Esther Redmount
Office:
Department of Economics and Business
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(719) 389-6412
eredmount@coloradocollege.edu
Home:
1919 N. Cascade Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
(719) 471-4334
Education:
Post-doctoral: Lady Davis Fellow, Hebrew University, Faculty of Agriculture,
Rehovot, Israel, 1985-86.
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1985.
Dissertation: A Comparison of Collective, Cooperative and Private Sector Farm
Settlements in Jewish Palestine.
B.A. (Honors in Economics), College of William and Mary, 1976.
Academic Appointments:
Associate Professor of Economics, Colorado College, 1993-present.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Colorado College, 1987-1993.
Instructor in Economics, Manhattanville College, 1986-87 and 1982-84.
Instructor in Economics, Greensboro College, 1984-85.
Instructor in Economics, Hampden-Sydney College, 1979-81.
Courses taught: Labor Economics, Migration, Economic and Social History (taught at the
Newberry Library, Chicago), Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Statistics.
Publications:
“The Effect of Wage Payment Reform on Workers’ Wages,Labor Supply and Welfare,
with Ronald G. Warren, Jr. and Arthur Snow, Journal of Economic History, forthcoming
December 2012.
“Cyclical Patterns in School Attrition and Attendance: A Study in the Labor Market
Behavior of Children”, Economic Development and Cultural Change 51:1 (October
2002), 135-160.
“Shirking and the Choice of Technology: a Theory of Production Inefficiency” with
Craig Depken and Arthur Snow, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,2001.
Book Reviews, various, including “A Review of Marketing Michelin: Advertising and
Cultural Identity in 20th Century France” and “A Review of the Bouchayers of Grenoble
and French Industrial Enterprise”, for EHnet, 2002.
“Toward a Feminist Econometrics”, in Out of the Margins: Feminist Perspectives in
Economics, ed. Edith Kuiper and Jolande Sap, Routledge, 1995.
Work in Progress, Presentations and Working Papers:
Family Economics: Trends in Household Formation, Dissolution and Evolution in the
21st century, two vol., Praeger Publishers [now ABC-Clio], scheduled for publication
November 2013.
“The Enduring Impact of Middle School Experience”, working paper, with Cassandra
Benson, 2012.
“The Sale and Purchase of British Army Commissions”, with Arthur Snow and
Ronald G. Warren, Jr., in preparation for Society of Labor Economists, in revision.
“Helping Hands: Identifying Social Network Effects on Health in the PSID” in
preparation for the Western Economic Association Meetings, Summer 2010, revised for
presentation at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, November 2011.
“Following Up on Domestic Violence: A Reexamination of the Colorado Springs
DVERT Experiment”, with Ellen Katayama, poster at Society of Labor Economists,
Spring, 2008.
“AIDS and the Education of Girls in Swaziland with Particular Attention to Orphanages”,
with Megan McCallister, a paper presented at the Allied Social Science Meetings,
Chicago, IL, January 2007
“Child Workers and Household Labor Supply”, a paper presented at the Society of Labor
Economists’ meeting, San Francisco, June 2006.
“I Owe My Soul: Personal Debt and Labor Supply”, a paper presented to the Society of
Labor Economists’ meeting, San Antonio, May 2004.
Institutional Experience:
Faculty Executive Committee, Personnel Subcommittee,2008-11, Chair, 2010-11.
Watson Foundation Fellowship Liaison, 2000-2007
Chair, Admissions and Financial Aid, 2006-2007
Rhodes Fellowship Committee, 2002-2005
Social Science Executive Committee, 2002-3
Faculty Executive Committee, Budget Subcommittee, 2001-2002
Chair, Department of Economics, 1995-1999
Professional Activities
Reader, AP Economics Exams for Educational Testing Service, 2007-present
Colorado Council on Economic Education occasional instructor, 2009.
Referee, American Economic Review, EDCC.