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Robert LaLonde

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PhD Economics University of Chicago
Masters Economics University of Chicago
Bachelors Economics University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Robert John LaLonde was an American economist who specialized in the fields of labor economics and econometrics. He grew up in Syracuse, NY and attended Westhill High School. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Chicago in 1980. He then attended Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1985 under the supervision of Orley Ashenfelter. His own Ph.D. students included Brian Jacob. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1985 as Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the Graduate School of Business and was a Visiting Associate Professor of The Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies from 1994-1995. In 1995, LaLonde joined Michigan State University as an Associate Professor of Economics for three years. In 1999, he went on to spend the remainder of his professional career at the University of Chicago, where he was professor and director of the Ph.D. program in the Harris School of Public Policy. In addition to his academic appointments, he was a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1986, and was a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers from 1987 to 1988. He joined the IZA Institute of Labor Economics as a research fellow in 2001. He was honored with a conference held by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2018. He died on January 17, 2018, after a long illness.

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Robert LaLonde's Published Works

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The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs (1999) (3373)
Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data (1984) (2068)
THE EFFECT OF SAMPLE SELECTION AND INITIAL CONDITIONS IN DURATION MODELS: EVIDENCE FROM EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON TRAINING (1996) (381)
Labor Market Adjustments to Increased Immigration (1991) (339)
The Promise of Public Sector-Sponsored Training Programs (1995) (317)
Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers (2001) (298)
Economic impact of international migration and the economic performance of migrants. (1993) (283)
Immigrants in the American Labor Market: Quality, Assimilation, and Distributional Effects (1991) (252)
Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden (2000) (230)
Bordeaux Wine Vintage Quality and the Weather (1995) (192)
The Impact of Being Offered and Receiving Classroom Training on the Employment Histories of Disadvantaged Women: Evidence from Experimental Data (1997) (179)
The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets (1990) (161)
Long-term earnings losses of high-seniority displaced workers (1993) (161)
Theory and measurement (1996) (129)
The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers: Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? (2005) (124)
Employment and Training Programs (2003) (101)
The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women (2005) (89)
Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers (1999) (74)
Is Retraining Displaced Workers a Good Investment (2005) (46)
Alternative methods of estimating program effects in event history models (2002) (44)
Using Longitudinal Data on Establishments to Analyze the Effects of Union Organizing Campaigns in the United States (1996) (43)
The Case for Wage Insurance (2007) (38)
Estimates of Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers Using California Administrative Data (2002) (33)
Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Urban Communities: The Urban Change Project and Methodological Considerations. The Project on Devolution and Urban Change. (2000) (33)
Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers (2003) (30)
Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables (2015) (29)
Special issue on Experimental and non-experimental evaluation of economic policy and models (2005) (26)
The Economics of Training (1996) (20)
Hard Times for Unions: Another Look at the Significance of Employer Illegalities (1991) (18)
Female Offenders' Use of Social Welfare Programs Before and after Jail and Prison: Does Prison Cause Welfare Dependency? (2006) (15)
Policies to Reduce High-Tenured Displaced Workers' Earnings Losses through Retraining. Discussion Paper 2011-11. (2011) (14)
The return from community college schooling for displaced workers (1997) (14)
Estimating the Effect of Training on Employment and Unemployment Durations: Evidence from Experimental Data (1991) (13)
The returns from classroom training for displaced workers (1994) (12)
The relationship between re-incarceration and their own childhood foster care experience of women ☆ (2016) (9)
Assessment of the Florida College and Career Readiness Initiative: Year 1 Report. (2013) (8)
Estimating (Easily Interpreted) Dynamic Training Effects from Experimental Data (2017) (6)
Building capacity to evaluate health and nutrition programs. (2009) (6)
Do Displaced Workers Benefit from Community College Courses? Findings from Administrative Data and Directions for Future Research (2005) (5)
Should Government Go It Alone or with a Partner: A Comparison of Outcomes from a Work Release Program Using Different Policy Tools (2015) (5)
Incarcerated Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes (2017) (4)
The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women (2008) (4)
Testing for Selection Bias (2014) (4)
Looking into the Black Box: Using Experimental Data to Find out How Training Works (1994) (4)
Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs. (1994) (3)
Retraining Displaced Workers. Policy Brief. (2010) (2)
12 – Bordeaux Wine Vintage Quality and the Weather (2009) (2)
The relationship between motherhood and re-incarceration (2015) (1)
At Home: The Costs of Worker Dislocation (1994) (1)
Prison Work-Release Programs and Incarcerated Women’s Labor Market Outcomes (2015) (1)
The manpower report of KEPE : the characteristics of the Greek labor market (1986) (1)
Active Labor Market Policies (2016) (1)
Evidence from a Field Experiment (2006) (0)
The Returns to Schooling for Displaced Workers (2012) (0)
Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs (1994) (0)
Education: Skill Training (2001) (0)
Net Impact Evaluation of Retraining under ESHB 1988. (1997) (0)
12. Vocational Training (2019) (0)
Book reviews: Income and social security and substandard working conditions (1994) (0)
Upjohn Research Upjohn Research Introduction [to The Costs of Worker Dislocation] Introduction [to The Costs of Worker Dislocation] (2020) (0)
The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings edited by Douglas J. Besharov and Phoebe H. Cottingham (2012) (0)

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