Department of Economics Kent State University P.O. Box 5190 Kent, OH 44242 Office: 468 Business Administration Building Phone: (330) 672-1089 Fax: (330) 672-9808 Email: creynol9@kent.edu EDUCATION CURRICULUM VITAE CURTIS LOCKWOOD REYNOLDS Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 2007 M.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 2004 B.A., Economics (with honors) and Japanese, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2001 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE August 2014- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Kent State University August 2007-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Kent State University 2007 Instructor, University of Michigan 2005 Instructor, University of Michigan 2002-2007 Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Labor Economics, Public Finance, Economics of Education, Urban Economics RESEARCH Refereed Journal Publications Park, Jooyoun, C. Lockwood Reynolds and Shawn Rohlin, 2014. The Impact of Import-related Displacement on Local Business Activity. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 48(Sept.), pp. 94-109. Reynolds, C. Lockwood and Shawn Rohlin, 2014. Do Location-based Tax Incentives Improve Quality of Life and Quality of Business Environment Journal of Regional Science, 54(1), pp. 1-32. Reynolds, C. Lockwood, 2014. State Politics, Tuition and the Dynamics of a Political Budget Cycle. Empirical Economics, 46(4), pp. 1241-1270. Johnson, Eric and C. Lockwood Reynolds, 2013. The Effect of Household Hospitalizations on the Educational Attainment of Youth Economics of Education Review, 37, pp. 165-182. Last revised 8/25/14 1
Lovenheim, Michael, and C. Lockwood Reynolds, 2013. The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom Journal of Human Resources. 48(1), pp. 3-37. - Also published as NBER Working Paper 18075 Reynolds, C. Lockwood, 2012. Where to Attend? Estimating the Effects of Beginning at a Twoyear College., Economics of Education Review, 31(4), pp. 345-362. Lovenheim, Michael and C. Lockwood Reynolds, 2011. Changes in the Post-secondary Choices of Students Across Income and Ability: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. Journal of Human Capital, 5(1): p. 70-109. Ellis, Michael, Eric Johnson and C. Lockwood Reynolds, 2011 Is There an Opportunity to Improve the Hedging of Jet Fuel by Airlines? Review of Futures Markets, 19(3): p. 281-304. Refereed Book Chapters DesJardins, Steven and C. Lockwood Reynolds, 2009. The Use of Matching Methods in Higher Education Research: Answering Whether Attendance at a 2-Year Institution Results in Differences in Educational Attainment in: J. C. Smart (Ed.) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume XXIII, 2009 Papers Under Review in Refereed Journals Reynolds, C. Lockwood, 2014. Estimating the Causal Effects of Dormitory Residence During College on Student Outcomes. Journal of Urban Economics. [revisions submitted] Klarner, Carl, and C. Lockwood Reynolds, 2013. Using County Data to Estimate State Legislative District Characteristics. State Politics and Policy Quarterly. [revisions requested] Lanning, Jonathan, and C. Lockwood Reynolds, 2013. Voluntary Equal Wage Policies in Discriminatory Markets: The Case of Ford Motor Company in the Early 20 th Century Journal of Labor Economics. [revisions requested] Manuscripts Ghosh, Sucharita, C. Lockwood Reynolds, and Shawn Rohlin, 2013. Do Foreign Trade Zones in the United States Spillover? [preparing for submission] Reynolds, C. Lockwood, and Shawn Rohlin, 2013. The Effects of Location-Based Tax Policies on the Distribution of Household Income: Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program. [preparing for submission] Works in Progress Housing Wealth, Bequests and the Elderly with Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley (Kent State University) Last revised 8/25/14 2
Changes in the Returns to Heterogeneous Skills: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth with Eric Johnson (Kent State University) and Xiaoxiao Li (Purdue University) The Impact of Two-year Colleges and Trade Schools on the Local Economy: Evidence from the South in the 1960s with Shawn Rohlin (Kent State University) RESEARCH AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Do Location-based Tax Incentives Improve Quality of Life and Quality of Business Environment? David C. Lincoln Fellowship, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy with Shawn Rohlin, funded $29,650 Horace H. Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2006 Training Fellowship, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 2005-2006 Summer Research Award, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2003 Summer Research Award, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2002 Sasakawa Foundation Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2002-2004 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATIONS American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association meeting, January 2014. The Effects of Location-Based Tax Policies on the Distribution of Household Income: Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program. [accepted for conference] National Tax Association Annual Meeting, November 2013. The Effects of Location-Based Tax Program. Southern Economics Association meeting, November 2013. The Effects of Location-Based Tax Program. [presented by Shawn Rohlin] Urban Economics Association meeting, November 2013. The Effects of Location-Based Tax Program. Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Meeting, March 2013, Estimating the Causal Effects of Dormitory Residence During College on Student Outcomes Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Meeting, March 2012, The Effect of Household Health Shocks on the Educational Attainment of Youth Last revised 8/25/14 3
Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, November 2011, The Effect of Household Health Shocks on the Educational Attainment of Youth North American Regional Science Council Meeting, November 2011, Do Location-based Tax Incentives Improve Quality of Life and Quality of Business Environment NBER Household Finance Group Meeting, October 2010, The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom [presented by Michael Lovenheim] American Education Finance Association Annual Meeting, March 2010, The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom American Education Finance Association Annual Meeting, March 2010, The Changing Nature of Community College Enrollment Youngstown State University, February 2010, The Changing Nature of Community College Enrollment Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, November 2009, Discussant Northeast Ohio Economics Workshop, November 2009, The Changing Nature of Community College Enrollment Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting, March 2009, Discussant Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, November 2008, Dorms vs. Homes: The Economic Consequences of Living at Home During College Northeast Ohio Economics Workshop, November 2008, Dorms vs. Homes: The Economic Consequences of Living at Home During College American Education Finance Association Annual Meeting, April 2008, Where to Attend? Estimates of the Effects of Beginning at a Two-year College Cleveland State University seminar series, October 2007, Politics and Tuition Growth: Evidence of a Political Budget Cycle in Higher Education REFEREE EXPERIENCE Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Electoral Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Studies in Educational Evaluation PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Economic Association, Association for Education Finance and Policy, Southern Economic Association Last revised 8/25/14 4
DISSERTATION AND THESIS COMMITTEES Aysegul Keskin Zeren, PhD (political science), 2014 Kjera Melton, MA thesis, 2008 COURSES TAUGHT Principles of Microeconomics Managerial Economics (MBA) Labor Economics Principles of Macroeconomics (as graduate assistant) TEACHING AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 2013-2014 College of Business Administration Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2013-2014 Outstanding MBA Professor, Kent State University, 2014 2012-2013 Outstanding MBA Professor, Kent State University, 2013 University Teaching Council Flipping the Classroom mini-grant, summer 2013, $600 2011-2012 College of Business Administration Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Nominated 2009-2010 Outstanding MBA Professor, Kent State University, 2010 2007-2008 Outstanding MBA Professor, Kent State University, 2008 University of Michigan Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Nominated 2006 Participant, Preparing Future Faculty Seminar, Center for Research in Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, 2005 Letters of Commendation for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2002-2007 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Hattie M. Strong Foundation, Washington D.C., Consulted on a project about the focus placed on teacher training in bachelor s and master s level education programs in institutions of higher education across the United States. Last revised 8/25/14 5