Department
of Economics mbrown@ssc.wisc.edu
University
of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mbrown
Tel:
(608) 262-8789
DATE OF BIRTH
Assistant Professor, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, August 2001-present.
Affiliate, Institute for
Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Steering Committee Member, Center for Demography and
Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ph.D. Economics,
Committee/Primary Advising: Christopher Flinn
(chair), Michael Keane, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Douglas Gale.
M.A. Economics,
B.A. Economics and English Literature,
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of the
Household, Economics of Aging, Applied Econometrics.
“Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life
Transfers,” Journal of Human Resources,
41(1): 191-219, Winter 2006.
“End-of-Life Transfers and the Decision to Care for
a Parent,” previous version July 2004, current version February 2007, revise
and resubmit at the International
Economic Review.
“A New Test of
Educational Borrowing Constraints,” with John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri
(UW), August 2007.
“Real
Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market,” with Christopher Flinn and
Andrew Schotter (NYU), September 2007.
“Mandatory
Retirement Saving and the Efficiency Consequences of Transfers to the Elderly,”
March 2006.
“Investment in Child
Quality Over Marital States,” with Christopher Flinn (NYU), July 2006; to be
submitted fall 2007.
“Tied Transfers,” with Maurizio Mazzocco
(Duke), John Karl Scholz, and Ananth Seshadri (UW), September 2006; to be
submitted fall 2007.
“Fertility, Marriage Dynamics and Investment in Children,” with Christopher Flinn.
“Non-custodial Parents’ Voluntary and
“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).
GRANTS
AND AWARDS
National Science Foundation, “Family Law and Investment in Children,” (with Christopher Flinn), August 2005- July 2008.
National Institute on Aging (R01), “Theory and Evidence on Intergenerational Transfers,” (with Maurizio Mazzocco, John Karl Scholz, and Ananth Seshadri), September 2003-August 2007.
Boston College Center for Retirement Research, Steven H. Sandell Grant Program for Junior Scholars in Retirement Research, “Social Security Reform and the Exchange of Bequests for Elder Care,” June 2002-May 2003.
Maude P. and Milton J. Shoemaker Fellow in
Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001-2002.
SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2007: American Economic Association;
2006: Northern Illinois University; inaugural meeting of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) in Madison, WI; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE); Yale; Georgetown; Wisconsin.
2005: NIA/NICHD Intergenerational Research Workshop; CDHA workshop, University of Wisconsin; ESPE 2005 Annual Conference; Conference on Structural Models in Labor, Aging, and Health, Duke/UNC; Minnesota Applied Micro Workshop; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Northwestern.
2004: Midwest Economic Association annual meeting; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Numerically Intensive Economic Policy Analysis (NIEPA) workshop at Queen’s University; HEC Montreal; University of North Carolina; Cornell; Johns Hopkins; University of Missouri; University of Michigan
2003: SSA Retirement Research Consortium;
2002: Ohio State University; Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance, University of Wisconsin; Center for Demography and Ecology Seminar, University of Wisconsin; Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop, University of Wisconsin; Public Economics Workshop, University of Wisconsin; American Economic Association Meetings.
2001: North American Econometric Society Meetings; Eastern Economic Association Conference; Vanderbilt University; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Colorado-Boulder; State University of New York-Albany; University of Quebec at Montreal; Concordia University; University of Pittsburgh; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve; University of Pennsylvania (Wharton); University of California-San Diego; Syracuse University.
2000:
American Economic Review;
Economic Journal; International Economic Review; Journal of Applied
Econometrics; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Journal of
Econometrics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal
of Human Resources; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Population
Economics, Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Risk & Insurance;
National Science Foundation.
Economics 101: Principles of Microeconomics, 2003,
enrollment 391
Economics 101: Principles of Microeconomics, 2003,
enrollment 387
Economics 101: Principles of Microeconomics, 2004,
enrollment 460
Economics 101: Principles of Microeconomics, 2004,
enrollment 460
Economics 101: Principles of Microeconomics, 2007,
enrollment 444
Economics 441: Undergraduate Public Economics, 2002,
enrollment ~50
Economics 441: Undergraduate Public Economics, 2007,
enrollment 89
Economics 742: Graduate Public Economics, 2002,
enrollment ~8
Economics 742: Graduate Public Economics, 2003,
enrollment 11
Economics 741: Graduate Public Economics, 2005,
enrollment 10
Economics 741: Graduate Public Economics, 2007,
enrollment 8
Economics 741: Graduate Public Economics, 2007,
enrollment 8
TEXT
Instructor’s Manual for Microeconomics: A Modern
Approach, Third Edition, with Andrew Schotter.
REFERENCES
|
Christopher J. Flinn Department of Economics (212) 998-8925 |
John Karl Scholz Visiting Fellow, Economic Studies Program (202)
797-6216 |
Ananth Seshadri Department of Economics (608) 262-6196 |