Department of Economics

Carol Scotese Lehr Associate Professor Ph.D, Pennsylvania State University

Recent Working Papers

· War Mobilization and the Great Compression

· Occupational composition and wage inequality

Publications

· Evidence on the Demographic Transition,” Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming)

· Fertility and Government Spending on Education at Different Levels of Development (2004) in Economic Growth and Human Capital (eds., M. Boldrin and P. Wang) with Theodore Palivos.

· Fertility and Education Premiums, Journal of Population Economics (2003).

· Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Transboundary Pollution, Open Economies Review (July 2000) with John W. Maxwell.

· Dynamic Effects of Financial Intermediation over the Business Cycle, Economic Inquiry 38, (January 2000) 34-57; with Ping Wang.

· Banking on Fewer Children: Financial Intermediation, Fertility and Economic Development Journal of Population Economics 12 (December 1999) 567-590.

· Fertility, Growth and the Financing of Public Education and Health, Journal of Population Economics 9, (November 1996) 415-428; with Theodore Palivos.

· Can Government Enforcement Permanently Alter Fertility?: The Case of China”; Economic Inquiry 33, (October 1995) with Ping Wang.

· “Fertility Choice and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence”: The Review of Economics and Statistics, (May 1994), with Ping Wang and Chong Yip.

· Forecast Smoothing and the Optimal Under-utilization of Information at the Federal Reserve”: Journal of Macroeconomics , (Fall 1994)