March 2005

 

                      John W. Graham III

 

CURRENT ADDRESS:

 

Office:  801 Hill Hall

    Department of Economics

         Rutgers University

         Newark, NJ  07102

         Telephone: (973) 353-1321

         FAX: (973) 353-5819

         E-Mail: jwgraham@rutgers.edu

         Internet:  http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jwgraham

 

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:

 

June 20, 1951    Wilkinsburg, PA.

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1978.

M.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1975.

A.B., Brown University, Providence, RI, 1973.

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

 

Chairperson, Department of Economics, Rutgers-Newark, 2003-present.

Acting Associate Dean, Graduate School-Newark, 2002-2003.

Professor of Economics, Rutgers University, Newark, 1996-present.

Associate Professor of Economics, Rutgers University, Newark, 1986-

    1996.

Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics and Business

    Administration, Helsinki, Finland, May 1998, March 2000,

    September 2002, May 2003.

Visiting Professor, ORT-Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, Spring 1996.

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1986-1993.

Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State

    University, 1982-83.

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-

    Champaign, 1978-1986.

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-

    Champaign, 1977-1978.

Instructor, Northwestern University Evening Division, 1975-76.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Northwestern

    University, 1974-1975.

Research Assistant, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,

    Summer 1973 and Summer 1974.


PUBLICATIONS:

 

1.  Books, Monographs, Reports and Pamphlets

 

Small Change: The Economics of Child Support (with Andrea H. Beller), New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, pp. 338.  [First paperback edition published in 1996.]  (Chapter 4 has been reprinted in Family Law in Action by Carl Schneider and Margaret Brinig, Anderson Publishing, 1999.)

 

The Illinois Economy: An Analysis of Economic Growth Since 1947, (with A. James Heins), Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, 1983, pp. 141.

 

Illinois Highways and Economic Growth, (with A. James Heins), Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, 1979, pp. 53.

 

2.  Parts of Books (Chapters)

 

"Child Support," (with Andrea H. Beller), in Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman, ed., Marriage and the Economy:  Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 153-176.

 

"Nonresident Fathers and Their Children:  Child Support and Visitation from an Economic Perspective," (with Andrea H. Beller), in Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda and Natasha Cabrera, eds., Handbook of Father Involvement:  Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002, pp. 431-453.

 

"The Effects of Child Support on Educational Attainment," (with Andrea H. Beller and Pedro Hernandez), in Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan and Philip Robins, eds., Child Support and Child Well Being, Urban Institute Press, 1994, pp. 319-356.

 

"Variations in the Economic Well-Being of Divorced Women and Their Children:  The Role of Child Support Income," (with Andrea H. Beller), in Martin David and Timothy Smeeding, eds., Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being, Studies in Income and Wealth, No. 50, National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago Press, 1985, pp. 471-506.

 

"Consumer Asset Composition in an Inflationary Environment," (with Michael G. Bradley), in Seymour Sudman and Mary A. Spaeth, eds., The Collection and Analysis of Economic and Consumer Data:  Essays in Honor of Robert Ferber, Urbana, IL.:  Bureau of Economic and Business Research and Survey Research Laboratory, 1984, pp. 39-52.

 

"The Influence of Nonhuman Wealth on the Accumulation of Human Capital," in M. Ali Khan, ed., Research in Human Capital and Development, vol. II, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1981, pp. 73-94.


3.  Articles in Refereed Journals

 

“Gender Differences in Employment and Earnings in Science and Engineering in the US,” (with Steven A. Smith), Economics of Education Review, June 2005 (vol. 24), pp. 341-354.

 

“Looking for the Next George Washington Carver:  Explaining Racial Differences in Employment and Earnings in Science and Engineering in the United States,” (with Steven A. Smith), The Review of Black Political Economy, Summer 2004 (vol. 33, no. 1).

 

 “Ethnic and Gender Differences in Selection and Earnings in Science and Engineering Occupations,” (with Steven A. Smith), International Journal of Management & Information Systems, Spring 2004 (vol. 1, no. 1), pp. 11-27. (Available online at: http://www.ijmis.org/index1.htm)

           

"The Child Support Enforcement Amendments of 1984 and Educational Attainment of Young Adults in the United States," (with Pedro M. Hernandez and Andrea H. Beller), Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Autumn 1996 (vol. 10, no. 3), pp. 537-558.

 

"Child Support in Black and White:  Racial Differentials in the Award and Receipt of Child Support during the 1980s," (with Andrea H. Beller), Social Science Quarterly, September 1996 (vol. 77, no. 3), pp. 528-542.

 

"A Comment on 'Why Did Child Support Award Levels Decline from 1978 to 1985?' by Philip K. Robins," Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1995 (vol. 30, no. 3), pp. 622-632.

 

"Changes in the Relationship Between Child Support Payments and Educational Attainment of Offspring, 1979-1988," (with Pedro M. Hernandez and Andrea H. Beller), Demography, May 1995 (vol. 32, no. 2), pp. 249-260.

 

"Child Support and Remarriage:  Implications for the Economic Well-Being of Children," (with Karen Fox Folk and Andrea H. Beller), Journal of Family Issues June 1992 (vol. 13, no. 2), pp. 142-157.

 

"The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Child Support Payments," (with Andrea H. Beller), Population Research and Policy Review, 1991 (vol. 10, no. 2), pp. 91-116.

 

"Black-White Differences in Wealth and Asset Composition," (with Francine D. Blau), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1990 (vol. CV, no. 2), pp. 321-340.

 

"Child Support and Mother's Employment," Contemporary Policy Issues,

January 1990 (vol. VIII, no. 1), pp. 95-109.

 

"The Effect of Child Support Payments on the Labor Supply of Female Family Heads:  An Econometric Analysis," (with Andrea H. Beller), Journal of Human Resources, Fall 1989 (vol. 24, no. 4), pp. 664-688.

 

"International Differences in Saving Rates and the Life Cycle Hypothesis:  Reply and Further Evidence," European Economic Review, 1989 (vol. 33), pp. 1499-1507.

 

"Child Support Payments:  Evidence From Repeated Cross-Sections," (with Andrea H. Beller), American Economic Review, May 1988 (vol. 78 no. 2), pp. 81-85.

 

"Education and Asset Composition," (with Michael G. Bradley), Economics of Education Review, 1988 (vol. 7 no. 2) pp. 209-220.

 

"International Differences in Saving Rates and the Life Cycle Hypothesis," European Economic Review, December 1987 (vol. 31 no. 8)

pp. 1509-29.

 

"The Determinants of Child Support Income," (with Andrea H. Beller), Social Science Quarterly, June 1986 (vol. 67, no. 2) pp. 353-364.

 

"Child Support Awards:  Differentials and Trends by Race and Marital Status," (with Andrea H. Beller), Demography, May 1986 (vol. 23 no. 2) pp. 231-245.  (Reprinted in Proceedings:  Research and Evaluation Track, 35th Annual Conference, National Child Support Enforcement Association, 1987.)

 

"Inflation Risk and Consumer Portfolio Behavior," (with Michael G. Bradley), Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Spring 1986

(vol. 26, no. 1) pp. 88-94.

 

"A Note on the Number and Living Arrangements of Women with Children Under 21 From an Absent Father:  Revised Estimates From the April 1979 and 1982 Current Population Surveys," (with Andrea H. Beller) Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 1985 (vol. 13, no. 2) pp. 209-214.

 

"Expenditure on Education:  International Statistics," International Encyclopedia of Education, London:  Pergamon Press Ltd., 1985, pp. 1792-95 (also appears in Economics of Education:  Research and Studies, ed. by George Psacharopoulos, London:  Pergamon Press Ltd., 1987, pp. 409-412).

 

"Personal Earnings Variation and Education," (with Walter W. McMahon), International Encyclopedia of Education, London: Pergamon Press Ltd., 1985, pp. 3831-36 (also appears in Economics of Education:  Research and Studies, ed. by George Psacharopoulos, London:  Pergamon Press Ltd., 1987, pp. 261-266).

 

"Why is Consumption out of Labor Income Greater Than Consumption Out of Nonlabor Income?" Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics,  Summer 1984 (vol. 23, no. 3) pp. 59-69.

 

"Estimating the Parameters of a Household Production Function with Joint Products," (with Carole A. Green), The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1984 (vol. 66, no. 2) pp. 277-282.

 

"An Explanation for the Correlation of Stocks of Nonhuman Capital with Investment in Human Capital," American Economic Review, March 1981 (vol. 71, no. 1) pp. 248-255.

 

"Stocks and Depreciation of Human Capital:  New Evidence From a Present-Value Perspective," (with Roy Webb), Review of Income and Wealth, June 1979 (vol. 25, no. 2) pp. 209-224.

 

"Housing Demand by One-Person Households," (with Robert Fisher), Land Economics, May 1974 (vol. L, no. 2) pp. 163-168.

 

4.  Articles in Published Conference Volumes

 

"A Policy Agenda for Child Support in the 1990s," (with Andrea H. Beller), Third Women's Policy Research Conference Proceedings, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 1994, pp. 221-227.

 

"Trends in Child Support Payments," (with Andrea H. Beller), First Annual Women's Policy Research Conference Proceedings, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 1990, pp. 52-57.

 

5.  Book Reviews

 

Fathers Under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement edited by Irwin Garfinkel et. al., Journal of Economic Literature,

September 1999, pp. 1727-8.

 

Investment in Women’s Human Capital edited by T. Paul Schultz, Education Economics, 1997 (vol. 5, no. 2), pp. 190-2.

 

The Economics of Being Poor by Theodore W. Schultz, Education Economics 1995 (vol. 2, no. 2), pp. 207-9.

 

The Formation and Stocks of Total Capital by John Kendrick,

Journal of Economic Literature, September 1977 (vol. XV, no.3) pp. 962-64.

 

6.  Other Publications:

 

"Feminization of Poverty," report on CSWEP-sponsored sessions at the American Economic Association Meetings, in CSWEP Newsletter, Winter issue, February 1988.

 

"Child Support Laws Appear to Have Increased Payments by Absent Fathers," research excerpt in the Digest of Family Planning Perspectives, Nov/Dec 1987 (vol. 19, no. 6) pp. 272-3.

 

"Education," in Illinois Economic Outlook 1986, Robert W. Resek, ed., (Champaign, IL:  BEBR, 1985) pp. 16-17.

 

"Child Support:  Inflation Loser," featured in USA Today, March 29, 1985.

 

"An Invalid Argument Against Tax Indexing," Letter in The New York Times, January 20, 1983.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

 

"Black-White Differences in Employment and Earnings in Science and Engineering:  Assessing the Impact of Being Black," (with Steven A. Smith and Sandra Hartman), presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meetings, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26-28, 2003.

 

"The Impact of Nativity and Citizenship on the Earnings of College-Educated Workers in the United States in the 1990s," (with Steven A. Smith), presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meetings, London, England, July 7-10, 2000.

 

"Ethnic and Gender Differences in Selection and Earnings in Science and Engineering Occupations," (with Steven Smith), presented at the 11th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Madison, Wisconsin, July 10, 1999.

 

"The Impact of Race, Sex and Nativity on Earnings in Science and Engineering Labor Markets" (with Steven Smith), presented at the 11th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Madison, Wisconsin, July 10, 1999.

 

"Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men" (with Andrea Beller and Jeffrey Gray) presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., March 27-29, 1997.

 

"Childhood Family Structure and Labor Market Earnings" (with Andrea Beller and Jeffrey Gray) presented at the Allied Social Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, January 6, 1997.

 

"Childhood Family Structure and the Labor Market Earnings of Young Black and White Men," (with Jeffrey Gray and Andrea Beller) presented at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 24, 1996.

 

"Child Support in Black and White," presented at the National Child Support Enforcement Association research conference, Washington D.C., March 3, 1995.

 

"Child Support in Black and White:  Differentials and Trends by Race in the Award and Receipt of Child Support During the 1980s," presented at the Working Conference on Current Research on Inequality, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, June 20, 1993.

 

"Effects of Child Support on Offspring Educational Attainment:  Changes During the 1980s," (with Pedro Hernandez and Andrea H. Beller), American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim CA, January 5-7, 1993.  (Paper also presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1-3, 1993.)

 

"The Relationship Between Child Support Payments and Offspring Educational Attainment," (with Andrea H. Beller), Conference on Child Support and Child Well Being, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development, Airlie House, Virginia, December 5-7, 1991.  (Paper also presented at the Econometric Society Meetings, New Orleans, January 1992.)

 

"Trends in the Value of Child Support Awards," (with Andrea H. Beller), Population Association of America Annual Meetings, Toronto, May 1990.

 

"Child Support and Mother's Labor Supply," invited session on "Welfare Policy and Child Support," Western Economic Association Annual Meetings, Los Angeles, July 1988.

 

"Child Support Payments:  Evidence From Repeated Cross-Sections," (with Andrea H. Beller), American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, December 1987.

 

"The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Child Support Payments," (with Andrea H. Beller), Population Association of America Annual Meetings, Chicago, May 1987.

 

"The Effect of Child Support Payments on the Labor Supply of Female Family Heads," (with Andrea H. Beller), Econometric Society Winter Meetings, New York City, December 1985 and Population Association of America Annual Meetings, San Francisco, April 1986.

 

"Child Supports Awards:  Differentials and Trends by Race and Marital Status," (with Andrea H. Beller), Population Association of America Annual Meetings, Boston, MA., March 1985.

 

"Child Support Income:  Determinants and Consequences," (with Andrea H. Beller), Eastern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New York City, April 1984.

 

"International Differences in Saving Rates and the Life Cycle Hypothesis," Econometric Society, San Francisco, December 1983.

 

"Variations in the Economic Well-Being of Divorced Women and Their Children:  The Role of Child Support Income,” (with Andrea H. Beller), National Bureau of Economic Research conference "Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Well-Being," Baltimore, December 1983.

 

"The Influence of Education on Asset Management in an Inflationary Environment," (with Michael G. Bradley), Eastern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington D. C., April 1982.

 

"The Household Production Theory of Consumption: Aggregate Implications and Tests," Western Economic Association Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, June 1979.

 

"Present-Value Estimates of Human Capital Stocks," (with Roy Webb), contributed paper, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, York England, August 1977.

 

EXTERNAL GRANTS:

 

"Child Support Payments:  Determinants and Consequences," (with Andrea H. Beller), National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, grant number 1 R01 HD19350 DBS, July 1984-June 1987.

 

"Child Support:  Determinants, Trends and Consequences," (with Andrea H. Beller), National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, grant number 2 R01 HD19350, September 1987 - August 1990.

 

"Proposal for Continuation of Support of a Consumer Economic Behavior Panel of Young Married Couples," Faculty Associate, National Science Foundation, grant number GS 36166, October 1979-81.

 

HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

 

"Excellence in Graduate Teaching" Award, University of Illinois

College of Commerce, Commerce Alumni Association, 1982.

 

"Outstanding Graduate Instructor of 1981," University of Illinois

Economics Graduate Students and Omicron Delta Epsilon.

 

Rockefeller Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1976-77.

 

Northwestern University, Departmental Fellowship, 1973-74, 1974-75.

 

Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 1973.

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

 

Journal Referee: American Economic Review, Demography, European Economic Review, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Social Science Quarterly.

 

Grants Referee:  National Science Foundation, Division of Social

   Sciences, Economics Program.

 

Consultant: "Working Group on Child-Relevant Survey Supplements and

   Tabulations" at Child Trends, Inc., Washington, D. C., 1985-87.