Meta Brown, Department of Economics, UW-Madison

Meta Brown
Assistant Professor of Economics

Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Phone: (608) 262-8789
Fax: (608) 262-2033
Email: mbrown@ssc.wisc.edu

As of September 2008 I have moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. You can contact me at meta.brown@ny.frb.org or (212) 720-5589. My new web page is http://www.newyorkfed.org/economists/brown.

Public Economics Workshop, Fall 2007 (coordinated w/ Jane)

Research

Research Statement

Publications

"Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers," Journal of Human Resources, 41(1): 191-219, Winter 2006

Papers in submission

A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education (with John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri), August 2007.

Real Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market (with Christopher J. Flinn and Andrew Schotter), September 2007.

End-of-Life Transfers and the Decision to Care for a Parent, previous version July 2004, this version February 2007, revise and resubmit at the International Economic Review

Mandatory Retirement Saving and the Efficiency Consequences of Transfers to the Elderly, March 2006.

Working papers and work in progress

Investment in Child Quality Over Marital States (with Christopher Flinn), July 2006, new draft available shortly/to be submitted fall 2007

Tied Transfers (with Maurizio Mazzocco, John Karl Scholz, and Ananth Seshadri), September 2006, new draft available shortly/to be submitted fall 2007

“Fertility, Marriage Dynamics and Investment in Children,” with Christopher Flinn.

“Non-custodial Parents’ Voluntary and Court-Ordered College Contributions.”

“Tuition and Attention: What Motivates Transfers Over the Life-Cycle of the Family?” with Mark Wilhelm.

“Tax Planning and Behavioral Motives for Giving via Trusts in the Health and Retirement Study,” with Misuzu Azuma (very preliminary draft available from Misuzu, mazuma@grips.ac.jp).