Douglas Webber

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Douglas Webber

  • College of Liberal Arts

    • Economics

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

ECON 1102

Microeconomic Principles

Undergraduate

ECON 1902

Honors Microeconomic Principles

Undergraduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Webber, D. (2021). A Growing Divide: The Promise and Pitfalls of Higher Education for the Working Class. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 695(1), 94-106. doi: 10.1177/00027162211026199.

  • Ost, B., Pan, W., & Webber, D. (2018). The returns to college persistence for marginal students: Regression discontinuity evidence from university dismissal policies. Journal of Labor Economics, 36(3), 779-805. doi: 10.1086/696204.

  • Webber, D. (2018). Higher Ed, lower spending: As states cut back, where has the money gone? Education Next, 18(3), 50-56.

  • Bailey, J. & Webber, D. (2018). Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and Firm Size Distribution. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 85(2), 577-595. doi: 10.1111/jori.12164.

  • Maclean, J., Webber, D., & Sindelar, J. (2018). Immigration and Access to Fringe Benefits: Evidence from the Tobacco Use Supplements. Industrial Relations, 57(2), 235-259. doi: 10.1111/irel.12205.

  • Kelchen, R. & Webber, D. (2018). Examining the Interstate Mobility of Recent College Graduates. Educational Researcher, 47(3), 213-215. doi: 10.3102/0013189X17753124.

  • Ost, B., Pan, W., & Webber, D. (2018). The impact of mass layoffs on the educational investments of working college students. Labour Economics, 51, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.008.

  • Neumeier, C., Sørensen, T., & Webber, D. (2018). The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data. Southern Economic Journal, 84(3), 716-733. doi: 10.1002/soej.12239.

  • Strain, M. & Webber, D. (2017). High school experiences, the gender wage gap, and the selection of occupation. Applied Economics, 49(49), 5040-5049. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1299100.

  • Webber, D. (2017). State divestment and tuition at public institutions. Economics of Education Review, 60, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.07.007.

  • Webber, D. (2017). Risk-sharing and student loan policy: Consequences for students and institutions. Economics of Education Review, 57, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.12.007.

  • Bailey, J. & Webber, D. (2017). The political roots of health insurance benefit mandates. Journal of Economic Studies, 44(2), 170-182. doi: 10.1108/JES-07-2015-0137.