Purdue University

Kevin J. Mumford, Ph.D. Stanford (2007)
Assistant Professor of Economics

Contact Information:
Department of Economics
Purdue University
100 S. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2076

E-mail: mumford@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 496-6773
Fax: (765) 496-7434
Office: RAWL 4026

• "Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing Market Boom and Bust"
Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming)
with Michael F. Lovenheim


• "Women and the Choice to Study Economics"
Journal of Economic Education (2012) 43:4, 349-362.
with Tisha L. N. Emerson and KimMarie McGoldrick


• "A Bayesian Analysis of Payday Loans and Their Regulation"
Journal of Econometrics (2012) 171:2, 205-216.
with Mingliang Li and Justin L. Tobias


• "Measuring Inclusive Wealth at the State Level in the United States"
in UNU-IHDP and UNEP (2012) Inclusive Wealth Report 2012. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, pp. 69-86.
Full report: Inclusive Wealth Report 2012


• "Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth"
Environment and Development Economics (2012) 17:3, 317-353.
with Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence Goulder, and Kirsten Oleson
Comments on this paper by Robert Solow, Kirk Hamilton, and Sjak Smulders.


• "Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment"
American Economic Review (2011) 101:4, 1616-28.
with Gopi Shah Goda and Richard Crump.


• "Student Performance in Undergraduate Economics Courses"
Journal of Economic Education (2011) 42:3, 275-282.
with Matthew W. Ohland.

• "How Costly is Welfare Stigma? Separating Psychological Costs from Time Costs" (with Colleen Flaherty Manchester) Krannert Working Paper 1229
Revise and Resubmit


• "Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth: Further Reflections" (with Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence Goulder, and Kirsten Oleson)
under review


• "Personal Income Tax Salience: Evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Credit Expansion" (with Benjamin M. Miller)
under review


• "Engineering Cooperative Education Participation" (with Brock E. Barry, Russell A. Long, and Matthew W. Ohland)
under review


• "Child Benefits in the U.S. Federal Income Tax" Krannert Working paper 1230



• " Welfare Stigma due to Public Disapproval" (with Colleen Flaherty Manchester)



• "The Impact of Health Shocks on Employment" (with Jianyu Tu)



• "Who Benefits from a Minimum Wage Increase?" (with John W. Lopresti)



• "The Optimal Tax Treatment of Families with Children" SIEPR Discussion Paper 06-020