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Professor of Economics Kozuch Director, Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE) Department of Economics | Krannert Building | Office 311 403 Mitch Daniels Blvd. | 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, personal finance, and the measurement of wealth. His research is published in many of the top journals in economics including: American Economic Review, Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economics Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Econometrics. Professor Mumford joined the Department of Economics at Purdue University in 2007. 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
    EdWorkingPaper No. 22-610 | Kevin J. Mumford
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  • Statistical Discrimination and Optimal Mismatch in College Major Selection
    Working Paper | Mary Kate Batistich, Timothy N. Bond, Sebastian Linde, and Kevin J. Mumford
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  • Teacher Performance Pay in the United States: Incidence and Adult Outcomes
    IZA Discussion Paper 11432 | Timothy N. Bond and Kevin J. Mumford
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  • End-of-Life Medical Spending: Evidence from Pet Insurance
    Working Paper | Mary Kate Batistich and Kevin J. Mumford
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• • Impact of Motivation and Workload on Service Time: A Multilevel Analysis of Call Center Operations
    Management Science (forthcoming) | Ahmad Ashkanani, Benjamin B. Dunford, and Kevin J. Mumford
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  • Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades
  • American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2022) 14:3, 1-29 | Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric Eide, Kevin J. Mumford, Richard W. Patterson, and Merrill Warnick
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  • Decreasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States
    Economics of Education Review (2022) 90 |Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric Eide, Kevin J. Mumford, and Daniel Sabey
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  • Integrated Conflict Management Systems Pay Off with Lower Levels of Formal Grievances and Lower Turnover Rates
    ILR Review (2020) 73:2 | Benjamin B. Dunford, Kevin J. Mumford, R. Wayne Boss, Alan D. Boss, and David S. Boss
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  • CareerVis: Hierarchical Visualization of Career Pathway Data
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (2018) 38:6, 96-105 | Mingran Li, Wenjie Wu, Junhan Zhao, Keyuan Zhou, David Perkis, Timothy N. Bond, Kevin J. Mumford, David Hummels, and Yingjie Victor Chen
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  • Who Benefits from a Minimum Wage Increase?
  • ILR Review (2016) 69:5, 1171-1190 | John W. Lopresti and Kevin J. Mumford
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  • 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
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  • Prosperity, Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth 
  • Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies (2016) 3:2, 226-234 | Kevin J. Mumford
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment
  • American Economic Review (2011) 101:4, 1616-28 | Richard Crump, Gopi Shah Goda, and Kevin J. Mumford
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  • Student Performance in Undergraduate Economics Courses
  • Journal of Economic Education (2011) 42:3, 275-282 | Kevin J. Mumford and Matthew W. Ohland

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Resting Papers

• • The Effect of Underwater Mortgages on Unemployment
    Krannert Working Paper 1274 | Kevin J. Mumford and Katie Schultz
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  • How Costly is Welfare Stigma? Separating Psychological Costs from Time Costs
  • Krannert Working Paper 1229 | Colleen Flaherty Manchester and Kevin J. Mumford
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