Owen Thompson Curriculum Vitae Updated: February 2015 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Bolton Hall 878 Milwaukee, WI 53211 Tel: (414) 229-4429 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://people.uwm.edu/thompsoo Positions Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 2013Education Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2013 M.P.P., Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2009 B.A., Economics, The Evergreen State College, 2005 Publications 1. 2. 3. 4. Genetic Mechanisms in the Intergenerational Transmission of Health (2014). Journal of Health Economics 35(3), 132-146. Economic Background and Educational Attainment: The Role of Gene-Environment Interactions (2014). Journal of Human Resources 49(2), 263-294. Racial Disparities in the Cognition-Health Relationship (2011). Journal of Health Economics 30(2), 328-339. The Estimated Cost Impact of Privatizing Student Transportation in Minnesota School Districts. (2011). Public Choice 146(34), 319-339. Working Papers Drug Policy and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States (Revised and Resubmitted, Contemporary Economic Policy) The Determinants of Racial Differences in Parenting Practices: Evidence from the Civil Rights Era (Under Review) Gene-Environment Interaction in the Intergenerational Transmission of Health (Under Review) Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes (with Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan. Under review.) Educational Mobility across Three Generations of American Women (with Sarah Kroeger. Under review) Works in Progress The Genetic Transmission of Obesity (with Timothy Classen) Access to Medical Care and the Intergenerational Transmission of Asthma The Cumulative Effects of Health Insurance on Health Grants and Fellowships Institute for Research on Poverty Emerging Scholar Grant, University of Wisconsin Madison (PI); $19,000 Center for Research on Families Dissertation Fellowship, University of Massachusetts (PI); $10,000 Presentations 2012: National Institutes of Child Health and Development-Add Health Users Conference 2013: Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting; Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences Conference; University of South Carolina; McGill University, University of Miami; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Bryn Mawr College; University of New Mexico; Syracuse University; Middlebury College 2014: Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; University of Wisconsin MadisonInstitute for Research on Poverty; Southern Economic Conference 2015: University of Wisconsin Whitewater; Midwestern Economic Conference; Population Association of American Meetings Refereeing Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Health Economics (×3), Review of Black Political Economy Honors and Awards Coffee mug, awarded by the Minnesota Population Center’s IPUMS project for discovering a significant error in the Integrated Health Interview Survey, 2014 Solomon Barkin Award for dissertation research in labor economics. University of Massachusetts, 2012 First-Year Experience Student Choice Teaching Award. University of Massachusetts, 2011 Nominee, Lloyd B. Short Award for best thesis. University of Minnesota, 2009