Ronald L. Oaxaca

Contact Information

• 520.621.4135 office
• 520.621.8450 fax
• rlo@u.arizona.edu
• McClelland Hall 401QQ

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McClelland Professor of Economics

• Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971
  

Current Courses

• ECON 482, Labor and the Economy
• ECON 522B, Econometrics

Research Interests

• Labor Economics
• Applied Econometrics
• Applied Microeconomics

Current Research

Professor Oaxaca is conducting research on dynamic monopsony and labor market discrimination. He is also engaged in research on hierarchical segregation, statistical discrimination, consistent estimators of linear probability models, gender equity in criminal sentencing, the effects of non-neutral technological change on gender wage differentials, and optimal sick pay schemes.

Recent Research Papers

• “Results on the Bias and Inconsistency of Ordinary Least Squares for the Linear Probability Model” (with William C. Horrace), Economic Letters Volume 90, Issue 3, (March 2006), pp. 321-327.
• “A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Ability and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels” (with Tracy Regan and Galen Burghardt), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 45, No. 4 (October 2007), pp. 721-738.
• “Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions” (with Tracy Regan), Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
• “Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets:  An Experimental Analysis” (with David Dickinson), Southern Economic Journal, forthcoming.

Other Selected Publications

• “Using Econometric Models for Intrafirm Equity Salary Adjustments” (with Michael R. Ransom), Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 1, No. 1, December 2003, 221-249.
• “Wage Decompositions with Selectivity-Corrected Wage Equations: A Methodological Note” (with Shoshana Neuman), Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 2, No. 1, April 2004, 3-10.
• “Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay” (with Michael R. Ransom), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 58, No. 2, January 2005, 219-237.
• Identification in Detailed Wage Decompositions" (with Michael R. Ransom), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 81, No. 1, February 1999.