DONALD R. DEERE
BUSINESS ADDRESSES
Welch Consulting
1716 Briarcrest Drive, #700
Bryan, Texas 77802
(979) 846-0303 |
Department of Economics, Texas A&M University
4228 TAMU
College Station, Texas 78840
(979) 845-2059 |
EDUCATION
B.S., Economics, Texas A&M University, 1978.
Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.
CURRENT RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Senior Consultant, Welch Consulting, College Station, Texas, 1991-Present.
Associate Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1990-Present.
Senior Economist, Unicon Research Corporation, 2001-Present.
PREVIOUS RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Research Fellow, Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1992-2005.
Vice President, Unicon Research Corporation, 2001-2004.
Associate Director for Academic Programs, George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas
A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1996-1999.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988-1989.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1983-1990.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellowships: |
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
- Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
- Sloan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship.
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| Research: |
- Grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation, "Social Security, Wages and Retirement," 1995.
- Four Contracts with the Texas Workers' Compensation Research Center, "Nonsubscription to the Texas Workers' Compensation System," 1992-1995.
- Grant from the Texas Advanced Research Program, "Unionization, Profitability, and Firm Behavior," 1988.
- Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "Demand Variability, Structural Changes in the Labor Market and the Growth of Part-Time Employment," with S.G. Bronars, 1984.
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PUBLICATIONS
"Educational Wage Premia and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey," with Jelena Vesovic in Handbook of the Economics of Education, edited by R. Hanushek and F. Welch, Elsevier Science, forthcoming.
"Inequality, Incentives, and Opportunity, with F. Welch. Social Philosophy & Policy, 19, no. 1, (Winter 2002). Also in Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter? edited by E.F. Paul, F.D. Miller, Jr. and J. Paul. Cambridge University Press (2002):84-109.
"Trends in Wage Inequality in the United States," in Increasing Inequality in America: The Facts, Causes, and Consequences, edited by F. Welch. University of Chicago Press, (2001).
"Don't Raise the Minimum Wage - The Bar is Already Too High," Brief Analysis No. 270, NCPA, June 1998.
"Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment Following the 1990/91 Increase in the Federal Minimum Wage," with K. Murphy and F. Welch. In Effects of the Minimum Wage, edited by M. Kosters. AEI Press, (1996).
"Minimum Sense: Raising Wages from $4.25 to $5.15 an Hour Will Cause Lower Skilled Workers to Lose Their Jobs," Texas Business, September 1996.
"Employment and the 1990/91 Minimum Wage Hike," with K. Murphy and F. Welch. American Economic Review, 85, no. 2, (May 1995):232-37.
"Sense and Nonsense on the Minimum Wage," with K. Murphy and F. Welch. Regulation, 18, no.1, (1995):47-56.
"Home Equity: Texas Should Unlock This Asset," The Dallas Morning News, April 23, 1995.
"Unionization and Profitability: Evidence of Spillover Effects," with S.G. Bronars, Journal of Political Economy, (December 1994):1281-87.
"The Effects of Unions on Firm Behavior: An Empirical Analysis using Firm-Level Data," with S.G. Bronars and J.S. Tracy, Industrial Relations, (October 1994):426-51.
"A Study of Nonsubscription to the Texas Workers' Compensation System: The Employee Perspective," (July 1994) Texas Workers' Compensation Research Center.
"A Study of Nonsubscription to the Texas Workers' Compensation System," Texas Workers' Compensation Research Center, (August 1993).
"Union Organizing Activity, Firm Growth, and the Business Cycle," with S.G. Bronars. American Economic Review, (March 1993):203-20.
"Unionization, Incomplete Contracting, and Capital Investment," with S.G. Bronars. The Journal of Business, (January 1993):117-32.
Review of "Labor Unions and the Economic Performance of Firms," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (July 1993):732-33.
"Unemployment Insurance and Employment." Journal of Labor Economics, (October 1991):307-24.
"The Threat of Unionization, the Use of Debt, and the Preservation of Shareholder Wealth," with S.G. Bronars. Quarterly Journal of Economics, (February 1991):231-54.
"Union Representation Elections and Firm Profitability," with S.G. Bronars. Industrial Relations, (Winter 1990):15-37.
"On the Potential for Private Insurers to Reduce the Inefficiencies of Moral Hazard." International Review of Law and Economics, (December 1989):219-22.
"Internal Labor Markets, Large Personnel Systems, and the Military." Economics of Defense Manpower Conference Final Report, United States Air Force Academy, (June 1988).
"Bilateral Trading as an Efficient Auction Over Time." Journal of Political Economy, (February 1988):100-15.
"Labor Turnover, Job-Specific Skills, and Efficiency in a Search Model." Quarterly Journal of Economics, (November 1987):815-33. |
