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Matthews Hall 214G
812 W. State St.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Academic Positions
RON A. LASCHEVER
E-mail: ronL@purdue.edu
Web: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rlaschev/
Office: (765)789-0211
Fax: (765)494-0869
Assistant Professor, Department of Consumer Sciences & Retailing and Department of
Economics, Purdue University, 2012-present
Visiting Scholar, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Fall 2011
Assistant Professor of Economics and Labor & Employment Relations, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, 2007-2012
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
Educational Background
Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2007
Dissertation: Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes of War Veterans
Chair: Dale T. Mortensen (Nobel Prize Laureate 2010)
M.A., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2002
B.A., Mathematics (cum laude), Brooklyn College CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, 2001
B.A., Computer Science, The Open University of Israel, 2000
Fellowships and Awards
List of Teachers Ranked As Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, Spring 2010
W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2008
Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Illinois Economic Association, 2004
Graduate Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2003-2006
Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2001-2002
Phi Beta Kappa, 2001
Dean’s Honor List (all semesters attended), Brooklyn College

Dept. of Mathematics Award for the Senior Prize Examination, Brooklyn College, 2000
Grants
School of Labor & Employment Relations, UIUC, Negotiations and Conflict Resolution
Grant, joint with Joon Yeol Lew, 2011-2012
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (# 10-122-02), 2010-2011
Social Security Administration Retirement Research Consortium (10-M-98363-1-01), joint
with Kristine Brown, 2008-2009
Center for Population Economics (U. of Chicago, GSB) Subgrant (NIH P01 AG10102), 2005-
2006
Graduate School Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2004
Publications and Working Papers
When They’re Sixty-Four: Peer Effects and the Timing of Retirement (with Kristine Brown),
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2012, 4(3): 90–115. [Previous
version: The NBER Retirement Research Center Paper No. NB09-17]
The Doughboys Network: Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes of World War I
Veterans, November 2011. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Labor Economics.
Keeping Up with CEO Jones: Benchmarking and Executive Compensation, December 2010.
[Cornell University Institute for Compensation Studies Working Paper No. ICS 2011-
004]. Under Review.
Peer Effects and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Los Angeles School Teachers
(with Kristine Brown), Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meetings, Labor and
Employment Relations Association, 2010.
Brothers In Arms: The Effect of Social Networks on the Employment of Veterans of the
Union Army, April 2008.
Identification and Estimation of Social Interactions Using Multiple Reference Groups,
February 2007.
Who Benefits from Direct Environmental Payments? Distributional Dynamics of the
Conservation Reserve Program (joint with Michael Roberts and Ruben Lubowski),
June 2005. Abstract appeared in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Vol.
34, No. 2 (October) 2005, pp. 285.
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Work in Progress
Competition for Donations and Within-Institution Crowd Out at Colleges and Universities
(with Burton Weisbrod).
Social Networks and Place of Employment: Evidence from the Old Man’s Draft Records.
Labor Demand: Who do Recruiters Want?
Two-Sided Interview Schedules: Evidence from the Choices of Recruiters and Job Seekers.
Social Networks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Old Man’s Draft.
Option Granting and Peer Effects (with Craig A. Olson).
Partial Identification of Social Network Structures.
Invited Seminars
Bar-Ilan University
Ben-Gurion University
Carnegie Mellon Heinz School
Center for Naval Analysis
Economic Research Service USDA
Haifa University
Harvard Business School (NOM group)
Hebrew University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Northwestern University
Purdue University
Conference Presentations
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RAND
Tel-Aviv University
Université Laval
University of California Los-Angeles
University of Chicago GSB
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Minnesota Carlson School
University of Pittsburgh
University of Oregon
Virginia Tech
Illinois Economics Association 34 th Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, 2004.
Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Annual Meetings, Annapolis,
MD, 2005.
Midwest Economic Association 69 th Annual Meetings, Milwaukee, WI, 2005.
Southern Economic Association 76 th Annual Meetings, Charleston, SC, 2006.

Western Economic Association 83 rd Annual Meetings, Honolulu, HI, 2008.
Southern Economic Association 78 th Annual Meetings, Washington D.C., 2008.
Allied Social Science Association, LERA 62 nd Annual Meetings, Atlanta, GA, January, 2010.
Society of Labor Economists 15 th Annual Meetings, London, UK, 2010.
Society of Labor Economists 16 th Annual Meetings, Vancouver, Canada 2011.
Western Economic Association 87 rd Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
Teaching Experience
Purdue University
CSR 344- Fundamentals of Negotiations (undergraduate): Fall 2012
Econ 550- Personnel Economics (masters): Fall 2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Econ 399- Independent Study (undergraduate): Fall 2008
Econ 440- Economics of Labor Markets (undergraduate): Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring
2010, Spring 2011
Econ 541- Labor Economics II (doctoral): Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
LER 545- Economics of Human Resources (masters): Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2008,
Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
Northwestern University
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Macroeconomics: Fall 2002, Winter 2003
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Microeconomics: Spring 2003
Previous Research Experience and Employment
Research Assistant to Professor Burton Weisbrod, Northwestern University, 2003-2006
Agriculture Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA, Summer 2003
Staff Sergeant, Israel Defense Forces, 1996-1999
Journal Referee (* denotes multiple papers)
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy*, Economics Bulletin*, Economic Inquiry*,
The Economic Journal, Economic Record, Industrial Relations, Journal of Business and
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Economic Statistics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization*, Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Labor Economics*,
Journal of Labor Research, Regional Science and Urban Economics
Graduate Ph.D. Student Advising (degree year, current placement)
Marcus Casey, committee member (2009, University of Illinois-Chicago)
Jason Dunick, committee member (2010, Birmingham-Southern College)
Angelo Mele, committee member (2011, Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School)
Finley Edwards, committee member (2011, Colby College, Visiting Assistant Professor)
Breno Sampaio, committee member (2011, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Hilal Atasoy, committee member (2012, Temple University, Fox School of Business)
Yuanyuan Sun, committee member
Rafael Ribas, committee member
University Service
Department of Economics Recruiting Committee, UIUC, 2011-2012
Labor Economics/LER Seminar Committee, UIUC, 2006-2009, 2011-2012
LER Ph.D. Advisory and Admissions Committee, UIUC, Spring 2008, 2010-2011
LER Masters Admissions Committee, UIUC, 2009-2010
LER On-Campus Committee, UIUC 2008-2009
LER Award Evaluation Committee, UIUC, 2009
Department of Economics Ph.D. Admissions Committee, UIUC, 2007-2009
David Kinley Lecture Committee, UIUC, 2007
Department of Economics/LER Junior Recruiting Committee, UIUC, 2006-2007
Assistant Master, Jones Residential College, Northwestern University, 2002-2006
Public Engagement
Quoted in Central Illinois Business Magazine Cover Story: “How much do you make? Salaries
range widely for area workers.” Greta Hale and Emily Fletcher, Central Illinois Business
Magazine. October: pp. 6-8, Champaign, IL. 2007.
Radio Interview (20 minutes) MidWatch, 90.1 FM WEFT- on the topic of executive
compensation. (Air date: 11/12/2008).
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Quoted in MarketWatch (The Wall Street Journal Digital Network) feature story: “Recession
hits men harder: Men's unemployment rate outpaces women's at steepest level ever.” Andrea
Coombes, MarketWatch. San Francisco. July 1, 2009.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-this-recession-is-hitting-men-harder
Interview on the extension of unemployment benefits featured on the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign Homepage as part of the “A Minute with” series. July 26, 2010.
http://illinois.edu/lb/article/72/40996
Quoted in AOL Jobs story: “If There Was a Surge of New Jobs in April, Why Are More
People Unemployed?” Kyle Stock and Jeremy Greenfield. May 6, 2011.
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/05/06/if-there-was-a-surge-of-new-jobs-in-april-why-aremore-people-u/
Quoted in FINS (The Wall Street Journal Digital Network) story: “Explaining the
Confusing April Jobs Numbers.” Chris Prentice, FINS. San Francisco. May 6, 2011.
http://www.fins.com/Finance/Articles/SB130470209341113851/Explaining-the-Confusing-
April-Jobs-Numbers
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