Jonah B. Gelbach

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• 520.621.4428 office
• 520.621.8450 fax
• gelbach@email.arizona.edu
  
• McClelland Hall 401Z

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Associate Professor of Economics
Eller Fellowship

• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
  

Research Interests

• Law and Economics
• Microeconomics
• Public Economics

Current Research

Prof. Gelbach works on a variety of applied microeconomic issues. Empirical and methodological projects currently under way involve discrimination, securities litigation, welfare reform, tax policy, and bootstrap-based inference for clustered data.

Recent or Ongoing Research Papers

•  “Passive Discrimination: Compensation and Conditions of Employment as Mechanisms of Segregation” (with Jonathan Klick and Lesley Wexler). Forthcoming, University of Chicago Law Review.
• “When Do Covariates Matter? And How Much?,” in process.
• “A Simple, Nonparametric Approach to Asymptotically Valid Inference in Single-Firm Studies with One Event Date” (with Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick), in process.
• “Are Bail Amounts Racially Discriminatory? Evidence Using Outcome Analysis,” in process (joint with Shawn Bushway and Charles Loeffler).
• “Can Constant Treatment Effects Within Subgroup Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform Effects?” (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes), in process.
• “Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered Errors,” (with A. Colin Cameron and Douglas L. Miller), forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.
• “Distributional Impacts of the Self-Su ciency Project” (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes), forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics.
• “Robust Inference with Multi-way Clustering” (with A. Colin Cameron and Douglas L. Miller), under revision for resubmission.

Other Selected Publications

• “What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments” (with Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes). American Economic Review, September 2006.
• “Migration, the lifecycle, and state beneits: How low is the bottom?" Journal of Political Economy, October 2004.
• “Public Schooling for Young Children and Maternal Labor Supply,” American Economic Review, v92, n1, pp. 307-22, March, 2002.
• “Is More for the Poor Less for the Poor? The Politics of Means-Tested Targeting,” (with Lant Pritchett), Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, v2, n1 2002.