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Dr. James F. Ragan,
Jr.
Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis), 1975
Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Public Policy
Homepage, E-mail:
jfrjr@ksu.edu
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Ragan is
Professor of Economics. Previously, he was employed as
a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a visiting
scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and a visiting
associate professor at Washington University. He served 14 years as Department Head at Kansas State University and, prior to that, as Director of Graduate Studies.
His
research has appeared in such journals as
Review
of Economics and Statistics, Economic Inquiry,
Journal of Labor Economics,
Journal of Human Resources,
Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
and
Southern Economic Journal. In
addition, he and Lloyd Thomas are authors of
Principles of Economics,
second edition (Harcourt Brace). Ragan
has presented papers before the National Commission on Youth, the
Conference on U.S. Productive Capacity, the National Commission for
Employment Policy, and the American Enterprise Institute Conference on
Legal Minimum Wages. His work has been cited in such publications as The Wall Street Journal,
Business Week,
and
U.S. News & World Report.
His current
research projects include the returns to education of Arab
immigrants, the baseball labor market, dual-career faculty couples, and monopsony power in
academia.
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