Joni Hersch
Professor of Law and Economics Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics FedEx Research Professor (2012-2013)
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Email: joni.hersch@vanderbilt.edu
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Research Interest(s)
Labor economics, discrimination, law and economics
Education
Ph.D. (Economics) Northwestern University
B.A. (Mathematics) University of South Florida
Biography
Joni Hersch is an economist who works in the areas of employment discrimination and empirical law and economics. Her recent research examines sexual harassment, skin color discrimination, job risks faced by immigrant workers, costs of smoking, punitive damages awards, and judge and jury behavior. Professor Hersch joined Vanderbilt Law School as Professor of Law and Economics in 2006, with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Owen Graduate School of Management. Over the course of her career, Professor Hersch has published numerous articles in the leading economics journals on group differences in labor market outcomes, the economics of home production, models of litigation, job risks, and product safety regulation. She is the author of Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006) and co-editor of Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century (University of Chicago, 2004). Professor Hersch is Associate Editor of the Review of Economics of the Household and is on the editorial board of Social Science Quarterly. In November 2010, Professor Hersch began a two-year term as a Vice-President of the Southern Economic Association. Before joining Vanderbilt's law faculty, Professor Hersch was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming from 1989-99 and has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at Northwestern, Caltech, Duke, and Harvard. Please direct media inquiries to Amy Wolf, VU Senior Public Affairs Officer, at 615-343-2634 or amy.wolf@vanderbilt.edu.
Representative Publications
Articles
“Compensating Differentials for Sexual Harassment,” 101(3) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 630 (2011)
“The Persistence of Skin Color Discrimination for Immigrants,” 40(5) Social Science Research 1337 (2011)
"Immigrant Status and the Value of Statistical Life," 45(3) Journal of Human Resources 749 (2010) (with W. Kip Viscusi)
"Home Production and Wages: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey," 7(2) Review of Economics of the Household 159 (2009)
"Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height," 26(2) Journal of Labor Economics 345 (2008)
"Demand for a Jury Trial and the Selection of Cases for Trial," 35(1) Journal of Legal Studies 119 (2006)
"Skin Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality," 96(2) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 251 (2006)
"Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform," 33(1) Journal of Legal Studies 1 (2004) (with W. Kip Viscusi)
"Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers," 83(2) Review of Economics and Statistics 269 (2001) (with W. Kip Viscusi)
"Compensating Differentials for Gender-Specific Job Injury Risks," 88(3) American Economic Review 598 (1998)
Presentations
January 25, 2013: "Opting Out among Women with Elite Education," University of Wyoming College of Business, Laramie, WY
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