Kevin M. Murphy
American economist
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Economics
Kevin M. Murphy's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kevin Miles Murphy is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 1997 Murphy was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association, given once every two years to the most outstanding American economist under the age of forty, and widely considered to be the second most prestigious prize in economics . Murphy was cited for his study of the causes of growing income inequality between white-collar and blue-collar workers in the United States and his research linking the growth in income inequality to growth in the demand for skilled labor. His other research has covered such topics as economic growth, income inequality, valuing medical research, rational addiction, and unemployment.
Kevin M. Murphy's Published Works
Published Works
- A Theory of Rational Addiction (1988) (3761)
- Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill (1993) (2990)
- The Allocation of Talent: Implications for Growth (1990) (2357)
- Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth (1990) (2235)
- Industrialization and the Big Push (1988) (2121)
- Why Is Rent-Seeking So Costly to Growth? (1993) (1601)
- Estimation and Inference in Two-Step Econometric Models (1985) (1576)
- The Structure of Wages (1992) (941)
- The Value of Health and Longevity (2005) (872)
- Income Distribution, Market Size, and Industrialization (1988) (714)
- A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good (1993) (710)
- Empirical Age-Earnings Profiles (1990) (682)
- Accounting for the Slowdown in Black-White Wage Convergence (1991) (470)
- Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption (1991) (404)
- The Family and the State (1988) (378)
- Vertical Restraints as Contract Enforcement Mechanisms (1988) (370)
- Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment (2001) (345)
- The Transition to a Market Economy: Pitfalls of Partial Reform (1992) (341)
- Why Has the Natural Rate of Unemployment Increased Over Time? (1992) (306)
- Social Status, Education, and Growth (1996) (300)
- Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply (1996) (294)
- The Economic Value of Medical Research (2000) (286)
- Employment and the 1990-1991 Minimum-Wage Hike (1995) (248)
- Population and Economic Growth (1999) (239)
- Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An Economic Approach (2003) (238)
- Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women (2010) (219)
- Wage Premiums for College Graduates (1989) (211)
- Efficiency Wages Reconsidered: Theory and Evidence (1990) (198)
- Post-secondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality * (2005) (192)
- The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs (2006) (190)
- The Evolution of Unemployment in the United States: 1968-1985 (1987) (188)
- The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status (2005) (177)
- Governmental Regulation of Cigarette Health Information (1981) (169)
- Quality and Trade (1991) (165)
- Unemployment and Nonemployment (1997) (145)
- Building Blocks of Market Clearing Business Cycle Models (1989) (141)
- Cattle Cycles (1993) (134)
- Vertical Integration as a Self-Enforcing Contractual Arrangement (1997) (133)
- Measuring Crack Cocaine and its Impact (2013) (124)
- A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility (2018) (110)
- Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine (2005) (109)
- Occupational Change and the Demand for Skill, 1940-1990 (1993) (108)
- Current Unemployment, Historically Contemplated (2002) (96)
- Inequality and Relative Wages (1993) (86)
- The Economics of Copyright ‘Fair Use’ in a Networked World (2002) (83)
- The Return to Biomedical Research: Treatment and Behavioral Effects (2003) (74)
- On the Economics of Climate Policy (2011) (71)
- The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs (2004) (68)
- Human Capital Investment, Inequality, and Economic Growth (2016) (58)
- The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women (2010) (52)
- The Manipulation of Children’s Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children’s Human Capital (2016) (50)
- Fertility Decline, Baby Boom, and Economic Growth (2008) (50)
- A Competitive Perspective on Internet Explorer (2000) (50)
- Perspectives on the Social Security Crisis and Proposed Solutions (1998) (47)
- Terminal Care and the Value of Life Near its End (2010) (44)
- Measuring the Gains from Medical Research (2010) (41)
- Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace (2007) (32)
- WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN THE 1980S: THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE (1990) (30)
- Cohort size and earnings in the USA. (1988) (29)
- War in Iraq Versus Containment (2006) (29)
- Economic Perspectives on Software Design: Pc Operating Systems and Platforms (2001) (28)
- Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms : The Value of Equal Education Opportunity (2016) (27)
- School Performance and the Youth Labor Market (2004) (26)
- Competition in Two-Sided Markets: The Antitrust Economics of Payment Card Interchange Fees (2006) (26)
- Exclusive Dealing Intensifies Competition for Distribution (2008) (23)
- Entrepreneurial Ability and Market Selection in an Infant Industry: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry (2004) (22)
- Some Basic Economics of National Security (2013) (22)
- Inequality in Labor Market Outcomes: Contrasting the 1980's and Earlier Decades (1995) (21)
- The Economic Value of Medical Knowledge (2001) (18)
- Painting for Money (2002) (18)
- Cohort Size and Earnings (1984) (17)
- [Wage Inequality and Unemployment: United States vs. Europe]: Comment (1995) (16)
- Increasing Returns, Durables and Economic Fluctuations (1989) (16)
- Estimation and Inference in (1985) (15)
- Status, Lotteries, and Inequality (2000) (13)
- Competitive Discounts and Antitrust Policy (2014) (13)
- Wages of College Graduates (1992) (12)
- The Economics of Resale Price Maintenance (1984) (12)
- Social Value and the Speed of Innovation (2007) (10)
- Specialization, Inequality, and the Labor Market for Married Women (2002) (10)
- The division of labor (1992) (7)
- Conflict, Confusion, and Bias Under TRIPs Articles 22-24 (2003) (6)
- RECENT TRENDS IN REAL WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM HOUSEHOLD DATA (1989) (6)
- 2. Social Forces, Preferences, and Complementarity (2000) (5)
- Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights (2012) (5)
- THE EXISTENCE OF SELF-ENFORCING IMPLICIT CONTRACTS* CLIVE BULL (2007) (4)
- The Social Market for the Great Masters and Other Collectibles (2000) (4)
- The False Promise of Social Security Privatization (2001) (4)
- Organizational capital and the existence of a diversification and size ’discount’1 (2001) (3)
- Critical Loss Analysis in the Whole Foods Case (2008) (3)
- The Wages of Stardom: Law and the Winner-Take-All Society: A Debate (1999) (3)
- A Theory of Bundling Advertisements in Media Markets (2016) (2)
- Income and Wealth in America (2015) (2)
- The Impact of Crack Cocaine (2004) (2)
- Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art (2010) (2)
- The Effects of School Quality on the Youth Labor Market (2000) (2)
- DESIGN OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: (2005) (1)
- Entrepreneurial Ability , Market Selection , and Setting Up an Infant Industry – Theory and Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Textile Industry (2001) (1)
- Sample of The Power of the Economic Approach: Unpublished Manuscripts of Gary S. Becker, Edited by Julio J. Elías, Casey B. Mulligan, and Kevin M. Murphy, University of Chicago Press (Forthcoming) (2019) (1)
- The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital (2014) (1)
- Activating Actavis with a More Complete Model (2014) (1)
- 9. Fads and Fashion (2000) (1)
- Gary Becker as Teacher (2015) (1)
- Vertiacal Restraints as Contract Enforcement Mechanisms: The Coors Case (1986) (1)
- 5. Segregation and Integration in Neighborhoods (2000) (1)
- Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights (Equal Opportunity for Education) (2011) (1)
- Experience and Technology Adoption May 2002 (2002) (1)
- High-technology industries and market structure: commentary (2001) (1)
- Thomas Cole : the Cross in the Wilderness (2011) (0)
- Extremely Preliminary and Incomplete Please do not cite without permission The Impact of Crack Cocaine (2004) (0)
- 7. Social Markets and the Escalation of Quality: TheWorld of Veblen Revisited (with Edward Glaeser) (2000) (0)
- Surplus Labor and Industrialization (2015) (0)
- Human Capital , Fertility , and Economic Growth Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from Boston Library Consortium Iviember Libraries Factor Prices and Technical Change: from Induced Innovations to Recent Debates from Induced Innovations to Recent Debates Prom Induced Innovations to Recent Debates* (2011) (0)
- Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability? By Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, and Chad Syverson* (2016) (0)
- 3. Are Choices “Rational” When Social Capital Is Important? (2000) (0)
- 6. The Social Market for the Great Masters and Other Collectibles (withWilliam Landes) (2000) (0)
- C OMPETITIVE DISC OUNT S AND ANTITRUST POLICY (2014) (0)
- Editorial board (2007) (0)
- Estimation of Liabilities Due to Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites (1999) (0)
- 8. Status and Inequality (with IvánWerning) (2000) (0)
- The Economic Approach (2023) (0)
- Dynamic Bundling of Goods and Bads in Media Markets (2021) (0)
- Gary Becker Remembered (2018) (0)
- Relative Wages and Skill Demand, 1940–1990 (2019) (0)
- 4. Sorting by Marriage (2000) (0)
- 10. The Formation of Norms and Values (2000) (0)
- IN HONOR OF GARY S. BECKER—MODEL ECONOMIST (2015) (0)
- The cultural organisation of social difference and relatedness at the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea (2012) (0)
- Commentary: High-Technology Industries and Market Structure (2002) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE BACKWARD ART OF SLOWING THE SPREAD? CONGREGATION EFFICIENCIES DURING COVID-19 (2021) (0)
- Commentary: balancing growth with equity: the view from development (2011) (0)
- 1. The Importance of Social Interactions (2000) (0)
- Commentary: causes of changing earnings inequality (1998) (0)
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