Towson University
Louise Laurence, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
College of Business and Economics
EDUCATION

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Ph.D. in Economics, 1987

Fields:  Labor Economics, Public Finance, and Monetary Theory

 
PUBLICATIONS

"Domestic Abuse," in The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2000.

"Gender and race and the decision to go to college," coauthored with Robert Moore in Introducing Race and Gender into Economics," ed. Robin Bartlett, Routledge, 1997.

Sections on labor and education in A Methodology for Estimating the Public Costs of Family Violence in Maryland. Prepared for the Maryland Alliance Against Family Violence, September 1997.

Measuring the Costs of Domestic Violence Against Women and the Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions: An Initial Assessment and Proposals for Further Research, coauthored with Roberta Spalter-Roth as part of a joint project by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, Victim Services, Inc., and the Domestic Violence Training Project. Final Report to the Rockefeller Foundation, May 1996.

Permanent Job Loss and the U.S. System of Financing Unemployment Insurance, coauthored with Dr. Frank Brechling. Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1995.

How Large are the Subsidies Provided by the System of Financing Unemployment Insurance." The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 33(Fall), 1993.

"How Do Firm Characteristics Affect the Subsidies Provided by the Unemployment Insurance System?" Applied Economics, 9(September), 1991.

 
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Extending Your Fulbright," Fourth Annual Fulbright Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2000.

"Teaching Across Borders Using the Internet: Lessons from Eastern Europe," Out of the Margins 2, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 1998.

"Introducing an International Perspective to the Classroom Using the Internet," Lilly-Atlantic Conference on College Teaching, Towson University, April 1998.

"Service Learning in the Economics Curriculum," Lilly-Atlantic Conference on College & University Teaching, Towson University, April 1997.

"Back Home: The Impact of the Fulbright Experience on Classroom Teaching," Second Fulbright Conference on Understanding Differences and Building Bridges in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 16-19, 1996.

"Sofia at the Crossroads: A Survey of Bulgarian Working Women during the Economic Transition," Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 18-20, 1995.

"Measuring the Costs of Domestic Violence and the Cost Effectiveness of Interventions: An Initial Assessment of the State of the Art and Proposals for Further Research," Conference on the Costs of Domestic Violence, Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, June 11-12, 1995

"The Status of Women in Changing Economies: The Case of Nicaragua," VII Annual Conference on Central America, University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire, Wisconsin, April 1995

"Reforming Pedagogy in the Economics Curriculum in Bulgaria," Teaching Economics in Transitional Economies -- An International Conference, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 2-3, 1994.

"Overcoming Gender and Other Stereotypes in the Classroom," Eastern Economic Association Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March, 1994.

"Integrating Gender and Race Issues in the Principles Course," Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1993.

"The 1992 Women's Policy Agenda." Paper presented at the 1993 Conference on Feminist Economics. August 1993. American University, Washington, D.C.

"Female Labor Force Response to the Structural Adjustment Policies in Nicaragua" presented with Rosemarie Avin, University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire, Midwest Economics Association Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1993.

"Empowerment: Identifying Strategies for Economic Change." Guest speaker at the Conference for Women in Higher Education. April 1993. Buffalo, New York.

"Permanent Layoffs and Experience Rating" presented with Frank Brechling, University of Maryland--College Park, Allied Social Science Associations Meeting in Anaheim, California, January 1993.

"The Effect of Firm Characteristics on the Possibility of Cross-subsidization in Unemployment Insurance," Eastern Economic Association Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1990.

"Cross-subsidization in Unemployment Insurance: An Industry Analysis," Eastern Economic Association Meeting, Baltimore, Md. in March 1989.

 

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