Meet the Economists

Douglas A. Webber
Senior Economist
Consumer and Community Research Section
Consumer and Community Affairs
202-452-2079
[email protected]
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Education
- Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University, 2012
- M.A., Economics, Cornell University, 2010
- B.A., Economics, University of Florida, 2007
- B.S., Mathematics, University of Florida, 2007
Current Research Topics
- Economics of Education
- Education Finance
Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2022 - presentAssociate Professor
Temple University, Department of Economics
2017 - 2021Assistant Professor
Temple University, Department of Economics
2012 - 2017
- Non-Completion, Student Debt, and Financial Well-Being: Evidence from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
Jacob Lockwood and Douglas Webber
FEDS Notes (2023)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3371 - Affording Degree Completion: An Experimental Study of Completion Grants at Accessible Public Universities
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christine Baker-Smith, Travis T. York, Kallie Clark, Douglas Webber, and Christel Perkins
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.047 - College Networks and Re-employment of Displaced Workers
Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan, and Douglas Webber
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.043 - Losing insurance and psychiatric hospitalizations
Johanna Catherine Maclean, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, and Douglas Webber
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.11.001
See also » FRB Working Paper (2022) - Losing insurance and psychiatric hospitalizations
Johanna Catherine Maclean, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, and Douglas Webber
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2022)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2022.069 - Government regulation and wages: Evidence from continuing coverage mandates
Johanna Catherine Maclean and Douglas Webber
Labour Economics (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102236 - Decomposing Changes in Higher Education Return on Investment Over Time
Douglas Webber
FEDS Notes (2022)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3155 - Labor Market Competition and Employment Adjustment over the Business Cycle
Douglas A. Webber
Journal of Human Resources (2022)
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.monopsony.0119-9954R1 - A Growing Divide: The Promise and Pitfalls of Higher Education for the Working Class
Douglas A. Webber
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162211026199 - The Emergence of Income-Share Agreements
Dubravka Ritter and Douglas Webber
Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships are Advancing Economic Mobility (2021) - The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies
Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan, and Douglas Webber
Journal of Labor Economics (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1086/696204 - Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and Firm Size Distribution
James Bailey and Douglas Webber
Journal of Risk and Insurance (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12164 - Higher ed, lower spending: As states cut back, where has the money gone?
Douglas Webber
Education Next (2018) - Immigration and Access to Fringe Benefits: Evidence from the Tobacco Use Supplements
Johanna Catherine Maclean, Douglas Webber, and Jody L. Sindelar
Industrial Relations (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12205 - Examining the Interstate Mobility of Recent College Graduates
Robert Kelchen and Douglas A. Webber
Educational Researcher (2018)
https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X17753124 - The impact of mass layoffs on the educational investments of working college students
Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan, and Doug Webber
Labour Economics (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.008 - The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data
Christian Neumeier, Todd Sørensen, and Douglas Webber
Southern Economic Journal (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12239 - State divestment and tuition at public institutions
Douglas A. Webber
Economics of Education Review (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.07.007 - The political roots of health insurance benefit mandates
James Bailey and Douglas Webber
Journal of Economic Studies (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-07-2015-0137 - Risk-sharing and student loan policy: Consequences for students and institutions
Douglas A. Webber
Economics of Education Review (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.12.007 - High school experiences, the gender wage gap, and the selection of occupation
Michael R. Strain and Douglas A. Webber
Applied Economics (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1299100 - Are college costs worth it? How ability, major, and debt affect the returns to schooling
Douglas A. Webber
Economics of Education Review (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.04.007 - Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap
Douglas A. Webber
Industrial Relations (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12142 - Firm market power and the earnings distribution
Douglas A. Webber
Labour Economics (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2015.05.003 - The Health Consequences of Adverse Labor Market Events: Evidence from Panel Data
Johanna Catherine Maclean, Douglas A. Webber, Michael T. French, and Susan L. Ettner
Industrial Relations (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12099 - The Impact of Work-Limiting Disability on Labor Force Participation
Douglas A. Webber and Melissa J. Bjelland
Health Economics (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3020 - Workplace problems, mental health and substance use
Johanna Catherine Maclean, Douglas Webber, and Michael T. French
Applied Economics (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2014.982856 - Is the return to education the same for everybody?
Douglas Webber
IZA World of Labor (2014)
https://doi.org/10.15185/izawol.92 - The lifetime earnings premia of different majors: Correcting for selection based on cognitive, noncognitive, and unobserved factors
Douglas A. Webber
Labour Economics (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2014.03.009 - An Application of Unconditional Quantile Regression to Cigarette Taxes
Johanna Catherine Maclean, Douglas A. Webber, and Joachim Marti
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.21724 - The Roles of Assimilation and Ethnic Enclave Residence in Immigrant Smoking
Johanna Catherine Maclean, Douglas Webber, and Jody L. Sindelar
NBER Working Paper Series (2013)
https://doi.org/10.3386/w19753 - Expenditures and postsecondary graduation: An investigation using individual-level data from the state of Ohio
Douglas A. Webber
Economics of Education Review (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.02.003 - Job loss and effects on firms and workers
Kevin F. Hallock, Michael R. Strain, and Douglas Webber
Downsizing: Is Less Still More? (2012) - Age and Disability Employment Discrimination: Occupational Rehabilitation Implications
Melissa J. Bjelland, Susanne M. Bruyère, Sarah von Schrader, Andrew J. Houtenville, Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla, and Douglas A. Webber
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-009-9194-z - Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education?
Douglas A. Webber and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Economics of Education Review (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.04.006 - Student Service Expenditures Matter
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Douglas A. Webber
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00091381003704602 - Executive pay and firm performance: methodological considerations and future directions
Beth Florin, Kevin F. Hallock, and Douglas Webber
Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-7301(2010)0000029004 - Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education?
Douglas A. Webber and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
NBER Working Paper Series (2009)
https://doi.org/10.3386/w15216
Conference Organization
October, 2019 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Symposium on Income Share Agreements
Co-Organizer (with Dubravka Ritter)
Editor
- Co-Editor, Economics of Education Review, 2019-Present
- Co-Editor, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017-2020
Last Update:
September 18, 2023