University of Wisconsin–Madison Tim Huegerich

Department of Economics

Ph.D. Candidate

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Research Fields: Labor, Development, Applied Microeconomics

Research statement - Briefly: I am interested in understanding the investment behavior of poor households in developing countries. I also study the implications of labor market informational frictions for working conditions, on-the-job training, and unemployment.

CV (Last updated: Dec. 2011)

References: John Kennan (Chair), Christopher Taber, Rasmus Lentz, James R. Walker
Working Papers

Interpreting High Returns to Microenterprise Investment (job market paper)
- new draft (Nov. 26, 2011 - first draft posted Nov. 21)

The Implications of Search Frictions for Measuring Workers' Preferences for Job Characteristics

Work in Progress

On-the-Job Search and On-the-Job Training (with Seung-Gyu "Andrew" Sim)

Teaching

Econ 302 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

Miscellaneous

James Alison - currently my favorite theologian
"The 'joy of being wrong' is the Christian experience of being freed from the bondage to sin and enabled to recognize and confess that one's way of being in the world is wrong. James Alison has written a ground-breaking book that understands original sin from the vantage point of redemption. He proposes a 'theological anthropology': an understanding of the human self and human culture that is supported and explicated in theological terms drawn primarily (though not exclusively) from the Roman Catholic tradition. Using René Girard's mimetic model of the origin and structure of human behavior, the author reinterprets ancient Christian doctrines and lays out a new basis for the relation of faith and reason. The object of this reinterpretation of ancient doctrine, particularly original sin, is to rehabilitate and defend Christian orthodoxy."

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Consumers of Catan rules (v3.5)
Rule modifications to the popular strategy game The Settlers of Catan to bring it more into alignment with conventional assumptions of economic theory. It's a fun alternative to online simulations of market equilibrium. The original game is already useful for teaching economics concepts, but I make the objective more directly approximate utility and incorporate money (by imposing a cash-in-advance constraint) to facilitate the introduction of stocks, public finance, international trade and finance, and/or labor.

Somewhat impertinent essays in philosophy of science (from 2002-2003 at the University College London Dept. of Science and Technology Studies)
- scientific inference: The Exclusive Justification of Belief in Empirical Adequacy
- scientific explanation: Salmon on van Fraassen on Explanation

A universal noise removal algorithm with an impulse detector (with Roman Garnett, Charles Chui, and Wenjie He, published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.14, no.11, pp.1747-1754, Nov. 2005)
- Matlab code for the "Trilateral" filter

Plasmasphere Refilling Rates Inferred from Polar and IMAGE Satellite Spectrogram Data (with Jerry Goldstein, Patricia H. Reiff, and Bodo W. Reinisch)
- 2002 undergraduate research in space physics

Sewell Social Sciences Building
Office: 7308
thuegerich (at) wisc.edu 		Economics Dept.
1180 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI. 53706