Gerald
R. Marschke
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Education:
The
Fields of research and teaching interest:
Labor economics, industrial organization, public economics, organizational economics, personnel economics, economics of innovation, and technology policy
Research and teaching experience:
Current Appointments
Visiting Associate Professor, John F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University, 2008-
Wertheim Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard
Law School, Harvard University, 2008-
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and
Department of Public Administration & Policy, University at Albany, 2004-,
on leave 2008-
Faculty member, Public Policy Faculty, University at
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER), 2007-
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor
(IZA), 2005-
Past
Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and
Department of Public Administration & Policy, University at
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
Economics, University at
Research Associate, Center for Social Program
Evaluation,
Articles (refereed):
"Inventive Activity and Scholarship in Academe: Complements or Substitutes?" (with B. Goldfarb and A. Smith), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming.
"A General Test for Distortions in Performance
Measures,"
(with P. Courty), The Review of Economics
and Statistics, August 2008, 90(3), pp. 428-441.
"Making Government Accountable: Lessons from a Federal Job Training Program," (with P. Courty), Public Administration Review, September-October 2007, 67(5), pp. 904-916.
"Labor Mobility of Scientists, Technological Diffusion, and the Firm’s Patenting Decision," (with J. Kim), The Rand Journal of Economics, Summer 2005, 36(2), pp. 298-317.
"Setting the Standard in Performance Measurement Systems," (with P. Courty and C. Heinrich), International Public Management Journal, 8(3), 2005, pp. 1–27.
"Benchmarking Performance," (with P. Courty), Public Finance and Management, 4(3), 2004, pp. 288-316.
"Accounting for the recent surge in U.S. Patenting: Changes in R&D expenditures, patent yields, and the high tech sector," (with J. Kim), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 13, No. 6, September 2004, pp. 543-558.
"An Empirical Investigation of Gaming Responses to Performance Incentives," (with P. Courty), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 22, No. 1, January 2004, pp. 23-56.
"Performance Funding in Federal Agencies: A Case Study of a Federal Job Training Program," (with P. Courty), Public Budgeting and Finance, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 22-48.
"Dynamics
of Performance Measurement Systems," (with P. Courty),
"Performance
Incentives with Award Constraints," (with P. Courty), Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 38, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp. 812-45.
"Using Longitudinal
Data on Establishments to Analyze the Effects of Union Organizing Campaigns in
the United States," (with R. Lalonde and K. Troske), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, No. 41/42, Jan-June 1996, pp.
155-85.
Book Chapters:
"International Knowledge
Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set," (with J. Kim and
S. Lee), forthcoming in The Science and
Engineering Workforce in the
The following chapters in Performance
Standards in a Government Bureaucracy: Analytic Essays on the Performance Standards
Systems in Job Training Programs, (James J. Heckman and Carolyn Heinrich,
eds), W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, forthcoming. (i) "Program and Performance Standards
System Design in U.S. Employment and Training Programs," (Chapter 2, with
P. Courty, C. Heinrich, and J. Smith); (ii) "The JTPA Incentive System:
Implementing Performance Measurement and Funding," (Chapter 4, with P.
Courty); (iii) "Setting the Standards: Performance Targets and Benchmarks,"
(Chapter 5, with C. Heinrich and P. Courty); and (iv) "Overview of Dysfunctional Responses in Performance
Standards Systems," (Chapter 7, with P. Courty);
"The Economics of
Performance Incentives in Government with Evidence from a Federal Job Training
Program," Chapter 4, in Quicker, Better,
Cheaper? Managing Performance in American Government, (D. Forsythe, ed),
Rockefeller Institute Press, 2001, pp. 61-97.
"Moral Hazard Under Incentive Systems: The Case
of a Federal Bureaucracy," (with P. Courty), in Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic
Growth, (G. Libecap, ed.), Vol. 7, 1996, pp. 157-90.
Other publications:
"How Much
"The Scientific Labor
Market and University-to-Industry Knowledge Transfer," (with J. Kim), Cleveland
Federal Reserve Bank conference volume (for "Universities, Innovation, and
Economic Growth," a conference organized by the Cleveland FRB
"Performance Incentives
in Government: Evidence from a
Papers
under review:
"On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical
Specialties: Understanding Shortages and Growth in Specialization,"
(with P. Courty), IZA Discussion Paper
Series (No. 3909), December 2008.
"Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment
Incentives," (with D. Kim and P. Courty), NBER Working Paper Series (No. 14502), November 2008.
"The Design and Dynamics of Performance Measurement Systems in the Public Sector," (with Carolyn Heinrich).
Circulating working papers:
"Inventor Mobility and Knowledge Transmission in Nanotechnology," (with S. Lee and J. Kim).
"Impact of University Scientists on Innovations in Nanotechnology," (with S. Lee and J. Kim).
"The
Influence of University Research on Industrial Innovation," (with S. Lee
and J. Kim), NBER Working Paper Series (No.
11447), June 2005.
"Performance Incentives and Organizational Behavior: Evidence from a Federal Bureaucracy."
"Relation of Firm Size to R&D and
Innovative Output," (with S. Lee and J. Kim).
"Research Scientist Productivity and Firm Size:
Evidence from Panel Data on Inventors," (with S. Lee and J. Kim).
Research in progress:
"Mobility of Scientists and Technological
Diffusion," (with S. Lee and J. Kim).
"Incentives in Academia," (with P. Courty).
"The Productivity of Scientists over the Life
Cycle: Evidence from Patent Data," (with S. Lee and J. Kim).
"Scientific Teams in Commercial R&D Laboratories: Evidence from
Fellowships, grants, and
awards:
National Science
Foundation Grant SRS-0725467, 2007-2008
June Pallot Award for Best
Article, International Public Management
Journal, 2005
H. Gregg Lewis Prize for
Best Article, Journal of Labor Economics,
2004-2005
Faculty Research Assistance Program (B) Grant,
University at
Faculty Research Assistance Program (A) Grant,
University at
Young Economist Award, Royal Economics Society, 1999
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship,
1990-1992
The
Conference and other presentations:
Nanobank Research
Conference, Cambridge, MA (May 2008). Presented “Inventor Mobility and
Knowledge Transmission in Nanotechnology.”
NSF Conference on Linking
NSF Scientist and Engineering Data to Scientific Productivity Data, Arlington,
Virginia (February, 2008). Organizer.
Asian Conference 2007 on
Applied Micro-Economics/Econometrics, Seoul, Korea (December, 2007). Presented
“Incentives in Academia.”
IZA/CEPR European Summer
Symposium in Labour Economics (ESSLE), Buch am
Society of Labor Economists
meetings,
Association
for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference,
Cleveland
Federal Reserve Bank, “Universities, Innovation, and Economic Growth”
Conference,
National
Science Foundation, “Using Human Resource Data from Science Resources
Statistics, National Science Foundation, To Study the Science and Engineering
Workforce” Conference,
National
Bureau of Economic Research Productivity Conference,
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, “Academic Science
and Entrepreneurship: Dual Engines of Growth?”
Conference,
WIPO-OECD Workshop on the Use of Patent Statistics,
National Bureau of
Economic Research Summer Institute, “Academic Science and Entrepreneurship:
Dual Engines of Growth?” Pre-conference,
Association for Public
Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference,
National
Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute Conference, Productivity/Organizational
Economics/Industrial Organization Joint Meeting,
System
Dynamics Society 21st International Conference,
North
American Econometric Society meetings,
Association
for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference,
Society
of Labor Economists meetings,
Western
Economic Association meetings,
National
Bureau of Economic Research Productivity Conference,
Southern
Economic Association meetings, special session honoring James J. Heckman, 2000
Nobel Laureate in Economics, invited paper (November, 2000). Presented “The
Market for Scientists and the Recent Surge in Patenting.”
Midwest
Economic Association meetings,
Centre
for Market and Public Organisation, featured speaker at the one-day workshop,
"Incentives in Public Sector Organisations,"
North
American Econometric Society meetings,
Society
of Labor Economists meetings,
Midwest
Economic Association meetings,
Royal Economic
Society meetings,
Midwest
Economic Association meetings,
American
Economic Association meetings,
Western
Economic Association meetings,
Invited presentations in academic seminars
Case
Western University; IZA; European University Institute; London Business School;
Milken Institute; Ohio State University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Union College; University at Albany; University at Buffalo; University of
Arizona; University of Bristol; University of British Columbia; University of
Chicago; University of Maryland; University of Rochester; Upjohn Institute.
Professional service:
Referee
Contemporary Economic
Policy, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Games and Economic Behavior, International
Monetary Fund Staff Papers, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal
of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of
Political Economy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory, Labour Economics, National Science Foundation, Review of
Economics and Statistics
Member, Human
Resources Experts Panel, National Science Foundation, Division of Science
Resources Statistics (2006-present)
Western
Economic Association
Environmental
Economics (Albany, Economics, ECO 385)
Labor
Economics (Albany, Economics, ECO 370)
Organizational
Economics (Buffalo, Economics)
Intermediate
Microeconomics (Buffalo, Economics)
Graduate
Markets and
Market Policy (Kennedy School, MPP, API 101)
Labor
Economics (Albany, Economics, PhD, ECO 802)
Economic and
Financial Theory (Albany, Public Admin. & Policy, PhD, PAD 703)
Performance
Measurement and Contracting in Government (Public Admin. & Policy, MPA/MPP,
PAD 532)
Public Economics
and Finance (Public Admin. & Policy, MPA/MPP, PAD 503)
Quantitative
Methods (Public Admin. & Policy, PhD, PAD 705)
Consulting and other activities:
Consultant,
Webster Consulting Group, Inc., management consultants to the pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, and medical industries (
Consultant,
Parta Corporation (
Workers'
Compensation Claims Advisor, J.H. Askins, Inc. (
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