Shannon Seitz Department of Economics Home: (613) 544-4939 Queen s University Work: (613) 533-2262 Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Fax: (613) 533-6668 E-mail: seitz@post.queensu.ca Citizenship: Canadian PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor of Economics Queen s University, July 2000-present Visiting Faculty Associate, Maryland Population Research Center University of Maryland, September 2002 EDUCATION Ph.D in Economics, The University of Western Ontario, August 2000 M.A. in Economics, The University of Western Ontario, May 1995 B.Com, Honours in Economics, University of Saskatchewan, May 1994 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Economic Association Canadian Economic Association Econometric Society Society of Labor Economists REFEREEING Contemporary Economic Policy Econometrica Journal of Economics and Business Journal of Human Resources Journal of Labor Economics Journal of Political Economy Law Commission of Canada Southern Economic Journal
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Introductory Undergraduate Econometrics, Queen s University, Winter 2001, 2002 Graduate Labour Economics, Queen s University, Fall 2000, 2001 Intermediate Microeconomics I, The University of Western Ontario, Summer 1996-1997 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS T.M. Brown Thesis Prize for best dissertation, The University of Western Ontario, 2000 Third Year Graduate Paper Prize, The University of Western Ontario, 1999 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1998 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1998 Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholars Award, 1998 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, 1998 Special University Scholarship, The University of Western Ontario, 1994-1998 UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES Member, Appointments Committee, Queen s University, 2001-2003 Co-organizer, Quantitative Economics Workshop, Queen s University, 2001-2003 Member, Computing Committee, Queen s University, 2002-2003 M.A. SUPERVISION Colette Kaminsky, Queen s University, 2001 Stephen Fertuck, Queen s University, 2002 PH.D SUPERVISION Marina Adshade, Committee Member, Queen s University, 2002 Katherine Beynon, Co-Supervisor, Queen s University, 2002 Jeremy Lise, Supervisor, Queen s University, 2002 Karen Parent, Committee Member, University of Toronto, 2002 RESEARCH GRANTS Estimating the Equilibrium Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project (with Jeffrey Smith), Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, 1999-2002, $30,000 2
CONSULTING Evaluation of Parental Employment Insurance Benefit Changes, Human Resources Development Canada/Applied Research Consultants, 2001-present PUBLISHED WORK Bowlus, Audra and Shannon Seitz "Search Friction in the U.S. Labor Market: Equilibrium Estimates from the PSID," in H. Bunzel, B.J. Christensen, P. Jensen, N.M. Kiefer, and D.T. Mortensen (eds.), Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models. New York, NY: North Holland, (2000). UNPUBLISHED WORK Seitz, Shannon. Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment, September 2002. Under review at the Journal of Political Economy. Bowlus, Audra and Shannon Seitz. Domestic Violence, Employment and Divorce, June 2002. Under review at the International Economic Review. Seitz, Shannon Labor Supply, Divorce and Remarriage, October 2002. Under review at the Review of Economics of the Household. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Brien, Michael, Seitz, Shannon and Steven Stern. Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in Equilibrium, October 2002. Gimenez, Eduardo, Rios-Rull, Jose-Victor and Shannon Seitz. The US Baby Boom: What can account for it? April 2002. Lise, Jeremy, Seitz, Shannon and Jeffrey Smith. Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs, September 2002. PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES Canadian Econometrics Study Group Annual Meeting, Quebec. Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in Equilibrium, October 2002. Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting. Estimating the Equilibrium Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project, poster session, May 2002. 3
Workshop on Life-Stages and Allocation, Centre for Applied Econometrics, University of Copenhagen. Employment and the Sex Ratio in a Two-Sided Model of Marriage, February 2002. American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta. Discussant for Do Innovations in Birth Control Technology Increase the Welfare of Women? by Aloysius Siow, January 2002. European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Lausanne. Employment and the Sex Ratio in a Two-Sided Model of Marriage, August 2001. Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting, Montreal. Estimating the Equilibrium Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project, May 2001. American Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Employment and the Sex Ratio in a Two-Sided Model of Marriage, January 2001. Canadian International Labour Network Conference on Labour Market Institutions and Outcomes, Burlington. Discussant for An Economic Model of Locus of Control and the Human Capital Investment Decision by Thomas DeLeire and Margo Coleman, September 2000. Meeting of the Society of Economic Dynamics, San Jose. Employment and the Sex Ratio in a Two-Sided Model of Marriage, June 2000. John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy Conference on Numerically Intensive Policy Analysis, Queen s University, Kingston. Employment and the Sex Ratio in a Two-Sided Model of Marriage, April 2000. Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting, Toronto. The Economics of Abuse, May 1999. John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy Conference on Women and Work, Queen s University, Kingston. The Economics of Abuse, April 1998. INVITED SEMINARS 1999: University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, State University of New York at Buffalo, Queen s University, McMaster University 2000: Concordia University, Dalhousie University, York University, University of Toronto, University of Kentucky, Tulane University, State University 4
of New York at Albany, State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of Colorado at Denver, University of Alberta, Université Laval, University of Calgary 2001: University of Virginia 2002: University of Quebec at Montreal, Duke University, McGill University, University of Maryland, Maryland Population Research Center, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 5