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Daniel P. MacDonald
Contact
Information
California State University San Bernardino
Economics Department
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407
[email protected]
909-283-9674
Current
Position
Assistant Professor of Economics, California State University San Bernardino (Fall 2013- )
Research
Fields
Labor Economics, U.S. Economic History, Law and Economics
Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (2007-2013)
Ph.D., Economics (Dissertation: “Law and the Rise of Capitalism in U.S. History”)
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (2003-2007)
B.A., Mathematics and Economics (Honors Program), magna cum laude
Publications
“Labor Productivity Growth”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History (Melvyn Dubofsky, ed.), 2013
Book Review of Joe Burns, “Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and
Transform America”, for Working USA: The Journal Of Labor And Society (December, 2014)
Book Review of Joe Burns, “Strike Back: Using the Militant Tactics of Labor’s Past to Reignite
Public Sector Unionism Today”, for Labor History (2014)
“On the Question of Court Activism and Economic Interests in 19th Century Married Women’s
Property Law”, in Law and Social Economics: Essays in Ethical Values for Theory, Practice, and
Policy (Mark D. White, ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Working Papers
(with Philip Mellizo) “Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply in Historical Perspective”, April 2015
“Internal Migration and Industrialization in the Northeast U.S.”, April 2015
(with Eric Nilsson) “Prices and the Minimum Wage: Analyzing the Dynamics of Firm Behavior,
1977-2014”, May 2015
Works in
Progress
“The Effect of Married Women’s Property Acts and Earnings Acts on Divorce Rates in late-19th
Century America”
Honors and
Awards
Early Career Research Award, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2015
Mini-grant, Cal State San Bernardino, 2015
OSR Summer Student Research Grant, Cal State San Bernardino, 2014
William Waters Grant, Association for Social Economics, 2013
Horvat-Vanek Prize (Best Paper Prize), International Association for the Economics of Participation, 2012
Law and Society Graduate Fellow, UMass Department of Legal Studies, Spring 2012-Spring 2013
Solomin Barkin Award, UMass Economics Department, 2012
Professional
Experience
• Content Lead: Principles of Macroeconomics version 1-2, OpenStax, 2015
• CFA Content Developer: Mindojo, 2015
• Course design freelance work: Words and Numbers, Inc. (Baltimore, MD), 2013-2014
• Senior Contributor: Principles of Economics, OpenStax, 2013-2014
• Textbook consultant to COERC, an open educational resource initiative in California, Summer
2014
• Referee for: Journal of Globalization and Development; Institute for New Economic Thinking
Grants
Presentations
ASSA Annual Meetings (Association for Social Economics panels), January 2014
Economics Department Talk, Cal State San Bernardino, November 2013
Hampshire College, Cal State San Bernardino: February 2013
ASSA Annual Meetings (Economic History Association panels), January 2013
Teaching
Experience
California State University San Bernardino, Assistant Professor
• U.S. Economic History: Fall 2013, Fall 2014
• Labor Economics: Winter 2014, Winter 2015
• Introduction to Microeconomics: Winter 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Fall 2014, Spring
2015
• Introduction to Macroeconomics: Winter 2015
• Tools of Economic Analysis: Spring 2014, Spring 2015
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Instructor
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References
Legal 397LC Law, Labor, and Capitalism in U.S. History, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
Math refresher course for incoming economics PhD students at UMass, Summer 2011
Econ 362 American Economic History, Fall 2009
Econ 104H Introduction to Macroeconomics (Honors), Spring 2009
Prof. Gerald Friedman
Department of Economics
Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
[email protected]
Prof. Fidan Ana Kurtulus
Department of Economics
Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
[email protected]
Prof. Lawrence Zacharias
Isenberg School of Management
Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
[email protected]