Honorary Appointments & Awards

 

• Research Associate

National Bureau of Economic Research, September 1997 – present; Faculty Research Fellow, October 1991 – September 1997.

 

• Fellow

TIAA-CREF Institute, March 2005 – December 2017.

 

• IPUMS Research Award, 2010 co-winner

“The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression” (Journal of Labor Economics, October 2010) (with Leah Platt Boustan and Price V. Fishback).

 

• The Dr. Fred Spiess Award for Distinguished Service to the Academic Senate, University of California, Merced, 2009

In recognition of outstanding service to the Academic Senate and contributions that have had a major impact on faculty governance.

 

• The Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Published in 2000

A Prelude to the Welfare State:  The Origins of Workers’ Compensation

 

• The TIAA-CREF Institute Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, 2000

A Prelude to the Welfare State:  The Origins of Workers’ Compensation

 

• Arthur H. Cole Prize, 1997 

“The Durable Experiment:  State Insurance of Workers’ Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century” (Journal of Economic History, 1996).  Economic History Association award for the outstanding article published in the Journal of Economic History, September 1996 to June 1997.

 

• Columbia University Prize in American Economic History in Honor of Allan Nevins, 1991

Economic History Association award for the outstanding dissertation in North American economic history completed during 1990–1991.

 

 

Grants & Contracts

 

• National Science Foundation

“Collaborative Research: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Origins of Modern State Government Fiscal Policies,” Grant No. SES-1623820 (formerly SES- 1357662), March 2014 to February 2018, $123,049. 

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• National Science Foundation

“The Long-Term Regional Economic Impacts from Public Investment in University Research,” Grant No. SMA-1158794, August 2012 to July 2016, (co-PI Alexander Whalley).

 

• National Science Foundation

“The Ascendancy of American Research Universities, 1870-1940,” Grant No. SES-0851788, August 2009 to July 2013,  (co-PI Alexander Whalley).

 

• National Science Foundation

“Collaborative Grant:  Government, Housing, and the Changing Income Distribution During the Great Depression:  A Disaggregated and Microeconomic Approach,” Grant No. SES-0617942, July 2006 to July 2010.

 

• TIAA-CREF Institute

“The Impact of Public Higher Education Expenditures on Local Economic Growth,” August 2005 to August 2006.

 

• National Science Foundation

“The Economic Impact of the New Deal,” Grant No. SES-0214395, July 2002 to June 2004, (co-PIs Price V. Fishback and William C. Horrace).

 

• World Bank

“Privatization of Mexican Banks, 1980-2002,” May 20, 2002, to June 30, 2003.

 

• National Science Foundation

“The Impact of the New Deal on Local Economic Development,” Grant No. SES-0080324, July 2000 to June 2002, $283,187 (co-PIs Price V. Fishback and William C. Horrace).

 

• National Science Foundation

“The Impact of New Deal Relief Spending on Local Labor Markets,” Grant No. SBR-9708098, July 1997 to June 1999, (co-PI Price V. Fishback).

 

• Spain Ministry of Education and Culture

“Estancias de investigadores extranjeros en regimen de año sabático en España,” Award number SAB95-0504, January 1997 to September 1997.

 

• National Science Foundation

“The Political Economy of Workers’ Compensation in the Early Twentieth-Century,” Grant No. SBR-9223058, June 1993 to May 1995, (co-PI Price V. Fishback).