Robert J. Lemke
Associate Professor
Department of Economics and Business
Lake Forest College

Curriculum Vitae
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Contact Information

418 Young Hall
555 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045
Phone: 847-735-5143
Fax: 847-735-6193
E-mail: lemke@lakeforest.edu

Classes:

Spring 2010
ECON 210 Microeconomic Theory
MLS 528 On Liberty

Previously
ECON 130 Economic Statistics
ECON 180 Quantitative Methods
ECON 210 Microeconomic Theory
ECON 310 Industrial Organization
ECON 320 Labor Economics
ECON 330 Econometrics
ECON 370 Managerial Economics
ECON 385 Mathematical Economics
FIYS 126 The Funding of Public Education in Chicago
FIYS 197 Foundations of Economic Thinking
MLS 528 On Liberty

Publications:

Estimating Attendance at Major League Baseball Games for the 2007 Season, Journal of Sports Economics, with Matthew Leonard and Kelebogile Tlhokwane, forthcoming. [PDF File]

Generating Doctoral Degree Candidates at Liberal Arts Colleges, in Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future, Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Charlotte V. Kuh, editors, Cornell University Press, 2009, pp. 93 - 108.

Freedom and Transparency: Democracies, Non-Democracies, and Conventional Arms Transfers, Democracy and Security, with James Marquardt, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2007, pp. 343 - 368. [PDF File]

Extending Monopoly Power under Joint Production: A Case Study of the Red Cross and the Blood Centers of America, Journal of Industrial Organization Education, with Kristina Lybecker, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2007, pp. 1 - 23. [PDF File]

The Transition from Welfare to Work, Eastern Economic Journal, with Rob Witt and Ann Witte, vol 33(2), Summer 2007, pp. 359-373. [PDF file] (Data Appendix)

When Winning is the Only Thing: Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria in a Three Candidate Spatial Voting Model, Social Choice and Welfare, with Richard A. Chisik, vol 26(1), January 2006, pp. 209-215. [PDF File]

Student Assessments, Non-Test-Takers, and School Accountability, Education Economics, with Claus Hoerandner and Robert McMahon, vol 14(2), June 2006, pp. 235-250. [PDF File]

Can No Child Left Behind Close the Gaps in Pass Rates on Standardized Tests?, Contemporary Economic Policy, with Claus Hoerandner, vol 24(1), January 2006, pp. 1-17. [PDF File]

Do Estate and Gift Taxes Affect the Timing of Private Transfers?, Journal of Public Economics, with Douglas Bernheim and John Karl Scholz, vol 88(12), December 2004, pp. 2617-2634. [PDF File]

Dynamic Bargaining with Action-Dependent Valuations, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol 28(9), July 2004, pp. 1847-1875. [PDF File]

Estimating the Union Wage Effect for Public School Teachers when all Teachers are Unionized, Eastern Economic Journal, vol 30(2), Spring 2004, pp. 273-291. [PDF File]

Skill, Parental Income, and IV Estimation of the Returns to Schooling, Applied Economics Letters, with Isaac Rischall, vol 10(5), April 2003, pp. 281-286. [PDF File]

Inter-firm Complementarities in R&D: A Re-examination of the Relative Performance of Joint Ventures, International Journal of Industrial Organization, with Nejat Anbarci and Santanu Roy, vol 20(2), February 2002, pp. 191-213. [PDF File]

Working Papers:

"Economics BA's and Ph.D.'s from Liberal Arts Colleges: Do Degree Requirements or Faculty Scholarship Matter?" with Ted Barzev, Linna Filipova, and Veska Suleva, ERN Educator Working Paper Series, http://ssrn.com/abstract=654241, January 25, 2005.

"Do Estate and Gift Taxes Affect the Timing of Private Transfers?," with B. Douglas Bernheim and John Karl Scholz, NBER Working Paper #8333, June 2001.

"Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition," with Ann D. Witte, Magaly Queralt, and Robert Witt, NBER Working Paper #7583, March 2000.

Students:

Lake Forest College
			Stoyan Vlaikov '03, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Economics, M.A. 2006).
			Emily Cocanower '05, Harvard University (Law, J.D., 2008).
			Loveena Dookhony '05, Maxwell School, Syracuse Univesity (Public Policy Administration, MPA 2007).
			Joshua Gordon-Blake '06, University of Chicago (Law).
			James Herold '06, University of Iowa (Economics).
			Katie Lupo '06, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Economics); Fulbright Scholarship, Berlin, Germany.
			Derek Drayer '06, University of Florida (Economics).
			Paula Moreno '06, Loyola University (Law).
			Amanda Gaulke '09, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Economics).
			Mariyana Zapryanova '09, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Economics).
Florida International University
			Sandra Barragan '02, George Washington University (Law, J.D. 2005).
			Lauren Luis '02, University of Miami (Law, J.D. 2005).
			Susan Snitcovsky '02, University of Miami (Law, J.D. 2005).
			Chantell Vichot '02, University of Miami (Law, J.D. 2005).
			Melissa Sekkel '03, University of Michigan (Economics, M.A. 2006).

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