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403 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907-2056 Krannert Building | Office 311 (765) 496-6773 mumford@purdue.edu Kevin 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 was the Director of Undergraduate Programs in Economics from 2015 to 2018 and is currently the Kozuch Director of the Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE). He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics from Brigham Young University. Download CV |
Working Papers
- 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 - Student Selection into an Income Share Agreement
Working Paper | Kevin J. Mumford
Published & Forthcoming Papers
- An Evaluation Study on the Impact of Preventative Conflict Management on Written Grievances, Department Culture, and Retention
ILR Review (forthcoming) | Benjamin B. Dunford, Kevin J. Mumford, R. Wayne Boss, Alan D. Boss, and David S. Boss - 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 - Who Benefits from a Minimum Wage Increase?
ILR Review (2016) 69:5, 1171-1190 | John W. Lopresti and Kevin J. Mumford - Prosperity, Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies (2016) 3:2, 226-234 | 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 - 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 - 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 - Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth: Further Reflections
Environment and Development Economics (2013) 18:4, 504-516 | Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence Goulder, Kevin J. Mumford, and Kirsten Oleson - 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
Working Paper | 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
Working Paper | Kevin J. Mumford