MATTHEW D. BAIRD Contact Information Email: mbaird@rand.org Office Address: RAND Corporation, 4570 Fifth Ave #600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Office Phone: (412) 683-­‐‑2300 ext. 4941 Employment Associate Economist The RAND Corporation 2013-­‐‑ Part-­‐‑Time Instructor University of Pittsburgh Economics Department 2014-­‐‑ Part-­‐‑Time Instructor University of California, Los Angeles Economics Department 2012 Visiting Instructor Brigham Young University Economics Department 2010 Education Ph.D., Economics: University of California, Los Angeles: 2012 Dissertation Title: Topics in Microeconometrics Dissertation Committee Chair: Moshe Buchinsky M.S. Economics: University of California, Los Angeles: 2009 B.S. Economics, B.A. History, Minor Mathematics: Brigham Young University: 2007 Graduated with University Honors Research Fields Labor and Population, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Nonparametrics, Program Evaluation, Survey Sampling and Weighting Teaching Experience University of Pittsburgh Fall 2015, Spring 2014: Graduate Labor Economics University of California, Los Angeles Fall 2012: Intermediate Macroeconomics Brigham Young University Summer 2010: Statistics for Economists Awards, Fellowships, and Other Activities Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, 2011-­‐‑2012 Teaching Assistant Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles Economics Department 2010-­‐‑2011 Research Fellowship, California Center for Population Research 2009-­‐‑2010 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, University of California Los Angeles 2009 NICHD Traineeship, California Center for Population Research 2008-­‐‑2009 PhD Progress Award 2008 Gordon B. Hinckley Scholar, 2000-­‐‑2006 Publications Baird, M. (2015). “Gains from joint cross validation bandwidth selection for derivatives of conditional multidimensional densities.” Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 86, no. 4 (2016): 807-­‐‑819. Baird, M., Daugherty, L., Kumar, K. B., & Arifkhanova, A. (2015). “Regional and gender differences and trends in the anesthesiologist workforce.” The Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, 123(5), 997-­‐‑1012. RAND Reports Baird, M., M. Baird, and J. Vesely (2016). “Access to Dental Providers in Pennsylvania.” RR-­‐‑1351-­‐‑PDH Gonzalez, G., K. Siler-­‐‑Evans, G. Hunter, and M. Baird (2016). “Wages, employment, and STEM education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia” RR-­‐‑1357-­‐‑CHC Baird, M., Daugherty, L., Kumar, K. B., & Arifkhanova, A. (2014). “The Anesthesiologist Workforce in 2013.” RR-­‐‑650-­‐‑ASAI Pane, John F., Elizabeth D. Steiner, Matthew D. Baird, and Laura S. Hamilton (2015). "ʺContinued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized learning."ʺ RR-­‐‑1365-­‐‑
BMGF Gates, S. et al. (2014). “Preparing Principals to Raise Student Achievement.” RR-­‐‑507-­‐‑NL Referee Services: Journal of Econometrics, Economic Inquiry, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Human Capital, Pediatrics, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation Presentations Occupational Transitions, Wage and Non-­‐‑Wage Benefits: Estimation of the Dynamic Model Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, 2014; Syracuse University Economics Department, 2013: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013; Census Bureau, 2013, The RAND Corporation, 2013; UCLA Applied Microeconomics Proseminar, 2012, 2010; UCLA Econometrics Proseminar, 2012; Brigham Young University Economics Department, 2010 Medicaid Spend-­‐‑down: The Importance of Strategic Asset Transfers to Reach Medicaid Eligibility Brigham Young University, 2015; NBER Summer Institute, 2014; Pittsburgh Economics Medley, 2014 Dealing with Variation in Test Conditions When Estimating Program Effects American Education Finance and Policy Conference, 2016; Carnegie Mellon University, 2015; Brigham Young University, 2015 Trade-­‐‑Offs in Selecting the Number of Years to Estimate Worker Productivity: Theoretic and Empirical Evidence Center for Causal Inference Brownbag, 2016; Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, 2015; Pittsburgh Economics Medley, 2015 Housing Price Expectation Formation American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Conference, 2015; RAND Labor and Population Brownbag, 2015; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2014 Semiparametric Analysis of Teacher Valued Added Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, 2014; UCLA Econometrics Proseminar, 2010 An Econometric Analysis of the Labor Market for Anesthesiologists RAND Labor and Population Brownbag, 2014 Trends in the Distribution of Teacher Effectiveness in the Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, 2014 For-­‐‑Profit Higher Education Responsiveness to Price Shocks: An Investigation of Changes in Post 9-­‐‑11 GI Bill Allowed Maximum Tuitions RAND Labor and Population Brownbag, 2015 Workforce Pipeline Job Training: An Evaluation of a New Orleans RCT Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, 2015 Discussant: Western Economic Association Annual Meetings (2014), Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (2014, 2015), American Education Finance and Policy (2016) Working Papers Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Occupational Transitions, Wage and Non-­‐‑Wage Benefits For-­‐‑Profit Higher Education Responsiveness to Price Shocks: An Investigation of Changes in Post 9-­‐‑11 GI Bill Allowed Maximum Tuitions (with T. Miller & J. Wenger, RAND; M. Kofoed, West Point Military Academy) Estimating Disequilibrium in Specialized Labor Markets: An Analysis of Anesthesiologists (with K. Kumar and L. Daugherty, RAND) Dealing with Variation in Test Conditions When Estimating Program Effects (with J. Pane, RAND) Timing and Reasons for Women and Minority College STEM Major Attrition (with M. Buchinsky, UCLA, and V. Sovero, Wake Forest University) Medicaid Spend-­‐‑down: The Importance of Strategic Asset Transfers to Reach Medicaid Eligibility (with M., Hurd & Rohwedder, S. RAND). Housing Price Expectation Formation (with M. Hurd & S. Rohwedder, RAND) Cross validation bandwidth selection for derivatives of multidimensional densities, RAND Working Paper WR-­‐‑1060. Testing the Additive Separability of the Teacher Value Added Effect Semiparametrically (with P. Bergman, Columbia University), under consideration at Trade-­‐‑Offs in Selecting the Number of Years to Estimate Worker Productivity: Theoretic and Empirical Evidence From an Application to Teachers (with J. Engberg and B. Master, RAND) Wealth Effects on Inter Vivos Transfers (with M. Hurd and S. Rohwedder, RAND) Defining Success: Identifying Meaningful Performance Benchmarks When Evaluations Are on a Relative Scale (with J. Engberg and B. Master, RAND) Other Ongoing Research Workforce Pipeline Job Training: An Evaluation of a New Orleans RCT (with J. Engberg, G. Gonzalez, and I. Gutierrez, RAND) Effect of Privatization of State Owned Entities on Local Labor Markets: An Investigation of India (with A. Chari, University of Sussex; L. Winters, University of Suffolk, S. Nataraj, RAND, A. Rothenberg, RAND) Impact of Education Benefits on Service Member Recruitment and Retention Patterns (with T. Miller, J. Wenger, L. Daugherty, and P. Buryk, RAND) Estimation of Nonparametric Distributions and Coefficients in an Earnings Dynamics Model (with D. Ben-­‐‑Moshe, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Effects of House Value Changes on Senior Health in the United States (with M. Gong, RAND)