Contact Info

• Email: ronl@illinois.edu
• Personal Homepage

Assistant Professor in Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations

Research Interests

Labor economics, Applied econometrics

PhD

Economics, Northwestern University, 2007

Selected Publications

• “The Doughboys Network: Social Interactions and the Employment of World War I Veterans,” working paper, University of Illinois.
• “Brothers In Arms: The Effect of Social Networks on the Employment of Veterans of the Union Army,” working paper, University of Illinois.
• “When I’m Sixty-Four: Retirement of School Teachers With a Little Help from Their Friends,” with Kristine Brown, working paper, University of Illinois.
• “Keeping Up with CEO Jones: Executive Compensation and Peer Effects,” working paper, University of Illinois.

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