Steven Stern

Steven Stern

Merrill H Bankard Professor of Economics

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6754
Personal Website

Address:
PO Box 400182
Department of Economics
Monroe Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

Research Interests

Labor economics; cross-section econometrics; economics of aging and disability

Education

• Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Pennsylvania
• Master of Arts (MA), Yale University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Yale University

Research Projects

• AS-ECON LARODR
  • Project Sponsored By: Department Of Rehabilitation Services
  • 02/12/2009 - 03/31/2011
  • Award Amount: $213,233.00

Current Downloadable Papers

"Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in a Model of Match Quality,"with Michael Brien and Lee Lillard

"Estimating Disabled People's Demand for Specialized Transportation," with Peter Bearse, Shiferaw Gurmu, and Carol Rapaport

"Long-Term Care, Formal Home Health Care, and Informal Care," (.pdf) with David Byrne, Michelle Goeree, and Bridget Hiedemann

"Approximate Solutions to Stochastic Dynamic Programs,"

"Simulation-Based Estimation,"

"Strategic Play Among Family Members when Making Long-Term Care Decisions,"with Bridget Hiedemann

"The Effect of Education Programs on Paratransit Demand of People with Disabilities" with James Fitzgerald and Donna Shaunesey

"A Test of Lazear's Mandatory Retirement Model," with Petra Todd

"The Length of Psychiatric Hospital Stays and Community Stays," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin

"Long-Term Care and Family Bargaining,"with Maxim Engers

"Survival Models of Community Tenure for the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Ten-Year Perspective," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin

"Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents," with Tennille Checkovich.

Research Papers

"Measuring the Effect of Disability on Labor Force Participation," Journal of Human Resources , 24(3): 361-395, 1989;

"Job Exit Behavior of Older Men," (with James Berkovec), Econometrica, 59(1): 189-210, 1991;

"A Method for Smoothing Simulated Moments of Discrete Probabilities in Multinomial Probit Models," Econometrica, 60(4): 943-952, 1992;

"Estimating Family Long-Term Care Decisions in the Presence of Endogenous Child Characteristics," Journal of Human Resources,30(3): 551-580, 1995;

"Semiparametric Estimates of the Supply and Demand Effects of Disability on Labor Force Participation," Journal of Econometrics, 71(1-2):49-70, 1996;

"Long-term Care and Family Bargaining," (with Maxim Engers), International Economic Review, 43(1):73-114, 2002;

"Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents," (with Tennille Checkovich), Journal of Human Resources, 37(3):441-478, 2002;

"Survival Model of Community Tenure for the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Ten Year Perspective," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin , Health Services and Outcomes Research., 2:117-135, May 2002;

"Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents," with Tennille Checkovich, Journal of Human Resources, 37(3):441-478, summer 2002;

"Estimating Disabled People's Demand for Specialized Transportation", with Peter Bearse, Shiferaw Gurmu and Carol Rapaport, Transportation Research, 38(9): 809-831, November 2004;

"Cohabitation, Marriage and Divorce in a Model of Match Quality," with Michael Brien and Lee Lillard, International Economic Review, 47(2), May 2006.