Jeff Biddle

TuTh 9:00-10:00a

• EC 499-003 | TuTh 10:20-11:40a | 106A BH
• EC 499-004 | TuTh 12:40-2:00p | 106A BH

• Workers' compensation (especially in Michigan), and issues related to workplace risks and injuries generally
• Financial behavior of religious congregations
• History of economic thought

• Air Conditioning, Migration, and Climate-Related Wage and Rent Differentials. Forthcoming, Research in Economic History.

• Explaining the Spread of Residential Air Conditioning, 1955-1980. Explorations in Economic History 45, Sept. 2008.

• Claiming Behavior in Workers' Compensation, Journal of Risk and Insurance, vol. 70, December 2003 (paper coauthored with Karen Roberts).

• Statistical Economics, 1900-1950, History of Political Economy, December 1999.

• Beauty and the Labor Market. American Economic Review, December 1994. (paper coauthored with Dan Hamermesh).

• Making Consumers Comfortable: The Early Decades of Air Conditioning in the US

• The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression and its Adoption by Agricultural Economists

• Professor Douglas's Regression: The Time Series Studies