Curriculum Vitae
Joanne Song McLaughlin
Associate Professor of Economics
September 2020 - Present
EMPLOYMENT
September 2020 - present Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), University at Buffalo.
August 2014 - August 2020 Assistant Professor of Economics, University at Buffalo.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics, University of California Irvine, December 2013.
Non-degree J.D. Course, Labor Law, University of California Irvine School of Law, December 2010.
B.S. Economics (Minor: Math), Summa Cum Laude, California State University Los Angeles, August 2008.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor Economics, Public Policy, Health Economics, Economics of Aging, Law and Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics.
JOURNAL ARTICLES (* = student co-authors)
Barkowski, Scott, and McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2022. "In Sickness and In Health: Interaction Effects of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage of Young Adults." Journal of Human Resources 57(2): 637-688.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2020. "Falling Between the Cracks: Discrimination Laws and Older Women." LABOUR 34(2): 215-238. The Washington Post coverage; Research news coverage
Barkowski, Scott, McLaughlin, Joanne Song, and Alex Ray*. 2019. "A Reevaluation of the Effects of State and ACA Dependent Coverage Mandates on Health Insurance Coverage." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 39(3): 629-663. JPAM at a glance
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2019. “Limited Legal Recourse for Older Women’s Intersectional Discrimination Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.” The Elder Law Journal 26(2): 287-321.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song, and David Neumark. 2018. "Barriers to Later Retirement for Men: Physical Challenges of Work and Increases in the Full Retirement Age." Research on Aging 40(3): 232-256.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2017. "Does Communist Party Membership Pay? Estimating the Economic Returns to Party Membership in the Labor Market in China." Journal of Comparative Economics 45(4): 963-983.
Neumark, David, Joanne Song, and Patrick Button. 2017. "Does Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Make It Harder to Get Hired? Evidence from Disability Discrimination Laws." Research on Aging 39(1): 29-63.
Neumark, David, and Joanne Song. 2013. "Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?" Journal of Public Economics 108(December): 1-16.
JOURNAL ARTICLES, INVITED
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2019. "Age Discrimination Laws, Physical Challenges, and Work Accommodations for Older Workers." Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging Fall Special Issue 43(3).
Burn, Ian, Patrick Button, Theodore Figinski, and Joanne Song McLaughlin. 2020. "Why Retirement, Social Security, and Age Discrimination Policies Need to Consider the Intersectional Experiences of Older Women." Public Policy and Aging Report 30(3):101-106.
BOOK CHAPTER
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. Forthcoming. "Gendered Ageism and Disablism and Employment of Older Workers," with David Neumark.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2017. Older Workers and Age Discrimination Legislation in America in the 21st century. The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty. Robert S. Rycroft, ed., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Greenwood Press.
WORKING PAPERS
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. September 2022. "Young Children and Parents' Labor Supply during COVID-19," with Scott Barkowski and Yinlin Dai*. (conditionally accepted at American Journal of Health Economics)
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2017. "Returns to Political Capital in Chinese Labor Market," with Jinquan Gong* and Zhiqiang Liu.
WORK IN PROGRESS
OK Boomer? Burden of Proof Law and Age Discrimination (with Scott Barkowski).
Educational Impacts of Making College Tuition Free (with Scott Barkowski and Sirui Liu*).
RESEARCH GRANTS
University at Buffalo Baldy Center Research Grants - "Education Impacts of Making College Tuition Free." PI ($3,000; July 2021 - June 2022).
Social Science Korea (SSK) Research Grant - "Artificial Intelligence, Population Aging, and the Future of Work: Is the Korean Economy Ready?" Co-PI, with Yonghun Jung (PI), Seong-Hoon Lee (Co-PI), Jong Kook Shin (Co-PI) ($1.4 mil; Sept 2020 - Aug 2030).
National Research Foundation of Korea - "Do Longer Work Lives Lead to Healthier Lives?" Co-PI, with Yonghun Jung (PI) ($43,000; July 2018 - June 2019).
University at Buffalo Vice President for Research and Economic Development Research Grant -
"Humans versus Brilliant Machines: Returns to Human Skills." PI. ($17,000; August 2018 - June 2019).
University at Buffalo Baldy Center Research Grants - "Older Women's Intersectional Discrimination and State Employment Discrimination Laws." PI ($3,500; June 2018 - August 2019).
University at Buffalo Baldy Center Research Grants - "In Sickness and In Health: The Influence of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage in the USA." PI ($2,400; June 2017 - August 2018).
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Grant - "A Randomized Experiment on Professional Development and Financial Literacy Education: Youth Gaining Economic Equity Knowledge." Co-PI, with Fenice Boyd (PI) ($10,000; July 2016 - August 2017).
PRESENTATIONS
"In Sickness and In Health: Interaction Effects of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage of Young Adults"
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea (May 2019).
Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, Sejong, Korea (May 2019).
Annual Meeting on Law and Society 2018, Toronto, Canada (June 2018).
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe, Leuven, Belgium (presented by co-author, June 2018).
International Health Economics Association Boston 2017, Boston University (July 2017).
"Falling Between the Cracks: Discrimination Laws and Older Women"
AARP Foundation Symposium, UC Berkeley Law School (November 2017).
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Washington University School of Law (October 2015).
All-California Labor Economics Conference, RAND (poster session, September 2011).
Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA (April 2013).
Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference, UCLA School of Law (February 2012).
"Long-term Unemployment in the Great Recession: Have Employment Protection Laws Contributed?"
McMaster University (September 2015).
California State University Los Angeles (April 2014).
All-California Labor Economics Conference, UC San Diego (poster session, September 2013).
REFEREEING
Journal Reviews: American Journal of Health Economics (3x), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economics and Politics, Industrial Relations, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Elder Policy, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2x), Journal of Population Economics (3x), Journal of Urban Economics, Research on Aging, Review of Economics of the Household, Science, Social Politics.
Proposal Reviews: SUNY Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, UB Baldy Research Grant, Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Invited panelist at 2019 Annual SUNY Research Council Meeting (August 2019).
Invited panelist at 2019 Erich Bloch Symposium (June 2019).
Invited special lecturer at Korea University Sejong, South Korea (May 2019).
Invited discussant and participant at the Brookings Institution (November 2018).
Invited participant at Michigan Retirement Research Consortium (August, 2011; August, 2012).
Invited participant at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (July 2013).
TEACHING
Big Data and Application of Machine Learning in Economics (UB Economics, BA/BS, 2022).
Econometrics 1 (UB Economics, BA and MA/MS, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021).
Econometrics 2 (UB Economics, BA and MA/MS, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).
Economic Statistics and Data Analysis (UB Economics, BA, 2019, 2020).
Empirical Methods for Applied Microeconomics (UB Economics, PhD, 2015, 2017, 2019).
Econometric Methods for Causal Inference (UB Economics, PhD, 2021).
Labor Economics (UB Economics, BA and MA/MS, 2015, 2016, 2017).
UB Seminar Understanding Labor Policy (UB Economics, BA/BS, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).
DOCTORAL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Sirui Liu, chair (current).
Nguyen Ngo, chair (A2F Consulting, 2019).
Yiru Wang, committee member (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2018).
Ievgenii Kudko, committee member (Ernst & Young, 2017).
Guillermo Sinisterra, committee member (Javeriana University, 2017).
SELECTED UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, AND DEPARTMENT SERVICES
UB Faculty Senate Academic Policies and Grading, Chair (2022 - present).
UB Middle States Commission on Higher Education Curriculum and Assessment Self-Study Team (2022 – present).
UB Undergraduate Associate Deans Council Faculty Senate Representative (2021 - present).
UB Baldy Center Advisory Council (2021 - present).
UB Student Retention Task Force Sub-Committee (2020).
UB College of Arts and Sciences Policy Committee (2020 - present).
UB Economics Department Director of Undergraduate Studies (2020 - present).
UB Economics Department Research Seminar Committee (2014 - present).
UB Economics Department Tenure-Track Faculty Search Committee (2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022).
UB Economics Department Non-Tenure-Track Clinical Faculty Search Committee (2018, 2019, 2022).
UB Graduate School of Education Educational Leadership and Policy Department Recruitment Committee (2015, 2016).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Economic Association, Society of Labor Economists, Western Economic Association International.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Citizenship: United States.
Last updated: October 2022.
September 2020 - present Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), University at Buffalo.
August 2014 - August 2020 Assistant Professor of Economics, University at Buffalo.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics, University of California Irvine, December 2013.
Non-degree J.D. Course, Labor Law, University of California Irvine School of Law, December 2010.
B.S. Economics (Minor: Math), Summa Cum Laude, California State University Los Angeles, August 2008.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor Economics, Public Policy, Health Economics, Economics of Aging, Law and Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics.
JOURNAL ARTICLES (* = student co-authors)
Barkowski, Scott, and McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2022. "In Sickness and In Health: Interaction Effects of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage of Young Adults." Journal of Human Resources 57(2): 637-688.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2020. "Falling Between the Cracks: Discrimination Laws and Older Women." LABOUR 34(2): 215-238. The Washington Post coverage; Research news coverage
Barkowski, Scott, McLaughlin, Joanne Song, and Alex Ray*. 2019. "A Reevaluation of the Effects of State and ACA Dependent Coverage Mandates on Health Insurance Coverage." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 39(3): 629-663. JPAM at a glance
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2019. “Limited Legal Recourse for Older Women’s Intersectional Discrimination Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.” The Elder Law Journal 26(2): 287-321.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song, and David Neumark. 2018. "Barriers to Later Retirement for Men: Physical Challenges of Work and Increases in the Full Retirement Age." Research on Aging 40(3): 232-256.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2017. "Does Communist Party Membership Pay? Estimating the Economic Returns to Party Membership in the Labor Market in China." Journal of Comparative Economics 45(4): 963-983.
Neumark, David, Joanne Song, and Patrick Button. 2017. "Does Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Make It Harder to Get Hired? Evidence from Disability Discrimination Laws." Research on Aging 39(1): 29-63.
Neumark, David, and Joanne Song. 2013. "Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?" Journal of Public Economics 108(December): 1-16.
JOURNAL ARTICLES, INVITED
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2019. "Age Discrimination Laws, Physical Challenges, and Work Accommodations for Older Workers." Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging Fall Special Issue 43(3).
Burn, Ian, Patrick Button, Theodore Figinski, and Joanne Song McLaughlin. 2020. "Why Retirement, Social Security, and Age Discrimination Policies Need to Consider the Intersectional Experiences of Older Women." Public Policy and Aging Report 30(3):101-106.
BOOK CHAPTER
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. Forthcoming. "Gendered Ageism and Disablism and Employment of Older Workers," with David Neumark.
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2017. Older Workers and Age Discrimination Legislation in America in the 21st century. The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty. Robert S. Rycroft, ed., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Greenwood Press.
WORKING PAPERS
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. September 2022. "Young Children and Parents' Labor Supply during COVID-19," with Scott Barkowski and Yinlin Dai*. (conditionally accepted at American Journal of Health Economics)
McLaughlin, Joanne Song. 2017. "Returns to Political Capital in Chinese Labor Market," with Jinquan Gong* and Zhiqiang Liu.
WORK IN PROGRESS
OK Boomer? Burden of Proof Law and Age Discrimination (with Scott Barkowski).
Educational Impacts of Making College Tuition Free (with Scott Barkowski and Sirui Liu*).
RESEARCH GRANTS
University at Buffalo Baldy Center Research Grants - "Education Impacts of Making College Tuition Free." PI ($3,000; July 2021 - June 2022).
Social Science Korea (SSK) Research Grant - "Artificial Intelligence, Population Aging, and the Future of Work: Is the Korean Economy Ready?" Co-PI, with Yonghun Jung (PI), Seong-Hoon Lee (Co-PI), Jong Kook Shin (Co-PI) ($1.4 mil; Sept 2020 - Aug 2030).
National Research Foundation of Korea - "Do Longer Work Lives Lead to Healthier Lives?" Co-PI, with Yonghun Jung (PI) ($43,000; July 2018 - June 2019).
University at Buffalo Vice President for Research and Economic Development Research Grant -
"Humans versus Brilliant Machines: Returns to Human Skills." PI. ($17,000; August 2018 - June 2019).
University at Buffalo Baldy Center Research Grants - "Older Women's Intersectional Discrimination and State Employment Discrimination Laws." PI ($3,500; June 2018 - August 2019).
University at Buffalo Baldy Center Research Grants - "In Sickness and In Health: The Influence of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage in the USA." PI ($2,400; June 2017 - August 2018).
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Grant - "A Randomized Experiment on Professional Development and Financial Literacy Education: Youth Gaining Economic Equity Knowledge." Co-PI, with Fenice Boyd (PI) ($10,000; July 2016 - August 2017).
PRESENTATIONS
"In Sickness and In Health: Interaction Effects of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage of Young Adults"
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea (May 2019).
Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, Sejong, Korea (May 2019).
Annual Meeting on Law and Society 2018, Toronto, Canada (June 2018).
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe, Leuven, Belgium (presented by co-author, June 2018).
International Health Economics Association Boston 2017, Boston University (July 2017).
"Falling Between the Cracks: Discrimination Laws and Older Women"
AARP Foundation Symposium, UC Berkeley Law School (November 2017).
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Washington University School of Law (October 2015).
All-California Labor Economics Conference, RAND (poster session, September 2011).
Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA (April 2013).
Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference, UCLA School of Law (February 2012).
"Long-term Unemployment in the Great Recession: Have Employment Protection Laws Contributed?"
McMaster University (September 2015).
California State University Los Angeles (April 2014).
All-California Labor Economics Conference, UC San Diego (poster session, September 2013).
REFEREEING
Journal Reviews: American Journal of Health Economics (3x), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economics and Politics, Industrial Relations, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Elder Policy, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2x), Journal of Population Economics (3x), Journal of Urban Economics, Research on Aging, Review of Economics of the Household, Science, Social Politics.
Proposal Reviews: SUNY Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, UB Baldy Research Grant, Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Invited panelist at 2019 Annual SUNY Research Council Meeting (August 2019).
Invited panelist at 2019 Erich Bloch Symposium (June 2019).
Invited special lecturer at Korea University Sejong, South Korea (May 2019).
Invited discussant and participant at the Brookings Institution (November 2018).
Invited participant at Michigan Retirement Research Consortium (August, 2011; August, 2012).
Invited participant at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (July 2013).
TEACHING
Big Data and Application of Machine Learning in Economics (UB Economics, BA/BS, 2022).
Econometrics 1 (UB Economics, BA and MA/MS, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021).
Econometrics 2 (UB Economics, BA and MA/MS, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).
Economic Statistics and Data Analysis (UB Economics, BA, 2019, 2020).
Empirical Methods for Applied Microeconomics (UB Economics, PhD, 2015, 2017, 2019).
Econometric Methods for Causal Inference (UB Economics, PhD, 2021).
Labor Economics (UB Economics, BA and MA/MS, 2015, 2016, 2017).
UB Seminar Understanding Labor Policy (UB Economics, BA/BS, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).
DOCTORAL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Sirui Liu, chair (current).
Nguyen Ngo, chair (A2F Consulting, 2019).
Yiru Wang, committee member (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2018).
Ievgenii Kudko, committee member (Ernst & Young, 2017).
Guillermo Sinisterra, committee member (Javeriana University, 2017).
SELECTED UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, AND DEPARTMENT SERVICES
UB Faculty Senate Academic Policies and Grading, Chair (2022 - present).
UB Middle States Commission on Higher Education Curriculum and Assessment Self-Study Team (2022 – present).
UB Undergraduate Associate Deans Council Faculty Senate Representative (2021 - present).
UB Baldy Center Advisory Council (2021 - present).
UB Student Retention Task Force Sub-Committee (2020).
UB College of Arts and Sciences Policy Committee (2020 - present).
UB Economics Department Director of Undergraduate Studies (2020 - present).
UB Economics Department Research Seminar Committee (2014 - present).
UB Economics Department Tenure-Track Faculty Search Committee (2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022).
UB Economics Department Non-Tenure-Track Clinical Faculty Search Committee (2018, 2019, 2022).
UB Graduate School of Education Educational Leadership and Policy Department Recruitment Committee (2015, 2016).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Economic Association, Society of Labor Economists, Western Economic Association International.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Citizenship: United States.
Last updated: October 2022.
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