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V. Joseph Hotz

Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics

Office Phone: (919) 660-1841
Office Fax: (919) 684-8974
E-mail Address: hotz@econ.duke.edu
Location:   243 Social Science Building
Website: http://www.econ.duke.edu/~vjh3
Mailing Address: 243 Social Science Building Department of Economics Durham, NC 27708-0097
CV: Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

Fall 2013

• ECON 608D.001 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS
  
• ECON 608D.01D INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS
  
• ECON 608D.02D INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS
  
• ECON 608D.03D INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS
  
• ECON 881.13 TOPICS IN APPLIED MICROECON
  

Research Summary

V. Joseph Hotz is the Arts & Sciences Professor of Economics at Duke University, where he joined the faculty in 2007. Hotz received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He previously held faculty positions at UCLA, the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University. Hotz is a fellow of the Econometric Society and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Poverty Center, the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Hotz currently serves as a member of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics. He is an associate editor of Demography and has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Labor Economics. Hotz’s fields of interest include labor economics, the economics of the family, applied econometrics and program evaluation. He has published papers examining the relationship between the labor force participation and childbearing patterns of married women in the United States, the costs and consequences of teenage childbearing in the U.S; the effects of manpower and welfare-to-work training programs; econometric methods for estimating dynamic-discrete choice models; various aspects of the child care market in the U.S.; the impacts of early work and schooling experiences on subsequent labor market success; and the impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit in the U.S. His current and past research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. 

Publications (More Publications)

1. M. Xiao (2013) Strategic Information Disclosure: The Case of Mult-Attribute Products with Heterogeneous Consumers Economic Inquiry
2. M. Xiao (2013) Strategic Information Disclosure: The Case of Mult-Attribute Products with Heterogeneous Consumers Economic Inquiry