University of Connecticut |
Kenneth Couch
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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
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.