Joyce P. Jacobsen

Joyce Penelope Jacobsen^[1] is Andrews professor of economics at Wesleyan University, Middletown,^[2][3] and the current president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), her tenure is for 2016 to 2017.^[4] Jacobsen is also an expert for the Institute for New Economic Thinking.^[5]

Education

Jacobsen earned her A.B. from Harvard University in 1982,^[6] and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991.^[1]

Awards

• 2007 Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching^[7]

Bibliography

Books

• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (1982). Locational determinants of the U.S. insurance industry (A.B. thesis). Harvard University. OCLC 12190094. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (1991). Earnings and employment differences by race and sex, by economic sector (Ph.D. thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 38675868. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Skillman, Gilbert L. (2004). Labor markets and employment relationships: a comprehensive approach. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9780631208365. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (2007). The economics of gender (3rd ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405161824. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Zeller, Adam (2008). Queer economics: a reader. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203939451. 

Chapters in books

• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (2008), "gender roles and division of labour", in Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E., The new Palgrave dictionary of economics (2nd ed.), Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 582, ISBN 9780333786765.  Also available online.
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (2013), "Closing the gender gap: what would it take?", in Rycroft, Robert S., The economics of inequality, poverty, and discrimination in the 21st century (volume 1: causes), Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, pp. 177–193, ISBN 9780313396915. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (2013), "Gender inequality: a key global challenge –– Reducing losses due to gender inequality", in Lomborg, Bjørn, How much have global problems cost the world?: a scorecard from 1900 to 2050, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 192–206, ISBN 9781107679337. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (2014), "Section 3: How did the great recession affect poverty rates for demographic groups?: Sex, female", in Hanson, Lindsey K.; Essenburg, Timothy J., The new faces of American poverty: a reference guide to the great recession, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 322–329, ISBN 9781610691826. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (2014), "Section 3: How did the great recession affect poverty rates for demographic groups?: Sex, male", in Hanson, Lindsey K.; Essenburg, Timothy J., The new faces of American poverty: a reference guide to the great recession, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 392–395, ISBN 9781610691826. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (2014), "Changing technologies of household productions: causes and effects", in Redmount, Esther, The economics of the family: how the household affects markets and economic growth (Volume 2), Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 141–169, ISBN 9781440800566 

Journal articles

• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (May 1992). "Spillover effects from government employment". Economics Letters. Elsevier. 39 (1): 101–104. doi:10.1016/0165-1765(92)90109-C. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Rayack, Wendy L. (May 1996). "Do men whose wives work really earn less?". The American Economic Review, special issue: Papers and Proceedings of the Hundredth and Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association San Francisco, CA, January 5–7, 1996. American Economic Association. 86 (2): 268–273. JSTOR 2118135. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Newman, Andrew E. (January 1997). "What data do economists use? The case of labor economics and industrial relations". Feminist Economics. Taylor and Francis. 3 (2): 127–130. doi:10.1080/135457097338744. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Wishart Pearce III, James; Rosenbloom, Joshua L. (Summer 1999). "The effects of childbearing on married women's labor supply and earnings: using twin births as a natural experiment". Journal of Human Resources. University of Wisconsin Press via JSTOR. 34 (3): 449–474. doi:10.2307/146376. JSTOR 146376.  National Bureau of Economic Research, working paper no. 5647, (with Jaisri Gangadharan).
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (1999). "Labor force participation". The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. Elsevier. 39 (5): 597–610. doi:10.1016/S1062-9769(99)00020-4. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Levin, Laurence M. (May 2000). "The effects of internal migration on the relative economic status of women and men". The Journal of Socio-Economics. Elsevier. 29 (3): 291–304. doi:10.1016/S1053-5357(00)00075-5.  (The journal has since been renamed: The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.)
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Wishart Pearce III, James; Rosenbloom, Joshua L. (January 2001). "The effects of childbearing on married women's labor supply and earnings: using twin births as a natural experiment". Economics Letters. Elsevier. 70 (1): 133–138. doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00210-4. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (December 2001). "Modeling and measurement of transitions between income categories". Social Science Quarterly. Wiley. 82 (4): 676–679. doi:10.1111/0038-4941.00051. JSTOR 42955752. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Levin, Laurence M. (June 2002). "Calculation of returns to job tenure revisited". Applied Economics Letters. Taylor and Francis. 9 (7): 473–477. doi:10.1080/13504850110097385. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Freccia, David M.; Kilby, Peter (Spring 2003). "Exploring the relationship between price and quality for the case of hand-rolled cigars". The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. Elsevier. 43 (1): 169–189. doi:10.1016/S1062-9769(01)00131-4. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Kooreman, Peter (January 2005). "Timing constraints and the allocation of time: The effects of changing shopping hours regulations in The Netherlands". European Economic Review. Elsevier. 49 (1): 9–27. doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.03.008. SSRN 592342.  IZA Discussion Paper no. 1309.
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Robb, Robert Edgecombe; Burton, Jonathan; Blackaby, David H.; Humphries, Jane; Joshi, Heather; Wang, Xiaobo; Dong, Xiao-yuan (July 2006). "Introduction / The status of women economists in US universities and the world / The status of women economists in UK universities / The status of women economists in Canadian universities / The status of women economists in China's universities". Feminist Economics. Taylor and Francis. 12 (3): 427–474. doi:10.1080/13545700600669667. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P. (April 2007). "Law and economics: alternative economic approaches to legal and regulatory issues". Feminist Economics. Taylor and Francis. 13 (2): 224–226. doi:10.1080/13545700601184922. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Kooreman, Peter (April 2007). "A human capital-based theory of postmarital residence rules". Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Oxford Journals. 23 (1): 208–241. doi:10.1093/jleo/ewm009. SSRN 1146879. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Baker, Matthew J. (October 2007). "Marriage, specialization, and the gender division of labor". Journal of Labor Economics. Chicago Journals via JSTOR. 25 (4): 763–793. doi:10.1086/522907. JSTOR 10.1086/522907.  Pdf.
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Skillman, Gilbert L. (Winter 2007). "Dialogue: time to eliminate the penny?: Introduction". Eastern Economic Journal. Palgrave Macmillan via JSTOR. 33 (1): 137–138. doi:10.1057/eej.2007.9. JSTOR 20642336. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Skillman, Gilbert L. (Fall 2007). "Dialogue: is new classical economics a false path or an illuminating complement to Keynesian economics?: Introduction". Eastern Economic Journal. Palgrave Macmillan via JSTOR. 33 (4): 539–540. doi:10.1057/eej.2007.39. JSTOR 20642376. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Skillman, Gilbert L. (Winter 2009). "Introduction: 35th anniversary issue of the "Eastern Economic Journal"". Eastern Economic Journal. Palgrave Macmillan via JSTOR. 35 (1): 1. doi:10.1057/eej.2008.38. JSTOR 20642457. 
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Levin, Laurence M.; Tausanovitch, Zachary (30 March 2015). "Comparing standard regression modeling to ensemble modeling: how data mining software can improve economists' predictions". Eastern Economic Journal. Palgrave Macmillan. 41 (2). doi:10.1057/eej.2015.8.  Pdf.
• Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu (30 March 2015). "Convergences in men's and women's life patterns: lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment". Research in Labor Economics, special issue: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market. Emerald Group Publishing and Institute for the Study of Labor. 41: 1–33. doi:10.1108/S0147-912120140000041008. ISBN 9781784414566.  (Edited by: Solomon W. Polachek; Konstantinos Tatsiramos; and Klaus F. Zimmermann.) IZA Discussion Paper no. 8425.

See also

• International Association for Feminist Economics

References

External links

• Profile page: Joyce P. Jacobsen Wesleyan University
• Profile page: Joyce P. Jacobsen International Association for Feminist Economics
• Interview with Joyce P. Jacobsen Wesleyan University