Curriculum Vitae - pantherFILE - University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Curriculum Vitae - pantherFILE - University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Owen Thompson
Curriculum Vitae
Updated: February 2015
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Bolton Hall 878
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Tel: (414) 229-4429
Email: thompsoo@uwm.edu
Homepage: http://people.uwm.edu/thompsoo
Positions
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 2013Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2013
M.P.P., Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2009
B.A., Economics, The Evergreen State College, 2005
Publications
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Genetic Mechanisms in the Intergenerational Transmission of Health (2014). Journal of Health Economics 35(3), 132-146.
Economic Background and Educational Attainment: The Role of Gene-Environment Interactions (2014). Journal of Human
Resources 49(2), 263-294.
Racial Disparities in the Cognition-Health Relationship (2011). Journal of Health Economics 30(2), 328-339.
The Estimated Cost Impact of Privatizing Student Transportation in Minnesota School Districts. (2011). Public Choice
146(34), 319-339.
Working Papers
Drug Policy and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States (Revised and Resubmitted, Contemporary Economic Policy)
The Determinants of Racial Differences in Parenting Practices: Evidence from the Civil Rights Era (Under Review)
Gene-Environment Interaction in the Intergenerational Transmission of Health (Under Review)
Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes (with Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan. Under review.)
Educational Mobility across Three Generations of American Women (with Sarah Kroeger. Under review)
Works in Progress
The Genetic Transmission of Obesity (with Timothy Classen)
Access to Medical Care and the Intergenerational Transmission of Asthma
The Cumulative Effects of Health Insurance on Health
Grants and Fellowships
Institute for Research on Poverty Emerging Scholar Grant, University of Wisconsin Madison (PI); $19,000
Center for Research on Families Dissertation Fellowship, University of Massachusetts (PI); $10,000
Presentations
2012: National Institutes of Child Health and Development-Add Health Users Conference
2013: Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting; Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences Conference; University of
South Carolina; McGill University, University of Miami; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Bryn Mawr College; University of
New Mexico; Syracuse University; Middlebury College
2014: Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; University of Wisconsin MadisonInstitute for Research on Poverty; Southern Economic Conference
2015: University of Wisconsin Whitewater; Midwestern Economic Conference; Population Association of American Meetings
Refereeing
Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Health Economics (×3), Review of Black
Political Economy
Honors and Awards
Coffee mug, awarded by the Minnesota Population Center’s IPUMS project for discovering a significant error in the Integrated
Health Interview Survey, 2014
Solomon Barkin Award for dissertation research in labor economics. University of Massachusetts, 2012
First-Year Experience Student Choice Teaching Award. University of Massachusetts, 2011
Nominee, Lloyd B. Short Award for best thesis. University of Minnesota, 2009