Glen Waddell

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Degree History:

PhD, Economics, Purdue University, 2000
MS, Economics, Purdue University, 1998
MA, Economics, Miami University, 1996
BS, Economics, Trent University, 1995

Professional Leadership Positions:

Associate Editor, Economics of Education Review
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany

Research/Teaching Awards:

Mortar Board Professor of the Term, University of Oregon, Winter 2008
Feldman Faculty Fellowship, University of Oregon, 2007
Junior Professorship Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Summer Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, 2004
William J. Walsh Fellowship, University of Oregon, 2002
New Faculty Award, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Oregon, 2002
Reinhold Foundation Award, University of Oregon, 2001

Bio:

Waddell is a professor of economics at the University of Oregon, and he teaches managerial economics at the Oregon Executive MBA in Portland, Oregon.

His research interests are in the economics of education, health economics, risky behaviors, personnel economics, and the importance of physical and qualitative spaces in determining economic outcomes. He teaches micro principles, labor, and industrial organization at the undergraduate level, and contract theory, labor, and advanced econometrics at the graduate level.

Articles

Waddell, Glen R., Jason M. Lindo, and Isaac D. Swensen. "Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access." Journal of Health Economics, 32, no. 1: 22-32. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.09.009
January 2013
Waddell, Glen R., Jason M. Lindo, and Isaac D. Swensen. "Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?" American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4, no. 4: 254-274. https://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.4.4.254
October 2012
Waddell, Glen, Harold Cuffe, William Harbaugh, Jason Lindo, and Giancarlo Musto. "Evidence of the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living." Economics of Education Review, 31, no. 6: 1028-1036. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.07.001
September 2012
Waddell, Glen. "Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties." Economics of Education Review, 31, no. 6: 961-969. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.07.002
August 2012
Waddell, Glen R. "Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity." Economic Inquiry, 50, no. 1: 248-263. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00374.x
July 2012
Waddell, Glen, Alan Barreca, Melanie Guldi, and Jason Lindo. "Saving Babies? Revisiting the Effect of Very Low Birth Weight Classification." The Quarterly Journal of Economic, 126, no. 4: 2117-2123. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr042
May 2011
Waddell, Glen, John Barron, and Smitriy Chulkov. "Top Management Team Turnover, CEO Succession Type, and Strategic Change." Journal of Business Research, 64, no. 8: 904-910. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.09.004
April 2011
Waddell, Glen R., and Larry D. Singell Jr. "Do No-Loan Policies Change the Matriculation Patterns of Low-Income Students?" Economics of Education Review, 30, no. 2: 203-214. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.10.004
March 2011
Waddell, Glen R., Larry D. Singell Jr. "Modeling Retention at a Large Public University: Can At-Risk Students be Identified Early Enough to Treat?" Research in Higher Education, 51, no. 6: 546-572. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11162-010-9170-7
September 2010
Waddell, Glen, Oguzhan Dincer, and Chris Ellis. "Corruption, Decentralization and Yardstick Competition." Economics of Governance, 11, no. 3: 269-294. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10101-009-0067-x
August 2010
Waddell, Glen, Bruce Blonigen, Ronald Davies, and Helen Naughton. "Spacey Parents: Spatial Autoregressive Patterns in Inbound FDI." In Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise, edited by Steven Brakman and Harry Garretsen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
January 2008
Waddell, Glen, and John Barron. "Work Hard, Not Smart: Stock Options in Executive Compensation." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66, no. 3: 767-790. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2006.07.002
January 2008
Waddell, Glen, John Barron, and John Umbeck. "Consumer and Competitor Reactions: Evidence from a Retail-Gasoline Field Experiment." International Journal of Industrial Organization, 26, no. 2: 517-531. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2007.03.002
January 2008
Waddell, Glen, Danill Mcmillen, and Larry Signell. "Spatial Competition and the Price of College." Economic Inquiry, 45, no. 4: 817-833. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2007.00049.x
January 2007
Waddell, Glen, Bradley Curs, and Larry Singell. "Money for Nothing? The Impact of Changes in the Pell Grant Program on Institutional Revenues and the Placement of Needy Students." Education Finance and Policy, 2, no. 3: 228-261. https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp.2007.2.3.228
January 2007
Waddell, Glen, Bruce Blonigen, Ronald Davies, and Helen Naughton. "FDI in Space: Spatial Autoregressive Relationships in Foreign Direct Investment." European Economic Review, 51, no. 5" 1303-1325. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.08.006
January 2007
Waddell, Glen, Bradley Curs, and Larry Signell. "The Pell Program at Thirty Years." In Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research Vol. XXII, edited by John C. Smart. New York: Springer.
January 2007
Waddell, Glen, Bradley Curs, and Larry Singell. "Hope for the Pell? Institutional Effects in the Intersection of Merit-Based and Need-Based Aid." Southern Economic Journal, 73, no. 1: 79-99. https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20111875
January 2006
Waddell, Glen. "Labor-Market Consequences of Poor Attitude and Low Self-Esteem in Youth." Economic Inquiry, 44, no. 1: 69-97. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ei/cbj005
January 2006
Waddell, Glen, and John Barron. "Executive Rank, Pay and Project Selection." Journal of Financial Economics, 67, no. 2: 305-349. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-405X(02)00254-4
January 2003
Waddell, Glen, John Barron, and Bradley Ewing. "The Effects of High School Athletic Participation on Education and Labor Market Outcomes." The Review of Economics and Statistics, 82, no. 3: 409-421. https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/003465300558902
January 2000

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