aaron, Thomas Mann, and Timothy Taylor (eds.) Journal of Economic Literature, 1996.

"Estimates of the Returns to Schooling from Sibling Data: Fathers, Sons, and Brothers", with Orley Ashenfelter, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996.

“The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies and Births,” with Phil Levine and Amy Trainor, Journal of Health Economics, 1996.

“The Effects of State Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortions,” Focus, Vol. 17, no. 3 (Winter 1996).

"The Intergenerational Correlation in AFDC Participation: Welfare Trap or Poverty Trap?" with Phil Levine, Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper #1100-96.

“Parastatals in Zambia,” with Arup Banerji and Mwene Mwinga, in The Evaluation of Public Expenditures in Africa, edited by Henry Bruton and Catharine Hill, The World Bank, 1996

“Roe v. Wade and American Fertility,” with Thomas Kane, Phil Levine, and Douglas Staiger, American Journal of Public Health, 1998.

“An Empirical Analysis of the Welfare Magnet Debate Using the NLSY,” with Phil Levine, Journal of Population Economics, 1999.

“Students Educating Students: The Role of Peer Effects in Higher Education,” with George Goethals and Gordon Winston. Futures Forum, 1999.

“Students Educating Students: The Emerging Role of Peer Effects in Higher Education,” with George Goethals and Gordon Winston, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, Discussion Paper #50, 1999.

“Where is Aggressive Price Competition Taking Higher Education,” with Gordon Winston, Change, July/August 2000.

Book Review: Tuition Rising, by Ronald Ehrenberg, forthcoming Journal of Economic Literature, June 2002.

Statistics and Econometrics: Methods and Applications, with Phil Levine and Orley Ashenfelter, John Wiley and Sons, 2002.

Peer Effects in Higher Education, with Gordon Winston, forthcoming 2003 in College Decisions: How Students Actually Make Them and How they Could, C. Hoxby, ed., University of Chicago Press.

“Peer Effects in Higher Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2003; 85(1): 9-23.

“Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development,” with Phillip B. Levine, forthcoming Journal of Public Economics, 2003.

"Discrimination in the Small Business Market,” with David Blanchflower and Phil Levine, forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003.

Other

Selected Work Experience

Professor, Williams College, 2003-
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2003-
Chair, Department of Economics, Williams College, 2002 -
Associate Professor of Economics, Williams College, 1997 -
Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College, 1991-1997
Associate, Institute for Research on Poverty, 1996 –
Director, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, 2002-
Participant, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, 1995-2001
Participant, Forum for the Future of Higher Education, 1997-
Participant, NBER Program on Children’s Economic Welfare, 1993 –
Participant, NBER Program on Higher Education, 1998 –
Faculty Member, Law and Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law, Course for Law Professors on Advanced Quantitative Methods, Dartmouth College, July 1993 and July 1995.
Sabbatical Scholar, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1995.
Sabbatical Scholar, Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, June 1994 – December 1994.
Lecturer, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 1990 – 1991.
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, 1988-1990.
Researcher, The World Bank, 1987-1988.