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V. Joseph Hotz

V. Joseph Hotz

Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics
Contact Info 
Location: 220B Social Science Building
Office Phone: (919) 660-1841
Office Fax: (919) 684-8974
Email Address:  send me a message
Website: http://www.econ.duke.edu/~vjh3
Mailing Address: 220B Social Science Building Department of Economics Durham, NC 277080097
Teaching (Fall 2012):

  • ECON 608D.002, INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS Synopsis
    TBA, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • ECON 608D.02D, INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS Synopsis
    Social Sciences 229, Th 06:15 PM-07:10 PM
  • ECON 608D.03D, INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS Synopsis
    Social Sciences 229, W 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
  • ECON 881.05, TOPICS IN APPLIED MICROECON Synopsis
    Social Sciences 111, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
  • ECON 881.06, TOPICS IN APPLIED MICROECON Synopsis
    Social Sciences 111, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Research Interests:
Labor Economics, Economics of the Family, Applied Econometrics

Research Summary:

V. Joseph Hotz is the Arts & Sciences Professor of Economics at Duke University, where he joined the faculty in 2007. Hotz received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He previously held faculty positions at UCLA, the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University. Hotz is a fellow of the Econometric Society and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Poverty Center, the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Hotz currently serves as a member of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics. He is an associate editor of Demography and has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Labor Economics. Hotz’s fields of interest include labor economics, the economics of the family, applied econometrics and program evaluation. He has published papers examining the relationship between the labor force participation and childbearing patterns of married women in the United States, the costs and consequences of teenage childbearing in the U.S; the effects of manpower and welfare-to-work training programs; econometric methods for estimating dynamic-discrete choice models; various aspects of the child care market in the U.S.; the impacts of early work and schooling experiences on subsequent labor market success; and the impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit in the U.S. His current and past research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. 

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. with Peter Arcidiacono and Songman Kang, Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 166 no. 1 (January, 2012), pp. 3-16  [abs].
  2. P. Arcidiacono, E. Aucejo, P. Coate, V. J. Hotz, The Effects of Proposition 209 on College Enrollment and Graduation Rates in Californi (Submitted, December, 2011) [pdf]  [abs].
  3. with Mo Xiao, The Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality of Care in Child Care Markets, American Economic Review, vol. 101 no. 5 (August, 2011), pp. 1775-1805  [abs].
  4. with K. McGarry and E. Wiemers, Living Arrangements of Mothers and their Adult Children over the Life Course (Submitted, December, 2010) (Under review.) [pdf]  [abs].
  5. with Federico Bugni, Esteban Aucejo, Identification of Regressions with Missing Covariate Data (August, 2010) .