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Kenneth Couch
Professor

Conference on Unexpected Lifecycle Events, May 2011

Department of Economics

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University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT  06269-1063

Telephone: (860) 486-4570
Fax: (860) 486-4463
e-mail: Kenneth.Couch@uconn.edu

Office Location: Monteith, Rm. 420

Office Hours: TuTh 10:00-11:00 am

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Education:
Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1992.

Research Interests:
Economic Mobility, Job Displacement, Minimum Wages, Inequality, Employment Training, Program Evaluation, Life Course Events.

Teaching Interests:
Labor Economics, Public Economics, Econometrics, Program Evaluation.

Representative Publications:
Couch, Kenneth A. and Dana Placzek.  2010.  “Earnings Impacts of Job Displacement  Revisited.”  American Economic Review, 100(1): 572-89.

Couch, Kenneth A. and Robert Fairlie.  2010.  “Last Hired, First Fired?  Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle.”  Demography, 47(1):  227-247.

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kenneth A. Couch.  2009.  “Cross-sectional and Intra-Generational   Mobility.”  The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, Eds. Salverda, Nolan and Smeeding.   New York:  Oxford University      Press:  522-548.

Thomas Cooke, Paul Boyle, Kenneth Couch, and Peteke Feitjen.  2009.  ”Family Migration and the Gender Gap in Earnings in the United States and Great Britain: a longitudinal analysis”  Demography, 46(1):  147-167.