Margaret J Stevens
D.Phil., University of Oxford
Professor of Economics; Director of Undergraduate Studies
College or Institution: Lincoln College
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Research Interests
Summary: Theoretical and empirical labour economics; the economics of training. Public economics.
1. Modelling frictional labour markets – I am investigating conditions for efficiency in equilibrium search markets with non-constant returns to scale in matching.2. Education and health – including an empirical study with Katy Graddy extending earlier work on the impact of school resources on educational outcomes, and theoretical work on the public-private boundary in public-service provision.3. Foundations of welfare economics: how can theories of justice, and freedom of choice, be incorporated into the analysis of optimal taxation
Courses Taught at the University
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Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- Unemployment, Participation and Market Size (2007)
- The Impact of School Inputs on Student Performance: An Empirical Study of Private Schools in the United Kingdom (2003)
- New Microfoundations for the Aggregate Matching Function, with Empirical and Theoretical Implications (2002)
- Wage-Tenure Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market: Firms Strategies for Recruitment and Retention (2000)
- Reconciling Theoretical and Empirical Human Capital Earnings Functions (2000)
- Should Firms be Required to Pay for Vocational Training? (1999)
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