Department of Economics

 

 

Dr. Jean Kimmel

Ph.D, University of North Carolina 1990

Associate Professor

5430, Friedman Hall

Phone: 269-387-5541

Email: Jean.Kimmel@wmich.edu

Web: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~jkimmel

Previous Employment: Prior to joining WMU economics department faculty in August 2001, Kimmel was Senior Economist, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (October 1989 to 1997: Economist).

 

Area of Interest:
Applied Microeconomics

Current Research: Current Research: Time Use, Child Care (Costs, Choices, and Workers), Moonlighting Behavior; Motherhood Wage Gap, Low Wage Workers, Welfare-to-Work.

Special Honors:

2005 - 2008 Named Research Fellow, The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA; Germany)

Co-Recipient (with Rachel Connelly) of a $64,616 research grant from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (2005-2007); to write book titled: The Role of Caregiving in Mothers’ Time Use: Recent Evidence from the New American Time Use Survey.

Co-recipient (with Rachel Connelly) of the Georgescu-Roegen Prize for best article published in the Southern Economic Journal in Vol. 69 (2002-2003).

Recipient of NSAF’s $20,000 Small Research Grant (Urban Institute); 2003.
Co-recipient (with Rachel Connelly) of a Small Grant from Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, 1998-1999.

Midwestern Representative and Board Member, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, subcommittee of the American Economic Association, 1999-2002.

Selected Publications:

Kevin Hollenbeck and Jean Kimmel.  2007.  “Differences in the Returns to Education for Males by Disability Status and Age of Disability Onset,”accepted by the Southern Economic Journal (January 2007).

Jean Kimmel and Rachel Connelly.  Forthcoming 2007.  “Determinants of Mothers’ Time Choices in the United States: Caregiving, Leisure, Home Production, and Paid Work,  Journal of Human Resources (Summer).

Jean Kimmel and Lisa Powell. 2006.   “Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers,” Eastern Economic Journal Vol. 32, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 397-419; earlier draft circulated as WMU Department of Economics WP # 03-03.

Jean Kimmel.  2006.  “Child Care, Female Employment, and Economic Growth” Journal of the Community Development Society Vol. 37, No. 2 (Summer), pp. 1-34; first draft  presented at the May 2005 conference  Articulating the Economic Significance of the Childcare Sector, sponsored by Cornell University.

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jean Kimmel.  2006.  “Can the Family Earnings Gap be Reduced by Postponing Maternity,” in Education and Postponement of Maternity: Economic Analyses for Industrialized Countries; edited by Siv Gustafsson and Adriaan Kalwij; New York: Kluwer Press, pp. 175-206.

Jean Kimmel and Lisa Powell. 2006.   “Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices: Implications for Welfare Reform,” chapter included in From Welfare to Child Care; New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., pp. 129-148.

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jean Kimmel. 2005. “The Motherhood Wage Gap: The Role of Education and Fertility,” Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 17-48; Guest Editor: Siv Gustafsson; earlier draft circulated as WMU Department of Economics WP # 03-07.

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel. 2003. "Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices," Applied Economics, Vol. 35, No. 7 (May), pp. 761-777.

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel. 2003. “The Effect of Child Care Costs on the Labor Force Participation and Welfare Recipiency of Single Mothers: Implications for Welfare Reform,” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 69, No. 3 (January).

Kevin Hollenbeck and Jean Kimmel. 2002. “The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Reform: Ohio’s JOBS Student Retention Program,” Evaluation Review, Vol. 26 No. 6 (December); pp. 398-424.

Jean Kimmel and Karen Conway. 2001. “Who Moonlights and Why? Evidence from the SIPP,” Industrial Relations, January, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 89-120.

Jean Kimmel and Lisa M. Powell. 1999. “Moonlighting Trends and Related Policy Issues in Canada and the United States,” Canadian Public Policy, Volume 25, No. 2, pp. 207-231.

Jean Kimmel and Thomas J. Kniesner. 1998. “New Evidence on Labor Supply: Employment versus Hours Elasticities by Sex and Marital Status,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 42, No. 2 (October), pp. 289-301.

Karen Conway and Jean Kimmel. 1998. “Male Labor Supply Estimates and the Decision to Moonlight,” Labour Economics, Volume 5, No. 2 (June), pp. 135-166.

Jean Kimmel. 1998. “Child Care Costs as a Barrier to Employment for Single and Married Mothers,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 80, No. 2 (May), pp. 287-299.

Jean Kimmel. 1997. “Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Unmarried Mothers: Health-Related Employment Barriers and Policy Responses,” Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 23, No.2, (Spring), pp.151-163.

Jean Kimmel. 1997. “Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences Between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians,” Economics of Education Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, (Winter), pp. 81-96.

Jean Kimmel. 1995. “The Effectiveness of Child Care Subsidies in Encouraging the Welfare to Work Transition of Low-Income Single Mothers,” American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), Vol. 85, No. 2 (May), pp. 271-275.

Selected Other Publications:
Jean Kimmel and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes. 2004. “The Effects of Family Leave on Wages, Employment, and the Family Wage Gap: Distributional Implications,” Journal of Law and Policy, Volume 15 (May).

Jean Kimmel. 2003. “The Child Care Problem for Low Income Working Families. Invited chapter in Economics of Gender and the Family (edited by Karine S. Moe); Blackwell.

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel. 2003. "Child Care and Marriage." Invited chapter in Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies (edited by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman); Cambridge University Press.

Jean Kimmel and Karen Smith Conway. 2002. Invited Commentary on “The Moonlighter,” Harvard Business Review, November.

Jean Kimmel and Emily Hoffman, editors. 2002. The Economics of Work and Family, Kalamazoo MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

 

 

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