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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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