Department of Economics
Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002
Office Phone: (413) 542-8517
Cell Phone: (413) 221-3174
Email: jwreyes at amherst.edu
Website: http://www.amherst.edu/~jwreyes
| 2002 – present | Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College |
| 2003 – 2004 | Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2001 – 2002 | Post-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research |
| 1997 | Research Assistant for Professors Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin, Harvard University |
| 1995 – 1996 | Associate, The Parthenon Group, Management Consulting, Boston, MA |
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1997-2002) Ph.D. in Economics, June 2002 Thesis title: “The Impact of Lead Exposure on Crime and Health, and An Analysis of the Market for Physicians.” Nominated for Wells Dissertation Prize.
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England (1994-1995) Diploma in Mathematical Statistics. Winston Churchill Scholar. Loeb Scholar. Alpha diploma project.
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (1990-1994) Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Phi Beta Kappa.
Primary fields: Health Economics, Public Finance, Labor Economics
Secondary fields: Environmental Economics, Public Health, Social Policy, Applied Econometrics
| 2005, 2007 | Curricular Development Grant from Dayton Fund for Environmental Science, Amherst College |
| 2004 | Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin, awarded |
| 2003, 2005 | Pilot Project, National Institute on Aging, National Bureau of Economic Research |
| 2001 – 2002 | Post-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research |
| 1999– 2000 | Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research |
| 1998 – 2001 | Inequality and Social Policy Program Doctoral Fellow, Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 1997 – 2001 | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Harvard University |
| 1997 | Harvard University Economics Department Prize Fellowship, Harvard University |
| 1997 | Rufus B. Kellogg Graduate Fellowship, Amherst College |
| 1994 – 1995 | Winston Churchill Foundation Scholar, Cambridge University, Cambridge England |
| 1993 | Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College |
| 2006 - present | Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research |
Referee for Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Health Affairs, Journal of Health Economics.
Member: American Economic Association, American Society of Health Economists, International Health Economics Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Eastern Economic Association, National Tax Association.
Invited discussant: session on Gender and Health, Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, January 2005; session on Prescription Drug Advertising, International Health Economics Association Annual Meeting, January 2005.
Member, International Advisory Council, Kyoto World Cities 20/20 Challenge, EcoPlan International
Amherst College Faculty Colloquium Series, “Social Toxicity of Environmental Toxins,” November 2008 (planned).
Jersey Shore Medical Center Research Symposium, “Gender Gaps in Obstetrics and Gynecology,” June 2008 (planned).
Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, Rochester, New York, “Lead and Crime: The Societal Costs of Childhood Lead Poisoning,” February 2008.
University of Rochester Environmental Health Sciences Center, “The Social Toxicity of Environmental Toxicants: An Economist’s Perspective,” February 2008.
University of Massachusetts Resource Economics Seminar, “Lead Exposure and Antisocial Behavior,” September 2007.
RAND Corporation, Health Economics Seminar Series, “Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Aggression and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents,” April 2007.
American Economic Association Annual Meeting, “Do Female Physicians Capture Their Scarcity Value? The Case of OB/GYNs,” January 2007.
National Tax Association, Annual Conference on Taxation, “The Effect of College Financial Aid Rules on the Allocation of Savings,” November 2006.
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute on Aging, “College Financial Aid Rules and the Allocation of Savings,” July 2006.
American Society of Health Economists Annual Meeting, June 2006, paper accepted.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study colloquium on “Life at the Top: The Career Trajectories of Female Professionals,” “Doctors and Lawyers,” May 2006.
Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, “Environmental Policy as Social Policy,” May 2006.
Harvard Law School, Harvard Labor Worklife Forum, Police Union Leadership Seminar, “Why is Crime Down, and What Does it Mean for Police Unions?” April 2006.
Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, “Gender Discrimination and Rationing in the Physicians’ Services Market,” February 2006.
Williams College Economics Department Seminar Series, “Implicit Taxes from College Financial Aid Rules and the Allocation of Savings,” November 2005.
Baylor College of Medicine, “The Impact of Prenatal Lead Exposure on Infant Health,” May 2003.
Rice University and University of Houston Applied Micoreconomics Seminar Series, “The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime,” April 2003.
Harvard School of Public Health, “Environmental Toxins and Social Behavior,” April 2003.
Brown University, “The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime,” March 2003.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, “Environmental Policy as Social Policy,” February 2003.
University of Texas at Austin Economics Department, “The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime,” January 2003.
Boston University, “The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime,” January 2003.
Amherst College, “The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime,” December 2001.
Harvard University Labor Seminar, “Lead Exposure and Social Behavior,” October 2001.
“Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime,” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 7: Issue 1 (Contributions), October 2007. (earlier version National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13097, May 2007.)
“Reaching Equilibrium in the Market for Obstetricians and Gynecologists,” American Economic Review, 97(2), May 2007.
“Gender Preference and Equilibrium in the Imperfectly Competitive Market for Physician Services,” Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming 2007. (earlier version National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12528, September 2006.)
“Gender Gaps in Income and Productivity of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, 109:1031-1039, May 2007.
“College Financial Aid Rules and the Allocation of Savings,” Education Economics, forthcoming 2007.
“College Financial Aid Rules and the Allocation of Savings,” Proceedings of the National Tax Association 2006.
“The Effect of Malpractice Liability on Obstetrics and Gynecology,” in submission, 2008.
“The Impact of Prenatal Lead Exposure on Infant Health,” mimeo, 2005.
“Low Wage Women in the Twentieth Century: Unjustly Excluded”, in submission, 2005.
“Teaching Students How to Do Economic Research in a Senior Seminar”
“Review of Troesken’s The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster,” Journal of Economic History, 67(3):823-824, September 2007.
“Lead,” Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
“The Clean Air Act,” Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
“Legislative Bargaining in the Context of Uncertain Tax Liability,” mimeo.
“Causes and Correlates of Juvenile Delinquency in Young Males,” alpha diploma project, University of Cambridge, 1995.
“Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Aggression and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents”
“Gender Gaps in Career and Family Outcomes: The Case of Physicians”
“Do Physicians Subsidize Medicaid?”
“Children's Blood Lead Levels and Academic Performance”
“A Consistent Model of Fetal and Infant Health”
“The Role of Race in Lead Exposure”
“Air Rage,” Amherst Magazine, Emily Gold Boutilier, Winter 2008.
“Eureka! Did an early `green' law change the way people act?” Daily Hampshire Gazette, by Kristin Palpini, December 28, 2007.
“Holiday Shopping Season Brings Toy Safety into Focus,” NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, interview by Paul Solman, aired December 20, 2007. (Also shown on HDNet December 18, 2007.)
“Moins de plomb dans l'essence, moins de crimes violents,” La Presse, by Mathieu Perreault, November 26, 2007.
“Lead in Housing ” NewsCenter5 Boston, Team5 Investigates, by Rhondella Richardson, November 2007.
“Societal Effects of Leaded Gasoline,” in “Carbon Foot Printing and Carbon Offsetting,” LandLine Now, XM Satellite Radio, interview by Reed Black, aired November 8, 2007.
“New York Times Magazine Features Professor Reyes,” The Amherst Student, Ricardo Bilton, October 31, 2007.
“Factors Affecting Crime Rates,” The Dom Giordano Show, WPHT Philadelphia , interview by Dom Giordano, aired October 22, 2007.
“Criminal Element,” New York Times Magazine, by Jascha Hoffman, October 21, 2007.
Cited as “Best Environment Article” in “Other Magazines: Grave Matter,” Slate, by Brad Flora, October 19, 2007.
“Compelling Crime Story: The Lead in the Air Did It,” Chicago Tribune, by Robert Mitchum, August 19, 2007.
“Lead and Crime,” Freakonomics Blog, New York Times, by Steven Levitt, July 9, 2007 and October 30, 2007.
March 2008
Department of
Economics
307 Converse Hall — Amherst College
— Amherst, MA
(413) 542.8517— jwreyes@amherst.edu