LINDA KAMAS Curriculum Vitae Chair, Department of Economics Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 95053 (408) 554-6950 lkamas@scu.edu Education University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Economics University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., Latin American Studies University of California, Los Angeles, A.B., History Areas of Specialization Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Economic Development, International Economics, Macroeconomics Teaching and Professional Experience Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University, 1995 to present. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University, 1988 to 1995. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, 1982-1987. Visiting Assistant Professor, Board of Studies in Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986-1987. Lecturer, Department of Economics, San Francisco State University, 1980-1981. Courses Taught Economics and Justice; MBA Macroeconomics Theory & Policy; Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory; Gender and Vocation; Principles of Macroeconomics, Latin American Economic Development, International Economics, MBA International Economics
Publications Gender Differences in Economic Policy Views in the U.S., The Importance of Empathy with Anne Preston, accepted, Feminist Economics. Are We Underestimating Inequality Aversion? Comparing Recruited and Classroom Subjects with Anne Preston, Economics Letters v. 147, October 2016, 157-159. Can Social Preferences Explain Gender Differences in Economic Behavior? with Anne Preston. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, v. 116, August 2015, 525-539. The Importance of Being Confident, Gender, Career Choice, and Willingness to Compete with Anne Preston. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, v. 83, n. 1, June 2012, 82-97. Distributive and Reciprocal Fairness: What Can We Learn from the Heterogeneity of Social Preferences? with Anne Preston. Journal of Economic Psychology, v. 33, n. 3, June 2012, 538-553. Gender and Social Preferences in the U.S.; An Experimental Study with Anne Preston. Feminist Economics. v. 18 n. 1, January 2012, 135-160. What Can Social Preferences Tell Us About Charitable Giving? Evidence on Responses to Price of Giving, Matching, and Rebates, with Anne Preston, in R. Mark Issacs and Douglas A. Norton, eds. Charity with Choice, Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 13, Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Group Publishing, 2010, pp. 165-199. Altruism in Individual and Joint-Giving Decisions: What s Gender Got to Do With It? with Sandy Baum and Anne Preston. Feminist Economics, v. 14, n. 3, July 2008, 23-50. Altruistic Responses to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks: Some Evidence from Dictator Games, with Sandy Baum and Anne Preston. Eastern Economic Journal, v. 31, n. 4, Fall 2005, 551-562. Real and Nominal Determinants of Real Exchange Rates in Latin America: Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium," with Joseph Joyce, Journal of Development Studies, v. 39, n. 6, August 2003, 155-182. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Colombia: Effects on the Real Exchange Rate in the 1990s, Journal of Development Studies, v. 38, n. 2, December 2001, 131-166. La importancia relativa de los choques externos y domesticos para la produccion y los precios en Mexico y Colombia, with Joseph Joyce, Ensayos sobre politica economica, v. 31, June 1997, 35-60. Review of Coping with Capital Surges edited by Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Stephany Griffith- Jones, Journal of Economic Literature.
The Relative Importance of Foreign and Domestic Shocks to Output and Prices in Mexico and Colombia, with Joseph Joyce, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, v. 133, n. 3, 1997. "Time, Money, and Optimal Criminal Penalties," with Sandy Baum, Contemporary Economic Policy, October 1995, 72-79. "Monetary Policy and Inflation Under the Crawling Peg, Some Evidence from VARs for Colombia," Journal of Development Economics, v. 46, 1995, 145-161. "Money and Output Under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes in the U.S.," with Joseph Joyce, Journal of International Money and Finance, v. 13 n. 6, 1994, 679-697. "Inflacion y politica monetaria bajo un regimen de minidevaluaciones: el caso colombiano," Ensayos sobre Politica Economica, n, 25, June 1994. "Money, Income, and Prices Under Fixed Exchange Rates: Evidence from Causality Tests and VARs," with Joseph Joyce, Journal of Macroeconomics, v. 15 n. 4, Fall 1993, 747-68. "Devaluation, National Output, and the Trade Balance, Some Evidence from Colombia," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, v. 128 n. 3, 1992, 425-45. "The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Under the Crawling Peg, Some Evidence From Vector Autoregressions for Colombia," International Trade and Finance in the 1990's, Proceedings of the International Trade and Finance Association, Marseille, France, 1991. Review of Patterns of Economic Development in Latin America: Poverty, Repression, and Economic Strategy by John Sheahan, Journal of Economic Literature, v. 27 n. 1, March 1989. "Dutch Disease Economics and the Colombian Export Boom," World Development, v. 14, n. 9, 1986, 1177-98. "The Balance of Payments Offset to Monetary Policy: Monetarist, Portfolio Balance and Keynesian Estimates for Mexico and Venezuela," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, v. 18 n. 4, November 1986, 467-81. "External Disturbances and the Independence of Monetary Policy Under the Crawling Peg in Colombia," Journal of International Economics, v. 19, November 1985, 313-27. Under Review or in Progress: Competing with Confidence: The Ticket to Labor Market Success for College-Educated Women with Anne Preston, revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Does Empathy Explain Gender Differences in Prosocial Behavior in Games? with Anne Preston, under review. Labor Market Earnings; Women at Coed and Single-Sex Colleges, with Anne Preston (in progress) Willingness to Compete and Confidence, Women at Coed and Single-Sex Colleges, with Anne Preston (in progress) Presentations and Working Papers Confidence, Competition, and Earnings; Women at Coed and Single-Sex Colleges, Economic Science Association European Meeting, Bergen, Norway, September 2016. Empathy, Gender, and Games, Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economists Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, May 2016 Empathy, Gender, and Games, Economic Science Association European Meeting, Heidelberg, September 2015. Competing with Confidence: The Ticket to Labor Market Success for College-Educated Women, Economic Science Association World Meeting, Sydney, July 2015. Gender Differences in Public Policy Views; The Importance of Empathy, Economic Science Association European Meeting, Prague, September 2014. Gender Differences in Public Policy Views; The Importance of Empathy, Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economists Workshop, Stanford University, May 2014 Measuring Social Preferences; Does Recruitment with Pecuniary Incentives Matter? Economic Science Association North American Meeting, Santa Cruz, October 2013. Can Behavior in Laboratory Experiments Explain Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes? Willingness to Compete, Confidence, Social Preferences, and Risk Aversion presented presented at the Bay Area Behavioral & Experimental Economics Workshop, University of San Francisco, May 2013. Can Behavior in Laboratory Experiments Explain Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes? Willingness to Compete, Confidence, Social Preferences, and Risk Aversion presented at Economic Science Association North American Meeting, Tucson, November 2012. Can Behavior in Laboratory Experiments Explain Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes? Willingness to Compete, Confidence, Social Preferences, and Risk Aversion presented at Economic Science Association European Meeting, Cologne, September 2012.
Can Social Preferences Explain Gender Differences in Economic Behavior? presented at Bay Area Behavioral & Experimental Economics Workshop, Santa Clara, May 2012 Can Social Preferences Explain Gender Differences in Economic Behavior? presented at the Economic Science Association North American Meeting, Tucson, November 2011. Can Social Preferences Explain Gender Differences in Economic Behavior? presented at the Economic Science Association European Meeting, Luxembourg, September 2011. Vocation and Gender: Seeking Meaning in Work and Life, presented at the College and University Work/Family Association 17 th Annual Conference, San Diego, May 2011. Gender and Behavior presented at meeting of Bay Area Experimental Economists, University of California, Berkeley, May 2011. The Importance of Being Confident; Gender Differences in Willingness to compete, presented at University of San Francisco, November 2010. The Importance of Being Confident; Gender Differences in Willingness to compete, presented at the Economic Science Association North American Meeting, Tucson, AZ, November 2010. Are Women Really Less Willing to Compete Than Men? presented at MOVE Workshop on Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Aversion, Barcelona, September 2010. Measuring Heterogeneous Social Preferences and Their Implications for Economic Behavior presented at meeting of Bay Area Experimental Economists, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2010. Social Preferences, Competitiveness, and Compensation Are there Gender Differences? presented at Santa Clara University, December 2009. Social Preferences, Competitiveness, and Compensation Are there Gender Differences? presented at the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Amsterdam, November 2009. Social Preferences, Competitiveness, and Compensation Are there Gender Differences. presented at Economic Science Association European Meeting, Innsbruck, September 2009. Implications of Heterogeneous Social Preferences for Measuring Distributive and Just Deserts Fairness, presented at the Economic Science Association North American Meeting, Tucson, AZ, November 2008. Implications of Heterogeneous Social Preferences for Measuring Distributive and Just Deserts Fairness, presented at the European Economic Science Association Meeting, Lyon, France, September 2008.
What Can Social Preference Tell Us About Charitable Giving? Evidence on Responses to Price of Giving, Matching, and Rebates, presented at the 4 th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Alicante, Spain, March 2008. What Can Social Preference Tell Us About Charitable Giving? Evidence on Responses to Price of Giving, Matching, and Rebates, presented at Economics Department, Santa Clara University, February 2008. What Can Social Preference Tell Us About Charitable Giving? Evidence on Responses to Price of Giving, Matching, and Rebates, presented at University of San Francisco, November 2007. What Can Social Preference Tell Us About Charitable Giving? Evidence on Responses to Price of Giving, Matching, and Rebates,,presented at the Economic Science Association North American Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 2007. Altruism in Individual and Joint-Giving Decisions: What s Gender Got to Do With It, presented at the Economic Science Association World Meeting, Rome, Italy, June 2007. On Measuring Compassion in Social Preferences; Do Gender, Price of Giving, or Inequality Matter? presented at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 2007. On Measuring Compassion in Social Preferences; Do Gender, Price of Giving, or Inequality Matter? presented at Economic Science Association European Meeting, Nottingham, England, September 2006. Gender and Altruism, presented at Economics Department, Santa Clara University, March 2006. Compassion in Social Preferences, Are There Gender Differences Economic Science Association North American Meeting, Tucson, AZ, September 2005. A Note on Motivations for Charitable Donations, Evidence from Survey Data. with Anne Preston, Working Paper, 2005. Do Men and Women Have Different Preferences for Charitable Giving? with Anne Preston, Working Paper, 2004. Can Women Teach Men to be Less Selfish? Working Paper, 2001. Latin American Debt presented Santa Clara University, March 2000. Real and Nominal Determinants of Real Exchange Rates in Latin America: Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium," presented at the Latin America and Carribbean Economic Association Meeting, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, October 1997.
"Monetary and Exchange Rate Effects on Inflation in Latin America," presented at the Latin America and Carribbean Economic Association Meeting in Mexico City, October 1996. Real and Nominal Determinants of Real Exchange Rates in Latin America: Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium," presented at the Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Rio de Janeiro, August 1996. "The Real Exchange Rate in Colombia," with Joseph Joyce, presented at the American Economic Association Meeting, San Francisco, January 1996. "Monetary and Exchange Rate Effects on Inflation in Colombia, Implications for the Effectiveness of Nominal Anchors," presented at the Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, November 1995. "The International Transmission of Monetary and Real Shocks: Evidence from Mexico and Colombia,", presented at the Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Caracas, Venezuela, August 1994. "The Transmission of Real and Nominal Shocks Between the U.S. and Mexico," presented at the North American Economics and Finance Association Meeting held with the Allied Social Science Meeting, Boston, January 1994. Money and Output Under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes in the U.S.," presented at the Econometric Society European Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1993. Money and Output Under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes in the U.S.," presented at the North American Economics and Finance Association Meeting held with the Allied Social Science Meeting, Anaheim, January 1993. "Justice, Time, and Money," with Sandra Baum, presented at the American Economic Association Meeting, Anaheim, January 1993. "Monetary Policy and Inflation Under the Crawling Peg, Some Evidence from VARs for Colombia," presented at the Econometric Society European Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, August 1992. "The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Under the Crawling Peg, Some Evidence From Vector Autoregressions for Colombia," presented at the International Trade and Finance Association Meeting, Marseille, France, May-June 1991. "Money, Income, and Prices Under Fixed Exchange Rates: Evidence from Causality Tests and VARs," presented at the Western Economic Association Meeting, Seattle, July 1991. "Further Evidence on Contractionary Devaluation, Cointegration and Vector Autoregressions," presented at the Western Economic Association Meeting, San Diego, July 1990.
"Devaluation, National Output, and the Trade Balance, Some Evidence from Colombia," presented at the Western Economic Association Meeting, Lake Tahoe, June 1989. "Oil Exports and Government Policy in Mexico, The Performance of Traded and Nontraded Sectors," with Alvaro Sanchez, March 1988; presented at the Western Economic Association Meeting, Los Angeles, July 1988. "Money, Investment and Aggregate Supply, Some Econometric Evidence from Colombia," Working Paper n. 112, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, July 1986. "Money, Income, Prices and the Balance of Payments: Casual Tests for Developing Countries," presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings, San Francisco, July 1986. "Dutch Disease Economics and the Colombian Export Boom," presented at the Western Economic Association Meeting, Anaheim, July 1985. "External Disturbances and the Independence of Monetary Policy Under the Crawling Peg in Colombia," presented at the Econometric Society Meeting, San Francisco, December 1983. Awards and Grants Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant, 2012-2015 Leavey Research Grants, numerous years Leavey School of Business, exceptional service award, numerous years Santa Clara University Research Grants, various years Breetwor Fellow, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, 2006-2008. Sisterhood is Powerful Award, Outstanding Contribution in Improving the Status of Women, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Santa Clara University, June 2000 Postdoctoral Research Grant, Social Science Research Council, 1985-86. Travel Grant, Latin American Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1981. M.A. with Honors, University of California, Los Angeles, 1975 Other Speak, read and write Spanish fluently.