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Associate Professor of Economics Kozuch Director of the Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE) Department of Economics | Krannert Building | Office 311 403 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907-2056 (765) 496-6773 | mumford@purdue.edu Professor Mumford studies the effects of public policy in a variety of areas including education, taxation, labor market regulation, and personal finance. He advocates for the official measurement of comprehensive wealth by governments as opposed to attempts to directly measure happiness. His research is published in some of the top economic outlets including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Econometrics. Professor Mumford joined the Department of Economics at Purdue University in 2007 and was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2014. He serves as the Kozuch Director of the Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE) and previously served as Director of Undergraduate Programs in Economics. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics from Brigham Young University. |
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Working Papers
- Student Selection into an Income Share Agreement
Working Paper | Kevin J. Mumford - Teacher Performance Pay in the United States: Incidence and Adult Outcomes
IZA Discussion Paper 11432, Krannert Working Paper 1289 | Timothy N. Bond and Kevin J. Mumford - Decreasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States
EdWorkingPaper: 20-219 | Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric Eide, Kevin J. Mumford, and Daniel Sabey - Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades
EdWorkingPaper: 20-77 | Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric Eide, Kevin J. Mumford, Richard W. Patterson, and Merrill Warnick
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Integrated Conflict Management Systems Pay Off with Lower Levels of Formal
Grievances and Lower Turnover Rates
ILR Review (2019) 73:2 | Benjamin B. Dunford, Kevin J. Mumford, R. Wayne Boss, Alan D. Boss, and David S. Boss - Who Benefits from a Minimum Wage Increase?
ILR Review (2016) 69:5, 1171-1190 | John W. Lopresti and Kevin J. Mumford - Influence of Job Market Conditions on Engineering Cooperative
Education Participation
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice (2016) 142:3 | Brock E. Barry, Russell A. Long, Kevin J. Mumford and Matthew W. Ohland - The Salience of Complex Tax Changes: Evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Credit Expansion
National Tax Journal (2015) 68:3, 477-510 | Benjamin M. Miller and Kevin J. Mumford - Examining the Influence of Engineering Students' Course Grades on Major Choice and Major Switching Behavior
International Journal of Engineering Education (2015) 31:6(A), 1468-1475 | Joyce B. Main, Kevin J. Mumford, and Matthew W. Ohland - Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing
Market
Review of Economics and Statistics (2013) 95:2, 464-475 | Michael F. Lovenheim and Kevin J. Mumford - A Bayesian Analysis of Payday Loans
and Their Regulation
Journal of Econometrics (2012) 171:2, 205-216 | Mingliang Li, Kevin J. Mumford, and Justin L. Tobias - Women and the Choice to Study Economics
Journal of Economic Education (2012) 43:4, 349-362 | Tisha L. N. Emerson, KimMarie McGoldrick, and Kevin J. Mumford - Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
Environment and Development Economics (2012) 17:3, 317-353 | Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence Goulder, Kevin J. Mumford, and Kirsten Oleson
Comments on this paper by Robert Solow, Kirk Hamilton, and Sjak Smulders
- Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment
American Economic Review (2011) 101:4, 1616-28 | Richard Crump, Gopi Shah Goda, and Kevin J. Mumford - Student Performance in Undergraduate Economics Courses
Journal of Economic Education (2011) 42:3, 275-282 | Kevin J. Mumford and Matthew W. Ohland

Resting Papers
- The Effect of Underwater Mortgages on Unemployment
Krannert Working Paper 1274 | Kevin J. Mumford and Katie Schultz - How Costly is Welfare Stigma? Separating Psychological Costs from Time Costs
Krannert Working Paper 1229 | Colleen Flaherty Manchester and Kevin J. Mumford - The Efficiency Cost of Child Tax Benefits
National Tax Association Proceedings of the 101st Annual Conference (2010) 201-207 | Kevin J. Mumford