Academics
Robert J. Lemke
Associate Professor
Economics and Business
Phone 847-735-5143
E-mail lemke@lakeforest.edu
Web http://campus.lakeforest.edu/~lemke/
Specializations
Public Policy
Labor
Industrial Organization
Economic Theory
Interests Education Courses Frequently Taught Publications
Bargaining
Baseball
Education Policy
Taxation
Voting
Welfare Reform
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
B.A., St. Olaf College (Honors in Economics and Mathematics)
ECON 180: Quantitative Methods
ECON 210: Microeconomic Theory
ECON 310: Industrial Organization
ECON 320: Labor Economics
ECON 330: Econometrics
ECON 385: Mathematical Economics
Estimating Attendance at Major League Baseball Games for the 2007 Season, Journal of Sports Economics, with Matt Leonard ('11) and Kelly Tlhokwane ('11), forthcoming..
Freedom and Transparency: Democracies, Non-Democracies, and Conventional Arms Transfers, Democracy and Security, with James Marquardt, Vol. 3(3), 2007, pp.343-368.
Extending Monopoly Power under Joint Production: A Case Study of the Red Cross and the Blood Centers of America, Journal of Industrial Organization Education, with Kristina Lybecker, Vol. 2(1), 2007, pp. 1-23. The Transition from Welfare to Work, Eastern Economic Journal, with Rob Witt and Ann Witte, Vol. 33(2), Summer 2007, pp. 359-373. When Winning is the Only Thing: Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria in a Three Candidate Spatial Voting Model, Social Choice and Welfare, with Richard A. Chisik, Vol. 26(1), 2006, pp. 209-215.
Can No Child Left Behind Close the Gaps in Pass Rates on Standardized Tests?, Contemporary Economic Policy, with Claus Hoerandner ('06), Vol. 24(1), January 2006, pp. 1-17.
Do Estate and Gift Taxes Affect the Timing of Private Transfers?, Journal of Public Economics, with B. Douglas Bernheim and John Karl Scholz, Vol. 88(12), December 2004, pp. 2617-1634.
Dynamic Bargaining with Action-Dependent Valuations, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 28(9), July 2004, pp. 1847-1875.
Estimating the Union Wage Effect for Public School Teachers when all Teachers are Unionized, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 30(2), Spring 2004, pp. 273-291.
Skill, Parental Income, and IV Estimation of the Returns to Schooling, Applied Economics Letters, with Isaac Rischall, Vol. 10(5), April 2003, pp. 281-286.
Inter-firm Complementarity in R&D: A Re-examination of the Relative Performance of Joint Ventures, International Journal of Industrial Organization, with Nejat Anbarci and Santanu Roy, Vol. 20(2), February 2002, pp. 191-213.
College and Community Talks
How Timing Affects Games, Clockwise Senior Seminar, Lake Forest High School, March 2007, April 2009.
Re-Thinking the Incentives and Financial Consequences of No Child Left Behind, Faculty Luncheon Discussion Group, October 2005.
Beyond the B.A., Career Advancement Center, Lake Forest College, September 2005.
Election 2004, Student Forum, Lake Forest College, October 2004.
Great Books that have Influenced My Life, Faculty Symposium, Lake Forest College, October 2004.
Invited Talks
Estimating Attendance at Major League Baseball Games for the 2007 Season (Florida International University, April 2009; University of South Carolina, April 2009).
Accounting for the Differences in Ph.D. Creation Rates Across Liberal Arts Colleges (Cornell University, October 2006).
Can No Child Left Behind Close the Gaps in Pass Rates on Standardized Tests? (Western Michigan University, September 2004).
Student Assessments, Non-Test-Takers, and School Accountability. (Surrey University, Guildford, England, August 2004; Loyola University Chicago, February 2004).
Do Estate and Gift Taxes Affect the Timing of Private Transfers? (Kenyon College, February 2002; Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury, February 2002; Ohio University, January 2002).
Inter-firm Complementarity in R&D: A Re-examination of the Relative Performance of Joint Ventures (Duke University, November 1999).
Repeated Bargaining with State-Dependent Private Valuations (Florida International University, January 2009; University of South Carolina, January 2009).
Conference Presentations
Estate Tax Changes and Inter Vivos Transfers. (Midwest Economics Association, Cleveland, March 2001.)
Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition: A Longitudinal View July 1996 - August 1997. (NBER Public Economics Summer 2000 Program, presented by Ann D. Witte.)
Optimal Price Paths Under Dynamic Bargaining. (Econometric Society 1999 North American Summer Meetings, Madison, June 1999.)
R&D Synergies with Research Joint Ventures. (Midwest Economics Association, Nashville, March 1999.)
The Size and Distribution of Union Rents for Public School Teachers. (Econometric Society Winter Meetings, New York, January 1999; Midwest Economics Association, Chicago, March 1998.)
Awards and Honors (Selected)
Work and Leisure in Japan, Travel Grant with GLCA and Japan Foundation New York, Spring 2009.
Travel Grant to Budapest, Global Partners Project, Associated Colleges of teh Midwest, June 2005.
William L. Dunn Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarly Promise, Lake Forest College, May 2005.
Visiting Scholar, Surrey University, Guildford, England, August 2004.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Florida International University, Spring 2001.
Provost Summer Research Award, Florida International University, Summer 2000.
Christensen Dissertation Award, with John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, 1996-1997.
WARF Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1996-1997.
Bullis Scholarship, University of Wisconsin, 1992-1993.
Phi Beta Kappa, St. Olaf College, 1992.